Songfacts®:

• "Blackhole" is about feelings of desperation and the search for meaning in a seemingly meaningless world. "Is there nothing but the cold at the center of a black hole?" Architects vocalist Sam Carter questions. He delivers the line with the kind of intensity that suggests he's not expecting a comforting answer.
• Drummer Dan Searle said in an Apple Music interview that the song reflects on mortality and the daily struggles that feel enormous until they're framed against the rather unhelpful fact that we are all, ultimately, temporary. "It's about the battles we face day to day - and how insignificant so much of our suffering is in the face of inevitability."
  
  This concept will be familiar to those familiar with Buddhism.
• Searle, of course, knows a thing or two about grief. His twin brother, Architects' guitarist and primary songwriter Tom Searle, passed away from skin cancer in 2016, an event that understandably reshaped the band's perspective on, well, everything.
  
  "All of us see friends or family get sick, and it stirs up all sorts of thoughts and feelings," he said. "When we wrote that song, that had come up in our lives. I was asking myself, 'What's this all about? And why am I wasting my time suffering over nothing?'" Which is the sort of question best asked with a pummeling guitar riff in the background.
• "Blackhole" finds Architects revisiting existential themes from their earlier work. Songs like "Memento Mori," "Doomsday," and "Death Is Not Defeat" tackle similar questions with varying levels of fury and despair, and while the band's sound has evolved over the years - moving from chaotic aggression to a more refined, melodic heaviness - their core themes remain the same: life is fleeting, suffering is inevitable, and the best way to deal with it is to scream about it over massive guitars.
• The cinematic music video, directed by Los Angeles filmmaker Jensen Noen (known for his work with Falling In Reverse and In This Moment) was shot in California. We see the band performing the song on an oil rig getting smashed by flying objects.