Architects (British Band) - Musical Style

Musical Style

Architects have been summarised as being "pumped with both controlled rage and unhindered heart, accessible and ambitious, aggressive and beautiful". Considered alongside Enter Shikari as offering metalcore style to more mainstream audiences they have been called by various critics as Metalcore, mathcore, post-hardcore, progressive metal, post-metalcore and technical metal. Their music is considered as having choppy, complex guitar riffs, the use of obscure time signatures and rhythmic breakdowns, and for their guitarists swapping between a "down-tuned rumble" and "melodic punk" during songs. However the band's music isn't solely been based upon technicality and does use catchy riffs and choruses.

Vocally Carter is seen by few as having a coarse and "tortured" screaming style and implements melodic singing to counter this. With the addition of Carter on to the band's line-up the band always aimed to use more of Carter's singing as the band developed, regardless of the reaction from fans. Carter's aggressive vocals have also been compared to British metalcore contemporary Oliver Sykes of Bring Me The Horizon and his "raspy-yelling" vocals, as well as being compared to Glassjaw's vocalist Daryl Palumbo.

The band's influence have been seen as being as diverse as Meshuggah, Converge, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Hatebreed and Shadows Fall. Rock Sound Kevin Stewart-Panko writer sees the band as a "metal/hardcore outfit influenced by Meshuggah’s low-end guitar lurch, the throat-shredding howl of Converge’s Jake Bannon, The Dillinger Escape Plan’s staccato one-two rhythms and breakdowns from the state of Massachusetts is its own mystery." Alter the Press! writer Selina Christoforou considered the band drawing on "the template drawn out by genre-defining bands, such as The Dillinger Escape Plan, Botch, and Coalesce". The band is seen as being influenced by noise rock and math rock.