BecomingTheArchetype

Seth Hecox of Becoming the Archetype will be on tour a lot in support of I Am, out Sept. 18. He is clearly someone who knows about living life on the road, since the band tours often, so we polled him about the 10 items he must have on the road with him...

If you are a fan of animated adult fare like 'Metalocalypse' or 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force,' then wait 'til you get a load of Becoming the Archetype's video for 'Breathing Light,' which Noisecreep is exclusively premiering today ...

Becoming the Archetype guitarist and consummate baseball fan Seth Hecox checked in with Noisecreep again this year to offer his predictions for the 2011 MLB season. In honor of Opening Day tomorrow, Hecox is going on record with his picks for each and every division, along with divisional Wild Cards...

"We ride into the atmosphere / And leave the world behind / Ride because the end is here / No force on Earth can hold us down." -- Becoming the Archetype, 'Path of the Beam' "The title of the song is drawn from the 'Dark Tower' series by Stephen King," guitarist Seth Hecox recently told Noisecreep...

Noisecreep is thrilled to premiere 'Path of the Beam,' a track from Becoming the Archetype's new album 'Celestial Completion.' The song's beat and rhythms are incredibly militaristic, but the song also exudes a semi-gothic European atmosphere, thanks to a precise use of synthesizers...

Becoming the Archetype guitarist Seth Hecox, who is currently pouring through 'Grimm's Fairy Tales,' has an interesting hobby. He likes to find unique things at thrift stores and yard sales. We're not talking about clothes and records, either...

It looks like Becoming the Archetype are offering up a bunch of surprises on their forthcoming new album, 'Celestial Completion.' "We've incorporated more things than a person can imagine on this record," guitarist Seth Hecox exclusively revealed to Noisecreep...

Georgia's Becoming the Archetype are forward-thinkers. Literally. They've already lined up a July tour with Before There Was Rosalyn. The band will also play the annual Christian music festival Cornerstone for the ninth year in a row, if you count the three years that the Remnant, which eventually morphed into Becoming the Archetype, played the fest, too...

Heavy metal has long enjoyed a relationship with the left-hand path, the dark side, the underworld and Satan himself. Then there's the whole other side of the equation, which is the extreme Christian metal scene. Author Bruce Moore has chronicled the genesis and growth of the scene and has written a book called 'Metal Missionaries: The Assimilation of Extreme Christian Metal Into the Mainstream Co

Becoming the Archetype have announced a summer tour with Before There Was Rosalyn. But while that tour is still several months away, guitarist/keyboardist Seth Hecox caught up with Noisecreep about all the band's goings on. And there are quite a few of them, including beard-growing superpowers, a new album with an impossibly long, word-soup title and a stop in South Africa...