Ten years ago today (5/27/26), Architects released their seventh album All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us, The album emerged under heartbreaking circumstances, as guitarist and chief songwriter Tom Searle was privately battling terminal cancer throughout its creation. Just months after its release, Searle passed away, forever reshaping the way the record is heard. What first appears to be an explosive outpouring of anger toward politics, religion, and societal decay gradually reveals itself as something far more personal — the sound of a man confronting his own mortality head-on. Today, it’s one of the defining records of 2010s metalcore and has influenced many since. Check out the band in the studio talking about the making of the album..