Archspire in Manchester

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.