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Just added to Basick’s exciting summer release lineup is the new album by Peterborough progressive metallers Visions, entitled Home.

Visions just recently supported Manure Emmure, along with iwrestledabearonce (pre-black metal era), War From A Harlot’s Mouth and Winds of Plague, and whilst I wouldn’t have stayed beyond about nine o’clock at one of those shows, it’s good for interesting bands such as these guys to get on tours like this and school all the bros in the audience. To their credit, they’ve also shared a stage with the likes of The Arusha Accord and Sylosis, which probably gives a better idea of their quality.

Even more exciting, the album was produced by John Browne and Neema Askari of Monuments, and the stunning artwork is by John Barmby, who also did the work for Architects‘ latest (which definitely wasn’t the most terrible thing about that album) as well as Devil Sold His Soul‘s Blessed & Cursed, which is awesome.

Track 7, “Home” has been made available for streaming on Basick’s Soundcloud, or you can just stream it here, ennit?

VISIONS – Oceans by basickrecords

Catch the rest of the tracklisting after the jump, as well as the release date (I’ll give you a clue: it’s some time between July 17th and 19th)!

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Architects – The Here and Now

Architects

The Here and Now

01. Day In Day Out
02. Learn To Live
03. Delete, Rewind
04. BTN
05. An Open Letter To Myself
06. The Blues
07. Red Eyes
08. Stay Young Forever
09. Heartburn
10. Year In Year Out/Up and Away

[01/25/11]
[Century Media]

As the years have passed since the release of their first album Nightmares in 2006, Architects have only become stronger, and are now one of the best-known young British metal acts, both here and across the globe. 2009′s Hollow Crown showed an incredible level of maturity compared to their previous work; songs like ‘Early Grave‘ and ‘Follow the Water‘ became instant classics amongst their fans.

It was always going to be hard to top it – that much is undeniable – and as promo tracks became available towards the end of last year, and word spread that the boys were to drop the more technical elements of their sound, unfortunately we weren’t terribly optimistic.

Despite this information, perhaps it wouldn’t be fair to judge The Here and Now entirely on what has come before. Vocalist Sam Carter clearly stated in an interview with Thrash hits that technical music is “just not what we want to write anymore”. A big disappointment for some I’m sure, but does that make it a bad album?

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Well, sorta. As I’m writing this (at 3:45 AM), the songs are up but not available for playback. I didn’t happen to just stumble upon their Myspace this late at night, it was the record label posting on Facebook that it’s available! Strange, but I hope by the time this article goes up that it’s available. If not, keep your eyes peeled on the pageĀ right here.

Nevertheless, hate it or enjoy it! I’ll certainly be chipping in my thoughts of it in the comments section of our review [which is up later today! Ed.]. Have a good week, everyone!

UPDATE: The songs are indeed up and you can listen to them!

- MK

So word on the street is there’s a new Architects album out this month. Same word calls it The Here and Now – and right here and now, if you’re interested, you can listen to track 3 ‘Delete, Rewind’ on their Facebook, as well as previously previewed tracks ‘Day In Day Out‘ and ‘Learn To Live‘ – which is basically the first 30%!

We have actually heard it, and as expected it’s…different. They’ve dropped a lot of the techier aspects that we’re used to, but Sam Carter reckons we should have seen it coming. We’ll have a review for you soon at any rate.

Anyway, ‘Delete, Rewind‘ is more like their older stuff, so it’s as good a starting point as any if you haven’t already!

The Here and Now is out January 19th on Century Media.

- CG

So here’s the new Norma Jean Architects artwork. It looks better than Hollow Crown but my spidey senses are telling me the actual music won’t. As for the tracklisting:

1. Day In Day Out
2. Learn To Live
3. Delete, Rewind.
4. BTN
5. An Open Letter To Myself
6. The Blues
7. Red Eyes
8. Stay Young Forever
9. Heartburn
10. Year In Year Out / Up And Away

Well, there isn’t much to take away from that because Architects’ track names always suck, but whatever.

The Here and Now is set for January 24th 2011 on Century Media.

-MK

Following yesterday’s announcement of the release date for Architects’ upcoming album The Here And Now, they have today premiered the promo video for ‘Day In, Day Out‘ on Altpress.com

Not much smiling going on there then, eh? I hate to be a naysayer, but I hope the glum visages don’t foreshadow my face when the album drops.

- CG

The Here and Now, Architects‘ forthcoming album, has been given an official release date: January 24th in Europe, 25th in North America on Century Media Records. This is slightly sooner than I though, but I’m not actually that excited at the moment, having been turned off firstly by the promo track they posted (talk about a significant turn-around in musical aesthetics), and secondly by the news that the whole album would reportedly be like this. Still, they’ve made some good stuff so far, so I’m not going to write it off until I’ve heard it.

As is now spectacularly commonplace, the band have begun a webisode series leading up to the release. Part one will come into view if thou scrollest down’ards.

Someone needs to fix the levels on that video; Andrew Neufeld (Comeback Kid, lol) sounds way too quiet in comparison to the music.

No doubt we’ll post the rest of these as and when they become available.

- CG

Bring Me The Horizon

Hell/Heaven

01. Crucify Me
02. Anthem
03. It Never Ends
04. Fuck
05. Don’t Go
06. Home Sweet Hole
07. Alligator Blood
08. Visions
09. Blacklist
10. Memorial
11. Blessed With A Curse
12. Fox And The Wolf

[Epitaph | 10/15/10]

Metalheads everywhere cringe at the thought of Bring Me The Horizon, and with good reason. Looking at them and their fanbase, it’s the epitome of scene kids infiltrating our precious metals. Their vocalist Oli Sykes is the biggest twat ever; even looking at him can throw me into a fit of rage. And not only that, their music was just terrible deathcore.

Despite the terrible connotations associated with the band, The Number Of The Blog’s Quigs Quigley was tenacious in his defense of Bring Me The Horizon’s latest album Hell/Heaven (I refuse to type that whole long and pretentious title more than once) is actually pretty good. After putting it off for some time, I finally caved and gave it a listen, and it was surprising. Hell/Heaven is actually not bad at all.

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Best of British: Architects

I’m feeling really fucking lazy, so here’s my lazy post for the week.

Architects. You all know them. This is a sick tune. See you tomorrow.

- CG

"America Or Bust"

Oh wait, nevermind. That’s just the new, watered down version of Architects. I’ve skewered this song before, but now the band are streaming the song on MySpace.

While I have to admit the song is catchy as fuck, it marks the decline in quality in the band’s career in an attempt to gain a higher international audience, and of course, more money. Hollow Crown was great in its sort-of-proggy song structure where the odd chorus was saved for later and played maybe once or twice for effect and then threw a bunch of riffs and odd time signatures. This seems like an attempt to appeal to a more mainstream audience. The song’s good and everything… but it’s just not Architects good.

I’ve said my piece. You can judge for yourself over at the band’s myspace. You can either back me up on this or tell me how much of an idiot I am in the comments section. I want to get everyone’s opinion on this one.

- JR

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