Nightmares (Architects album)

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Nightmares
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Studio album by
Released15 May 2006
StudioSpringlodge Recording Rooms, Colchester, Essex, UK
Genre Metalcore [1]
Length30:24
Label
Producer
Architects studio album chronology
Nightmares
(2006)
Ruin
(2007)

Nightmares is the debut studio album by British metalcore band Architects. It was released on 15 May 2006 through Distort and In at the Deep End Records. The album was produced by the band themselves and Karl Bareham. It is the only album featuring the band's original line-up with Matt Johnson on vocals and Tim Lucas on bass.

Contents

The album was described by Metal Temple as "melodic, yet brutal" metalcore with rhythmic similarities to the bands the Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge and Unsane, which makes Architects' music "less boring". [1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Architects

No.TitleLength
1."To the Death"2:41
2."You Don't Walk Away from Dismemberment"4:58
3."Minesweeper"3:32
4."They'll Be Hanging Us Tonight"3:31
5."This Confession Means Nothing"3:29
6."In the Desert"4:05
7."A Portrait for the Deceased"4:23
8."The Darkest Tomb"3:42
Total length:30:24

Personnel

Architects

Additional personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Yiannis Dafopoulos (29 July 2007). "Architects - Nightmares (CD) review - Metal-Temple.com" . Retrieved 19 July 2021.