Couple quick points of interest for those of you who like to keep up on The Architects..

I. THE WRITING OF THE NEW ALBUM- The writing will of course be ongoing with revision stacked upon revision until the moment of that the final mix gets rendered. Of course it’s always fun to make little notes about the progress were making and then come back and read them a year or so later and laugh at how totally mistaken we were in our assessments of what was good or bad or fun or whatever.

TITLE: Knowing Is Half The Bottle
KEY: B flat major
TEMPO: Quick, bouncy
SOUNDS LIKE: The Dictators, The Pretenders- although having never listened to either The Dictators or The Pretenders, some hacky writer will undoubtedly compare it to Teenage Bottlerocket in a tragic attempt at sounding erudite and “with it”.
YOU GOT SOMETHING AGAINST TEENAGE BOTTLEROCKET: No.
LYRICAL CONTENT: Well, the whole tune is based on a stupid pun isn’t it? So it’s not exactly Leonard Cohen…but the world needs songs to get loaded and suck-face to.
REFERENCES TO MORDOR OR THE EYE OF SAURON: None.
REFERENCES TO DUNE: None.

TITLE: Hell Came To Breakfast
KEY: Em/Gmaj
TEMPO: Fast, Spry
SOUNDS LIKE: The Architects do the Streets Of Fire Soundtrack. ☺
PREVIOUS OR WORKING TITLE: The (Jim) Steinman Thing.
JOURNALISTIC DESCRIPTOR: wailing, bombastic
AMBITION: The new National Anthem of Bolivia.

TITLE: I Carry A Gun
KEY: Dm
PREVIOUS OR WORKING TITLE: The Jefferson Airplane Thing…don’t ask. Thx.
SOUNDS LIKE: What punk bands who cover Tom Petty songs wish they sounded like.
LYRICAL CONTENT: This is a fun one and that’s all I’m saying.
HEY, I’M IN A PUNK BAND THAT COVERS TOM PETTY, DO WE HAVE A PROBLEM?: No, you are just going to have to lighten the fuck up.
REFERENCES TO THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER: I’m working on it, people.

TITLE: Bastards At The Gate
KEY: Emaj
TEMPO: fast
SOUNDS LIKE: Stiff Little Fingers covering Springsteen…no…not at all like that really.
CO-WRITER: The Great Ehren Starks
LYRICAL CONTENT: Should be fairly self-explanatory
AMBITION: Indie gold, son.
REFERENCES TO WU TANG/SHAOLIN: Working on that.
IS THIS YOUR FAVORITE SONGS SO FAR: Yes it is.
REFERENCES TO “300”: No thanks. Metal bands seem to have that shit on lockdown.

TITLE: Death Rides A Horse
KEY: E maj
TEMPO: Slooooow
SOUNDS LIKE: Put it on when you’re dippin’ in the Benz with the alpine’s…it’s a street-banger, shorty.
OVERT INFLUENCES: Back in Black, Howlin’ Wolf.
LYRICAL CONTENT: Shit Clint Eastwood would say before he kills everyone in the saloon.
AMBITION: Hova should remix this shit.
GUITAR SOLO: Yes, dammit.

TITLE: Lost In The Dark
PREVIOUS OR WORKING TITLE: The Petty Thing
TEMPO: quick, bouncy
KEY: B maj
BEAUTIFUL CHIMING GUITAR LEAD: Yes.
TOTAL STINGER HOOK: Yes.
LORD OF THE RINGS SUBTEXT: No.
JOURNALISTIC DESCRIPTOR: The hit single.


There’s a bunch more tunes…but these are all the hints I’m giving for now.

I will be posting lots from the studio wherein, I will cry like a bitch and stamp my foot over having to sing...and other stuff that makes me anxious.