Architecture of a God is Italian power metal band Labyrinth's eighth album, released on 21 April 2017 via Frontiers Records.
In 2014, lead vocalist Roberto Tiranti left Labyrinth to embark on a solo career, and Mark Boals was chosen as his replacement.
[7] In 2016, however, the band announced they were working on a new album to be released via Frontiers Music Srl in 2017 and to be recorded with the reunion of founding members Olaf Thorsen and Andrea Cantarelli on guitars, with Tiranti on lead vocals, John Macaluso (ex-Ark, Yngwie Malmsteen, James LaBrie, Riot, Starbreaker, and TNT) on drums, Oleg Smirnoff (ex-Vision Divine, Eldritch, Death SS) on keyboards and Nik Mazzucconi on bass.
[8] The reunion was suggested by the label, which called Cantarelli and Thorsen and insisted they worked back together in order to revisit their "classic sound".
[5][6] Writing for Metal Hammer Italia, Stefano Giorgianni recognized the band is not the same as before, but still praised the overall performance, including that of new members Mazzucconi, Smirnoff and Macaluso, and said the band writes "poetry transposed to music, with compositions that transcend genres and directly reach one's heart".