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Reign of the Architect
8+ albums
Progressive metalsymphonic metaloriental metalIsraelheavy
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Reign of the Architect is a progressive, symphonic metal act, formed in 2012 by Yuval Kramer. Reign of the Architect started as a multinational studio project in October 2008. A cooperation between Yuval Kramer, guitarist of the highly acclaimed Israeli metal band AMASEFFER and Mexican drummer Mauricio Bustamante with the basic storyline written by the Israeli metal singer Yotam ‘Defiler’ Avni, the lead death metal singer of PREY FOR NOTHING. They wrote ROTA’s debut album ‘Rise’, a Sci-Fi concept album, only by e-mailing each other combining their own regional musical influences, such as Mediterranean and Latin music, as well as film soundtracks into the language of progressive metal. In March 2010, it was time for Mauricio to travel to Israel for the recordings. They decided to work with a variety of different musicians, some unknown and fresh talents, such as the current male singers and the keyboardist of the band, along side with big names of the World’s Rock and Metal scenes, such as: the American bass virtuoso, Kyle Honea, who unfortunately was unable to finish the recordings so he was replaced in the middle of the project by the well-known SYMPHONY X ‘s bass player Mike LePond, the Dutch keyboard player Joost Van Den Broek (AYREON, AFTER FOREVER) contributed the keyboard solos on the band’s first single, “Distant Similarities“, the Israeli jazz-fusion guitarist Assaf Levy – a well-known player and respected musician in Israel – played the solos on two songs of the
