Architects biography

There Are No Tracks in this Playlist Yet 11 Tracks, will the question be logical-are there any other uncovered gestalt after the final of the last record? There are two answers. There are no questions for dead. For the living, there were even more. Dan Sirl, the drummer and founder of the group, watched Tom’s struggle from the very beginning, leaving no attempts to help his brother until Tom made several important decisions for himself.

After this moment, Dan became a more spiritual support for his brother. Being the closest person for Tom, he shared his suffering. When the moment of the last separation nevertheless came, Dan needed a lot to think for himself and find the way that would help him soften this pain. The solution was the spelling of songs. Dan, who had never been so close to this, had to study the poems, had to study many sketches of his brother, and also look at the songs from a new angle, which were already released by the group.

In particular, those that belonged to the last album, because it was in them that the catalyst was covered, which would launch the formation of the meaning of the future album. It was decided to produce the album on its own in order to exclude the influence of producers who are not particularly dedicated to the internal tragedy of the group. Also, the creation of tracks used a lot of instrumental Democom Tom, along with some verses.

The group deliberately refused to call the tracks in which Tom’s legacy was used, emphasizing that its heritage is the whole album. As a result, on November 9th, the world heard Holy Hell. Dan Syrla's exam as a new ideological inspirer Architecs. And he immediately covers the listener with the first goosebumps, because “Death is not Defeat” is not only lyrically, but also musically continues the interchange of the previous full -format work - the track “Mempento Mori”, where Tom Syrl shared his final revelation.

Two -thirds of the trilogy open the songs that are extremely angry in emotions, but “Death is not Defeat” meets the group fans with sorrow and humility, where there is simply no place for anger. The same words that Tom used, Dan wants to let through the moment of experiences through himself, which were the most important for his brother. He understands that death was not a defeat for Tom, but rather transformed its existence into a new form.

The same outcome will once overtake Dan, so he is not afraid to repeat all those words that his twin pronounced. Questions that Dan simply did not know who to address, resulted in the texts of the songs. The speedometer of Dan's muzzle thoughts and the drummer switches attention to her only volume words. Now you are finally completed. I will meet you where the oceans are united.

Where the past merges with the present, and the light will come down with darkness. As ABOVE, So BELOW. AS whenhin, so will. Death is not a defeat, but simply a feature, a transition. Dan believes that one day he will meet his brother again, when the universe for this will take the right time. But now he needs to learn how to live without a brother. It is inclined to think that the track opens from a small times, showing us Dan, who is already at a new stage in personal grief.

After all, the oceans of his suffering have dried up, and with some skepticism Dan asks the question-can he finally rise to fresh air? Because all this time he fought to accept his loss. And now it seems to him that he is fighting with broken bones. The metaphor with the oceans is likely to refers us to the period when Dan was not able to think about his loss without tears.

In the first piece, the drummer becomes more frank with us. All salt lies in the short word Rapture. It is for them that one in Western culture can be identified the main event from the New Testament. And in this case, Dan brings to us the idea that the death of his brother instantly began the end of the world for him. And although he is ready to agree that a lot is hidden in it to understand the feelings of Tom - Dan simply cannot use it in his favor.

The pain is still too strong to try to find a way out with the help of the words of your beloved brother. Therefore, words for Dan mean nothing now. He is in the same maze that Tom saw in front of him when he still continued to believe in the success of his struggle against melanoma. But in the case of Dan, the cause of this labyrinth was the torment, which the twin experiences from the world who has turned upside down.

All the paths that the musician finds on the way to alleviate his suffering will certainly return him to that. And in this trap, he feels a paradox, because now, at the moment when Tom is no more, Dan feels him stronger than ever. He relies for a while, inspiring the confidence that it is able to put everything in its place. But what remains for him now, when the pain in this wound is unbearable?

It is not capable of diving into fragments of memories of the day when Tom was gone, in search of new symbols that could be held throughout this dark night - for him it is like being in the epicenter of storm. Dan is waiting for a message.The same symbol that will let him know that he is on the right path from this labyrinth. But so far, his crippled bones hurt, but still continues to fight.

In Mortal AFTER ALL, Dan makes an attempt to look on the other side of the open door, as his brother once made, for the first time thinking about the irreversibility of his quick departure. In the period when the mortality of all living things is recognized by him much more acute than usual, the drummer admits the idea that he comes into confrontation with the parting words of the volume, which he gave to the suffering people in the song “C.

