Architects overcome Maximo Park in close race for number one (PA) Brighton band Architects have beaten Maximo Park to number one after a close fought race. The metalcore group, a genre which combines extreme metal and punk, pulled ahead by 550 chart sales to earn their first chart-topping album since forming in 2004, according to the Official Charts Company. It is not only the band’s first number one but also their first top 10 album – with their previous peak of number 15 coming in 2016. Paul Smith of Maximo Park (Laura Lean/PA) Celebrating the news, and paying tribute to their former lead guitarist Tom Searle – who died in 2016 aged 28 with melanoma skin cancer, singer Sam Carter said: “I cannot begin to tell you how much this means to us. Thank you to every single person who bought this record. We love you so much and we could not have done this without you.