''Ruin'' is the second studio album by British

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band Architects. It was released on 25 October 2007 through United by Fate,

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and

Century Media Records Century Media Records is a heavy metal record label with offices in the United States, Germany and London. In August 2015, Century Media was acquired by Sony Music for US$17 million. Background Century Media was founded by Robert Kampf and Oli ...

. The album was produced by John Mitchell, Ben Humphreys and the band themselves. It is the first album to feature vocalist Sam Carter and bassist Alex Dean.

Composition

Style

Stylistically, this album displays a minor change in the band's style, with a more fluid metalcore sound. Clean vocals are implemented again in a few songs, to a larger extent than on ''Nightmares'', although not as prominently as in later releases. The album features a change in guitar tuning, from drop C (which was used on ''Nightmares'') to drop B, for all tracks, except "Low", which features the same tuning as drop B, but with the low B tuned to F# (the bass string on an eight string guitar). ''Ruin'' was the first Architects album to feature new vocalist Sam Carter. His vocal style is quite different to that of previous vocalist Matt Johnson, marking a shift from screaming towards hardcore punk-style shouting. This is most obvious on the 2008 re-recording of "To the Death" (from '' Nightmares'') that was available for download for a short period.

Track listing

Personnel

Writing, performance and production credits are adapted from the album liner notes. Architects * Sam Carter – lead vocals * Tom Searle – lead guitar, keyboards, programming * Tim Hillier-Brook – rhythm guitar * Alex "Ali" Dean –

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* Dan Searle –

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, percussion, programming Additional musicians * Nick Worthington of

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– guest vocals on the bonus track "Broken Clocks" Additional personnel * Architects – production * John Mitchell – production, engineering, mixing * Ben Humphreys – production, engineering * Tim Turan – mastering * Greg Below – A&R * Seldon Hunt – artwork design, layout

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2007 albums Architects (British band) albums Distort Entertainment albums Century Media Records albums