Archspire & Analepsy in Madrid

Archspire are a Canadian technical death metal band formed in Vancouver in 2007. Their music is built on rapid-fire vocals, intricate guitar parts and extreme tempos, documented on albums including The Lucid Collective, Relentless Mutation and Bleed the Future. “Involuntary Doppelgänger,” “Drone Corpse Aviator” and “Golden Mouth of Ruin” are among their best-known songs. Archspire took Tech Trek IV across North America in 2019, accompanied by Inferi, Virvum and Wormhole. The band returned to the headline series for Tech Trek V in 2022, playing clubs in the United States and Canada alongside Entheos and Vulvodynia. In 2023 they brought the format to European clubs on Tech Trek Europe, joined by Psycroptic and Benighted.

Analepsy are a Portuguese slamming brutal death metal band formed in Lisbon in 2013. They established their sound on the EP Dehumanization by Supremacy and the albums Atrocities from Beyond and Quiescence, combining low guttural vocals, dense guitar work and breakdown-driven rhythms. In 2023, Analepsy toured the United States and Canada behind Quiescence. The North American run paired the band with Cognitive, Wormhole and NecroticGoreBeast.