The Spiritspiders (Grunge/Folk/Electronic)

  • The Spiritspiders are my band, my project and my curse. Long story short: Tried to start rock band, couldn't find other musicians, bought an Access Virus b and a guitar. It's been that basic set-up with varying line-ups since then.


    Here are some songs from 2008 with music videos, featuring my old Virus b:


    Close (Jupiter Rising EP) - Rhodes-like sound and pads.
    Harlequin (Jupiter Rising EP) - Everything except vocals and concert guitar comes from the Virus b.


    If you're not into radio-compatible pop-crap so much, I can offer you 2009's Evolution:Elation:Extinction album-length concept demo. Back then my Virus was undergoing its first power supply-related repair and I was trying to develop a more organic sound although/because I was at that time without a band again, so I experimented with using modulated guitars, samples and piano/Mellotron soft synths instead of the Virus b during that phase. I got into playing the bass guitar, recorded real drums and bought a cajon (what was I thinking?!) If you listen to the demo in the right order, you can hear the repaired Virus b creep in through the back door and take its place in the orchestra.


    Our debut album from 2012 is more straight forward guitar music with occasional pads and strings from the Virus because the band wasn't into it. Damn hippies! You can catch it on our homepage though. Please check out the RELEASE tab to get to the audio. A song from 2013 called 2013 doesn't feature any Virus at all (unless the producer used one without my knowledge), because I actually only sang and played drums and rhythm guitar on that one. It was the beginning of our current line-up. The b-side features a cover version of House of the Rising Sun with warbling Virus pads.


    In 2014 the Spiritspiders produced an exclusive song called Lunacy for the promotional campaign for Jay Leroy's R.M.Tarot. It marks a departure from the vintage sounds of the debut album and 2013 single. You can catch a part of the instrumental in the video on the Kickstarter page's for the Tarot deck.


    The upcoming releases are going to be more eclectic stylistically and feature my new Virus TI2 heavily, because I'm dying to toy around with it.