Arcane Roots
| Arcane Roots | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Surrey, England |
| Genres | Alternative rock, post-hardcore, math rock, progressive rock, mathcore |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Labels | Easy Life Records, Play It Again Sam. Publisher: Sony/ATV |
| Website | arcaneroots.com |
| Members | Andrew Groves Adam Burton Jack Wrench |
| Past members | Frank Tiramani Daryl Atkins |
| Arcane Roots discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 1 |
| Music videos | 7 |
| EPs | 4 |
| Singles | 7 |
Arcane Roots are a three-piece alternative rock band from Kingston Upon Thames, England. Founded by guitarist & vocalist Andrew Groves and former drummer Daryl Atkins, the band are known for their energetic live shows, and incorporating progressive music, math rock and indie rock into a popular song format. Their debut mini-album Left Fire was released in February 2011 and received strong reviews from both the press and their peers alike. The band completed their first UK headline tour in June 2011 and ended the summer with slots at Sonisphere and Heavy Festival. Arcane Roots were asked to cover "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana for Kerrang! Magazine's Nevermind Forever Cover CD, in which they were the only unsigned band. Arcane Roots completed work on their first full-length debut album Blood & Chemistry in January 2013. The album was released on 6 May 2013.
Andrew Groves and Daryl Atkins met at Reigate College in Surrey, while studying music technology. The pair were in numerous function/studio bands together until realising their similar opinions and approaches to music, which lead to them forming the band in 2006, with bassist Frank Tiramani. The band immediately set about recording a home studio demo of 5 songs ("Factions", "Spark", "What You Call It", "What Becomes You" & "Peaches") and began to gig around South-East London giving the CD's away for free, this culminated in a support slot with the French-Canadian band Malajube at the 100 Club in London in September 2007. The band also added a demo of new song "Becoming Of Age" to the CD for the Malajube date.
In late 2007, the band demoed 3 new songs ("Casualties", "An Easy Smile" & "Humanism is a Condition") plus reworkings of "What Becomes You" & "Becoming of Age" from the previous home demo, to be included on a new 5 track EP titled Brave the Sea. Brave the Sea was produced and recorded by Chris Coulter, who was then working at Stakeout Studios in Richmond, which the band chose as it was where Reuben had recorded Racecar is Racecar Backwards. Brave the Sea took over a whole year to record due to costs and Frank's traveling commitments which saw him away for 6 months, during this time Andrew & Daryl recorded home demos of new songs "Avalane" and "Long & Low", which were briefly available to hear on the Arcane Roots Myspace. Brave the Sea was released digitally by the band in August 2008.
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