Hold onto your neck braces and prepare your eardrums for the glorious return of the UK’s finest architects of chaos, ARCHITECTS! 🏗️💥 The metallic masterminds are finally crossing the pond again in 2026 for a North American headline tour that promises to be heavier than your mom’s “meatloaf Monday” casserole. Kicking off in the dusty gambler’s paradise of Reno, Nevada on April 28, this sonic assault features support from the holy water itself, HOLYWATR (hopefully they brought towels), with pit stops at the legendary Welcome To Rockville and Sonic Temple festivals. 🏛️🔥 Mark your calendars, set your alarms, and prepare to fight bots for tickets like it’s the Hunger Games, because the artist presale starts today at 2 p.m. local time. If you miss that, there are more presales throughout the week to tease your wallet, followed by the general public sale on Friday, January 23 at 10 a.m. local time. 💸📉
In the meantime, while we wait for the mosh pits to open up, the band has dropped the official music video for their single “Broken Mirror”. 🪞 This track is so powerful and infectious, you might need a shot after listening. It showcases ARCHITECTS at their most dynamic, ebbing and flowing like a confused tide. One minute, frontman Sam Carter is whispering sweet nothings in those “delicate verses,” showing off a vocal range that could probably shatter glass (and relationships). The next minute, you’re hit with a soaring, hard-hitting chorus that leans into the band’s trademark heaviness—perfect for screaming along while your boss thinks you’re working. It’s designed for massive sing-alongs, balancing vulnerability and force, which is just a fancy way of saying “cry into your beer, then headbang until your neck snaps.” 🤘😭
Directed by Jensen Noen (the genius behind the nearly eight-million-view masterpiece “Black Hole”), the “Broken Mirror” video is basically a Hollywood blockbuster on a budget. It plays out like a dark, cinematic fever dream where Carter decides to join a militia and undergoes “brutal training.” 🪖💣 Who knew screaming about emotional trauma required so many push-ups? The narrative builds toward a tense firefight that supposedly mirrors the song’s emotional intensity, but mostly it just mirrors the fact that metal videos love explosions and tactical gear. Gritty, moody, and visually arresting, the video balances raw vulnerability with explosive action, which is a nice way of saying “Sam cries while holding a gun.” 🎬🔥
This release comes hot on the heels of ARCHITECTS scoring their first-ever No. 1 at U.S. Active Rock Radio with “Everything Ends”—a title that ironically did not end everything. 📻🏆 Now, “Broken Mirror” is crashing the party at the format, continuing the band’s unstoppable momentum in the U.S. The success of “Everything Ends” also snagged the band a “Best New Artist (Rock)” nomination at the 2026 iHeartRadio Awards. 📱🏆 “Best New Artist”? Really? After eleven albums? Sure, why not. Both tracks are shoved onto their eleventh studio album, “The Sky, The Earth & All Between” (Epitaph Records), which has miraculously surpassed 90,000 album units sold. 📈 It’s a defining chapter, apparently, proving that metal is still alive and well, provided you scream loud enough.
Speaking of loud, the album was produced by Jordan Fish (BRING ME THE HORIZON, POPPY, HOUSE OF PROTECTION), a man who clearly knows how to make a lot of noise. 🎛️ The critics are losing their minds over it. Loudwire called it one of the Best Albums of 2025, dubbing it a “no-skip listen”—which is the highest compliment you can give a record in the streaming era. Kerrang! praised the band for delivering “both quality and quantity” eleven albums in, basically saying they are the Duracell batteries of metal. Meanwhile, Metal Hammer got poetic, noting the record has the “stadium-metal ambitions” of their previous work mixed with some of the “heaviest and straight-up angriest music” they’ve made in years. They called it “a record that fans of every era could love,” which is music journalist code for “please buy this, we need the clicks.” 📉🤘
It’s a long way from their humble beginnings playing pub shows in Brighton to sharing stadium stages with METALLICA and LINKIN PARK. 🏟️ ARCHITECTS have consistently pushed the boundaries of heavy music, mostly by pushing them right off the cliff. “The Sky, The Earth & All Between” represents a “bold evolution,” fusing ferocious energy with intricate melodies (and probably some screaming). After running around screaming at crowds all through 2025, the band is now gearing up for dates across Europe and North America, because nothing says “relaxation” like a tour bus and lukewarm beer. 🚌🍺
So, for those of you ready to lose your hearing and sacrifice your spine, here is the list of dates you need to spam your friends with:
Apr 28 – Grand Theatre – Reno, NV (The dry heat won’t save you)
Apr 29 – House of Blues – Las Vegas, NV (Lose money gambling, then lose your voice)
May 02 – Revel – Albuquerque, NM (Breaking Bad meets Breaking Wind)
May 04 – Stubb’s – Austin, TX (Keep it weird, keep it loud)
May 05 – Concrete Street – Corpus Christi, TX (Bring sunscreen)
May 07 – Iron City – Birmingham, AL (Iron sounds heavy, right?)
May 08 – The Ritz – Raleigh, NC (No fancy crackers, just fancy riffs)
May 10 – Welcome To Rockville – Daytona Beach, FL* (Beach bodies? No. Mosh bodies? Yes.)
May 12 – The Hawthorn – St. Louis, MO
May 14 – Eagles Ballroom – Milwaukee, WI (Eagle screech included)
May 15 – Egyptian Room – Indianapolis, IN (Pyramids not included)
May 16 – Sonic Temple – Columbus, OH* (Worship the noise)
* Festival (Translation: Lots of walking to stand in a field)
Chord F. Discord, the Beethoven of Buffoonery, is a self-taught expert in music who once claimed he could “play the kazoo in four languages.”
Born in Crescendo, Indiana, Chord’s first brush with fame came when he accidentally entered a yodeling contest thinking it was a pie-eating competition—and won both categories.
Chord F. Discord: proving that laughter, much like a poorly tuned ukulele, is truly universal.
