Architects: Holy Hell review – addressing tragedy with gravity and defiance

(Epitaph)In 2016, Brighton metalcore giants Architects were sent reeling when founder guitarist and songwriter, Tom Searle – brother of drummer Dan – died of skin cancer, aged just 28. Two years on, the surviving sibling describes the regrouped band’s eighth album (the first since the tragedy) as being “about pain: the way we process, it, cope with it and live with it”. However, rather than succumb to understandable despair, the album comes hurtling out of the traps