{"product_id":"holy-hell-national-album-day-2025","title":"Holy Hell - National Album Day 2025","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHoly Hell \u003c\/em\u003emarks the band's first release since the untimely passing of Tom Searle, Architect's founding guitarist, principal songwriter and twin brother to drummer Dan. \"In those first months after Tom's death, I didn't deal with it at all and I felt so unhappy and anxious,\" Dan explains. \"I'd ignored it and just tried to cope. But I knew that at some point, I had to learn from it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\"It's at times like that you ask yourself, 'What is left?'\" adds vocalist Sam Carter. \"As a group of friends, we had to find something.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\"Ultimately, there were two choices,\" Dan says. \"Feel sorry for yourself, and believe the world to be a horrible place and let it defeat you. Or let it inspire us to live the life that Tom would have wanted us to live. I was very worried about people taking away a despondent message from the album. I felt a level of responsibility to provide a light at the end of the tunnel for people who are going through terrible experiences.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFinding a way forward, the band spent six months from the Fall of 2017 through the Spring of this year recording what would become the 11-song album, with Dan and guitar player Josh Middleton handling production. \"For me, broadly speaking \u003cem\u003eHoly Hell \u003c\/em\u003eis about pain: the way we process it, cope with it, and live with it,\" Dan offers. \"There is value in pain. It's where we learn, it's where we grow.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Epitaph","offers":[{"title":"LP - Bloody Mary","offer_id":53327760195915,"sku":"R3002-5097","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2000x2000bb_a95baea6-18a0-4273-9682-923610716c69.jpg?v=1757161666","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/holy-hell-national-album-day-2025","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}