Archspire


Archspire is a Canadian technical death metal band from Vancouver, British Columbia. They are currently signed to Season of Mist. The group has released three studio albums.

History

The band was formed in 2007 as Defenestrated, but changed their name to Archspire in 2009.
In April 2011, Trendkill Recordings released All Shall Align, the band's first album. It was recorded between May and December 2010 working with producer Stuart McKillop at The Hive studios
In early 2013, founding bassist Jaron Evil suffered an unexpected stroke at age 31. He returned to the band for a brief period after recovering, but eventually parted ways.
Later in 2013, Archspire signed with Season of Mist, and returned to Rain City Recorders to produce a second album with Stuart McKillop. On February 2, 2014, the band released a single from their upcoming album, "Lucid Collective Somnambulation", and in April released The Lucid Collective.
In January 2015 the band announced they were seeking a permanent bass player as a replacement for then-touring bassist Clayton Harder. They asked interested parties to record a video of themselves playing an Archspire song and sending the band a link. On January 12, the band announced that they had selected Jared Smith to become their full-time bassist, and posted Smith's play through video of "Lucid Collective Somnambulation".
The band announced their third album Relentless Mutation and a single, "Involuntary Doppelgänger", on July 5, 2017. The album was released on September 22, 2017.
In 2019, the band made tech news headlines when a duo of programmers called Dadabots created a neural network trained on Archspire's music to produce a non-stop stream of technical death metal based on the band's music; Dadabots also noted that Archspire's music produced the most consistent AI results, presumably because of the high tempo and technical machine-like nature of the songs. Archspire themselves also commented on the phenomenon, jokingly referring to themselves as robots. Later that year, Aleron and Prewett appeared in a cameo in the first episode of See; actor Jason Momoa is a fan of the band and asked singer Aleron to coach him for a war cry technique.

Members

Current members