Archaean Harmony is a
Maltese metal band started in 1995. It has seen a
number of line-up and stylistic changes throughout the
years.
Early Years
Archaean Harmony was founded in
January of 1995 by Darkmortem (Chris Zarb) and Lord Trebor (Robert
Agius). The first release was the January 1998 demo ‘Resentment Of
An Evanesce Aeon’. The line up for this session included
Darkmortem, Lord Trebor, guitar player Adrameleck and session bass
and drum programming. The opening track ‘Beneath the Seas of Absu’
would be featured on various compilation tapes and on the CD
sampler ‘Tomorrow’s Millionaires’ released by Toppling Colossus
Records. In all the band would sell over 600 copies of ‘Resentment
Of An Evanesce Aeon’.
A second demo, recorded at
Temple Studios with Lord Trebor
handling the bulk of the instrumentation, was released in 1999.
Guitarist Adrameleck departed in 1999 to be replaced by Adriel
(Chris Mintoff).
Early 2000's
The band signed to
Solemn Music to issue the 2000 ‘Nihility Mundane Soul’ CD, the same
material recorded a couple of months before at Temple Studios.
'Nihility Mundane Soul' sold around 2000 copies and further
generated another 3000 on-line downloads of the track ‘Metabolism
Under the Ascending Moon - Part 2’ on the mp3.com site. This same
track was also featured on various compilation tapes and on the
compilation album ‘Insights of the Profane’ issued by the American
Makahru label, and the ‘Blood In The Waters’ compilation released
by Deadtide.
During early 2001 Archaean Harmony enrolled
Enshroud,
Sceptopcrypt and
Dysmennorhea
man Asmodeus (Conrad Borg) on keyboards,
Enshroud drummer
Bocc (Kenneth Paul Pace) and
No Name Yet bassist Steven
Muliett. Conrad Borg quit soon after.
Stylistically, the band
moved further away from their quasi-black metal past and towards
more
progressive
music.
Present
Co-founder and guitarist Robert Agius
and guitarist Chris Mintoff quit the band in 2003 due to personal
reasons.
Adrian Camilleri (ex-
Angeldust) took up guitar
duties in early 2004. The other co-founder of the band, Chris Zarb,
quit in mid-2004, also for personal reasons. The band had a stint
as a three-piece instrumental band.
Conrad Borg re-joined the
band as vocalist in late 2004, and singer Bianca Caruana joined in
summer of 2005.
The current line-up includes Kenneth Pace on
drums, Steve Muliett on bass, Conrad Borg and Bianca Caruana on
vocals, and Adrian Camilleri on guitars. Virtually all black metal
references have been dropped, opening up to a versatile progressive
sound with frequent references to jazz.
No new releases have
been issued by the band since 2000.