R ” - to find even the most tiny ray of light and hold on to it, as if he is more significant than everything that is on this planet. But if this parting words did not help himself, who ultimately abandoned any hopes, is this parting words by a simple self-deception? Therefore, a punch flies in the listeners, where an excerpt from “C. R ”is interpreted in other conditions, and with other consequences:“ Once, all of us will begin the spirit, too lost in the light, where we are trying to see that the best of the song is pumped up with several references, where the main thing is the next constitution, that after death any creature will find its continuation in another form, scattered around the world.

Well, the statement that “any wave has to disappear” refers to the song “Gravity”, where, however, it was used in the context of the invincibility of empathy before the universal evil. Here, the phrase is dancing under the tune of the idea of ​​a limb of human life, which is just the wave that is destined to break. The title song of the album, Oxymoron “Holy Hell”, is the site where the group begins to understand the whole need to learn the tragedy of its deceased founder as the most important lesson for everyone in the five.

Dan's sacred hell called just the whole period of the most difficult suffering from the loss of his brother, who, after time, he began to understand as the inevitable and necessary therapy for the soul. Therapy through the pain and tears, which will allow him to return to normal life, the best person than he was before. In order to better realize his experience, Dan appropriating the event, which gave rise to all this grief, special symbolism and name in his life.

Tom's death becomes a fire for him at the gate - the main reminder of the value of life, which at the same time does not force him to be afraid of the day when death comes after him. It is important to note that the fire at the gate is comparable to the end of Tom only for Dan's experiences. But at the same time, the musician allows his versatility, so the presence of such a fire may be present in the worldview of other people, which also collided with severe loss, but could not construct the most true meaning of this event for themselves.

A separate paragraph, I would like to touch on the meaning of the cover of the album. She hides in herself a symbol of Zen-Buddhism, which is commonly called “Enso”-a circle symbolizing the presence of peace and harmony in the impenetration of the surrounding world. Enso, hidden in this game of gray colors, is Dan’s struggle for that, humility with the tragedy of his life, which he tries to survive.

The track immediately begins with the question. That the fire at the gate is our saving grace ”to develop this idea, the musician comes to the rescue“ Broken Cross ”, claiming that God created people in order to burn. This is the sacred hell in which we can be saved ”with the adoption of the fate that Architecs sarcastically made in the track of the year, Dan develops this vision, offering a way out.

Let us burn in this world, but this flame can make us stronger and happier. This fire, which people have been afraid for so long, becomes for Dan to others - he sees buried gold in his blue. The play of words here demonstrates one interesting. If you roughly divide the fire by color, then the two main shades in it will be blue and gold will lower the scarlet Blue in English also denotes deep sadness, so Dan’s words that among the blue color becomes golden, indicates that the drummer managed to become on the right path.

Exactly at the moment when he realized that the pain from the loss of volume became necessary for him. But is this awareness capable of burning all the bridges between the uncertainty that have arisen that they hide in the air after the departure of Tom? Not yet. The song from the first filing reveals its main idea. On the stage, the conflict between man and the Earth is again on stage.

The fact is that this line illuminates the problem of consumerism well - an excessive absorption by a person of the planet’s resources, no matter what they are. Instead of rationally stored with resources, adequately evaluating its needs, our civilization looks at a too short temporary distance, preferring to satisfy itself as much as possible today. Such behavior can also be regarded as suffering, because people violate the balance, every year increasing their ecological debt to the planet, spending its wealth is not clear for what.Therefore, this method is regarded as suffering, because we have chosen the worst tactics, and condemning nature to suffering - we suffer as part of this nature.

And how not paradoxical - we suffer to survive. But do not live. The chorus of the song drops the listener one more high excerpt. In fact, the quote belongs to the Australian friend of the twins we only know that his name is John, who, in the same conversation with Tom, shared his thoughts about what hope means for him. Three weeks after the death of the guitarist, the group again went to Australia, where Dan met this man.

He admitted to me that Tom did not put everything that he told him. In fact, the fact that he informed him: "Hope is a prison, but Vera will free you." I promised him that I would correct this phrase. With this lyrical development, Dan completes the cycle - Vera, which his brother rejected, is already returning to him to help survive woeful experience. Another method that Dan uses to show the need to overcome pain through its adoption is contained in the composition "Royal Beggars".

Commenting on the track, the musician recalls the moment when the group was at a crossroads. To regret yourself and believe that the world is a terrible place, and let him defeat us.