''Bleed the Future'' is the fourth studio album by Canadian

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band

Archspire Archspire is a Canadian technical death metal band from Vancouver. They have released four studio albums and are currently signed to Season of Mist. History The band was formed in 2007 as Defenestrated, but changed their name to Archspire in ...

, released on October 29, 2021, through

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. The album won the 2022

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for Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year. The album sold 3,700 units in its first week and debuted at No. 29 on the

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charts.

Promotion and release

In March 2020, Archspire announced they were rescheduling the "Tech Trek Canada" tour which they were set to headline with support from

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, and Wormhole. The band announced that while self-isolating as per CDC guidelines, they would be using their time to continue to write the follow up to 2017's Relentless Mutation. The band announced they were entering the studio in October 2020 to finish the album. They would once again be working with Dave Otero at Flatline studios in Denver. They would announce that they'd finished recording in Demeber of 2020, and noted that the album was a product of roughly two and a half years of writing adding that the "album is very fast, so please enjoy responsibly." On August 4, 2021, the band released the first single for the album, "Golden Mouth of Ruin", alongside an accompanying music video. The band also announced the release date and provided the track listing for the album. The band would release a lyric video to accompany the title track on September 3, and a music video directed by Rob Zawistowski and Mitch Ray for "Drone Corpse Aviator" on september 30. In December, the band released a documentary "Bring back the Danger" cataloguing the making of the album.

Reception

The album finished at No. 16 on Loudwire's Best Rock and Metal Albums of 2021 list. It was also named by MetalInjection as one of the best Technical Death Metal albums of 2021, with vocalist Oli Peters winning vocalist of the year and the album finishing 4th in fan poling.

Chart performance

The album debuted at number No. 7 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, No. 25 on the Hard Rock Album chart, and No. 8 on the

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chart.

Track listing

Personnel

Archspire * Oliver Rae Aleron – vocals * Tobi Morelli – guitars * Dean Lamb – guitars * Jared Smith – bass * Spencer Prewett – drums Production * Dave Otero – production,

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, mixing, mastering *

Eliran Kantor Eliran Kantor (born 13 September 1984) is a Berlin-based artist and illustrator known mostly for creating album covers for metal bands such as Testament, Soulfly, Helloween and My Dying Bride. He created the artwork used on various releases issu ...

– cover art

Charts

References

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