Last year, Architects guitarist Tom Searle passed away after a battle with cancer and now Northlane have paid their respects to the influential metal guitarist on their latest album Mesmer.
A week after Searle passed away, Northlane guitarist Jon Deiley called bandmate Josh Smith saying that they had to write a tribute song for him.
Smith took to Twitter to talk about the song ‘Paragon’ which ended up on their album which surprise-dropped on Friday.
“It was an extremely hard thing to do because we wanted it to live up to his stellar talent for songwriting,” he wrote.
Instead of penning their own lyrics, the band decided to reappropriate their favourite Architects lyrics. All the lyrics in the final song are reappropriations of Searle’s lyrics apart from a few lines that are taken from Rise Against’s ‘Architects’.
Architects have responded to the tribute taking to Twitter to write, “Thank you Northlane for Paragon.”
Hear the song below.
Listen: Northlane – ‘Paragon’
About a week after Tom Searle passed @jondeiley called me a told me we had to write a tribute song for him. I wanted to as well #mesmer
— Josh Smith (@northlanejosh) March 28, 2017
it was an extremely hard thing to do because we wanted it to live up to his stellar talent for songwriting #mesmer
— Josh Smith (@northlanejosh) March 28, 2017
I felt the only just way to do that was to reappropriate my favorite Architects lyrics #Mesmer
— Josh Smith (@northlanejosh) March 28, 2017
the lines in Paragon that aren't Tom's lines or reappropriations of his lyrics are from "architects" by Rise Against
— Josh Smith (@northlanejosh) March 28, 2017
Thank you @Northlane for Paragon x
— Architects (@Architectsuk) March 24, 2017
