Archspire is a Canadian technical death metal band from Vancouver, British Columbia, active since 2007 (originally as Defenestrated). They built their reputation on extreme speed and surgical precision - guitarist Dean Lamb and vocalist Oliver Rae Aleron push the genre's physical limits in ways that even attracted AI researchers in 2019, when programmers Dadabots trained a neural network on the band's music because its machine-like consistency produced the most stable results. Their 2021 album Bleed the Future won the Juno Award for Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year. In 2025 the band went fully independent after a Kickstarter campaign raised nearly $400,000 CAD, and released their fifth album Too Fast to Die in April 2026.
Archspire released their fifth studio album Too Fast to Die on April 10, 2026, as a fully independent release.
Archspire announced the 'European Vacation' headline tour for autumn 2026, covering the UK, Ireland and continental Europe with support from Crown Magnetar, The Zenith Passage and Analepsy.
Spencer Moore was announced as Archspire's new drummer on May 27, 2025, replacing Spencer Prewett who departed in September 2024.
Archspire announced they would release their next album independently, citing labels typically taking 80-85% of royalties.
The band's Kickstarter campaign to fund Too Fast to Die raised nearly $400,000 CAD, blowing past its goal in under 24 hours.
