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}} ''Lost Forever // Lost Together'' is the sixth studio album by British metalcore band Architects, released on 11 March 2014 globally through Epitaph Records; with the exception of UNFD in Australia and New Damage in Canada. Similar to their previous album, ''Daybreaker'', ''Lost Forever // Lost Together'' is a decisive distancing from their fourth studio album, ''The Here and Now'' (2011), bringing Architects back to their metal roots. ''Lost Forever // Lost Together'' was recorded at Swedish recording studio Studio Fredman with producers Henrik Udd and Fredrik Nordström. They were chosen because of Architects' admiration for the production work Nordström and Udd had done with other metal bands like Bring Me the Horizon and At The Gates. In a conscious decision to not mimic the bluntly political themes of ''Daybreaker'', Architects lyricist Tom Searle wrote about his experiences with cancer, though he still looked at the themes of environmentalism, religious extremism and current affairs. Musically, the band put more focus on post-rock influenced spacey elements and the use of orchestration. Upon its release, ''Lost Forever // Lost Together'' received critical acclaim from critics, achieving an aggregated 81/100 on Metacritic, based on 6 reviews.〔 The album also charted in six countries' mainstream album charts, four of which it achieved places within the top 40. The band has released two singles in promotion for the record, "Naysayer" and "Broken Cross", with the former debuting at number 3 on the UK Rock Chart, and have also released a music video for "Gravedigger". The band has also promoted the album through shows in Europe, North America and Australasia. ==Background== With the recording of ''Lost Forever // Lost Together'', the band hoped to "once and for all" distance themselves from the "car crash" that was their 2011 album ''The Here and Now''.〔 The music featured on ''The Here and Now'' was a drastic sonic change from their 2009 third album ''Hollow Crown''s "technical metalcore", not only due to the band trying not to produce the same album again, but also due to the influence of the softer, more melodic music they were listening to at the time. The band members have treated the three-year period between 2011 and 2014 as one of discovery of the band's identity and values. There had been a strong negative backlash to the sound of ''The Here and Now'' within their fanbase and the music scene, and this negativity started to have an effect on the members. Vocalist Sam Carter noted how he was going to pubs alone and drinking heavily, and this led to the rest of the band giving him an intervention. Carter had also noted how their live shows were not as good as they used to be; now incorporating ''The Here and Now''s ballads, they felt the shows had become less violent and intense. However, with the success of 2012's ''Daybreaker'', however, the band felt they had more excitement for playing heavy music again,〔 as ''Daybreaker'' saw a shift back to their original sound. In 2012, during the band's 'Almost World Tour' guitarist Tom Searle noticed a mole on his leg which irritated him, he then had it checked out, cleared as non-cancerous and removed at the end of the tour once returning home. And a few weeks after its removal he was contacted by doctors as having Melanoma skin cancer. In 2013 the band left their old record label Century Media and decided to release a documentary about their tour experiences, One Hundred Days: The Story Of Architects Almost World Tour, through a crowd-funding campaign on indiegogo. The campaign was a success and achieved £10,000 above their target of £30,000. All these experiences with Cancer, the world tour and the success of their documentary had a greatly positive effect on the band members and grew grateful for their achieved level. Later on in the year it was announced that the band had established record deals with Epitaph Records in the United States and Europe, UNFD in Australia and New Damage Records.〔 After their split from Century Media, the band told their management that they were only interested in signing to Epitaph and none others, due to having bands that they look up to, like Every Time I Die and Converge.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lost Forever // Lost Together」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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