AI Kills fuses heavy riffs, cinematic storytelling, and live AI performance into a show that never repeats itself. Every release hits like a signal flare. Every set changes in real time.
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About AI Kills
AI Kills is a heavy metal project forged in Seattle, blending authored myth, machine-driven performance, and unapologetically dramatic live energy.
The band merges cutting-edge artificial intelligence with the force of classic and modern metal. The result is a set of songs and performances that feel theatrical, aggressive, and alive.
Stories are rooted in original writing by published author Todd Russell, giving the project a human core inside all of that machine-powered chaos.
This is not tribute-metal and it is not novelty. It is a performance engine built for riffs, spectacle, and moments that do not happen the same way twice.
Vocals
Vince Stone
Mascot / Guitar
Reaper Robot
Lead Guitar
TDavid "Frets" Fritz
Bass
Larry "Lowlife" Logan
Keys / Piano
Roberta Keys
Drums
Steve "Sticks" Bam
The Universe
Lore
Characters, places, and stories from the AI Kills universe.
Song
The Essence
Stillbirth recording sessions - story-wise goes between Track 11 "Chapter 11 Bankrupt Lives" and Track 12 "Clock Strikes Twelve. Originally recorded June 2, 2025.
Place
Mystery City
Mystery City leaves behind disappearing street maps that only update when the band changes a lyric, making songs part of the city's physical architecture. Related: Mystery City is the location of main character Shrell's home -- a golden underwater paradise -- in the AI Kills album Stillbirth (2025). This is a parallel world vision of another possible Mystery City. The song "Mystery City [BONUS TRACK]" was originally provided as a bonus track when purchasing the album at Bandcamp. When Bandcamp removed all AI Kills music at the end of January 2026, the song became unreleased again for a time, creating yet more mystery around the track.
Artifact
Feedback Garden
When AI Kills destroys gear after an emotionally overloaded set, the wreckage can root overnight into a Feedback Garden: speaker-vines that replay audience memories and sometimes receive transmissions from future listeners.
The Sound
Music and videos
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Latest Video
Fresh video straight from the AI Kills YouTube channel.
Recently Added Songs
- 6/17/2026: The Essence
- 6/1/2026: Secret Box
- 5/19/2026: Clock Strikes Twelve (Live Kills Biscuit Flower Hour 9/21/25)
- 5/19/2026: Digital Dreamers(Kills Biscuit Live AI Flower Hour 9/21/2025)
- 5/19/2026: Holy Shroud
- 5/19/2026: Hell Is Their Home
- 5/19/2026: Serpents
- 5/19/2026: Nature Burns Free
- 5/19/2026: The Program [UNPLUGGED]
- 5/19/2026: Mystery City
ALBUM
Time Helmet (NFHell Season 1)
The latest addition to the AI Kills catalogue. Browse all releases →
The Catalogue
Discography
Albums and EPs from the AI Kills catalogue, spanning unreleased concepts to full-length metal worlds.
Newest
Time Helmet (NFHell Season 1)
Exclusive
S.O.S (Complex Humans)
Exclusive
Danger (Stay Out Of Danger 1990)
Exclusive
They
Exclusive
Holy Shroud
ALBUM
Reaper Robot
SINGLE
Slave (Live Las Vegas 10/31/2025)
![NFHell (Preseason) [UNPLUGGED] cover art](https://aikillsband.b-cdn.net/aikills/music/single/nfhell-preseason-unplugged/cover.jpg)
Exclusive
NFHell (Preseason) [UNPLUGGED]
EP
NFHell (Preseason)
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Secret Box
Exclusive
We
ALBUM
Stillbirth
SINGLE
Breaking The Fourth Wall
ALBUM
Love, Live Don't F-ing Hate, Die
ALBUM
Mowing That F-ing Lawn
Live Events
Tour and shows
Every AI Kills performance is unique. Follow the next signal and catch the next live event.
JUL
3
2026
We They Summer/Fall/Winter 2026 Discord Tour | NEXT SHOW
The Crash Site Mainstage | Roswell, New Mexico
AI Kills Live: Roswell Crash Site Takeover The desert flats north of town. A recreated 1947 debris field, reassembled into the stage itself — a half-buried saucer, torn hull, band playing out of the wreckage like it's still smoking. Mid-set, the craft re-lights. Struts engage. It rises. Reaper Robot emerges from the cockpit — the pilot they never found, finally walking out into the light. Thirty thousand costumed greys and earthlings packed into the dark — streaming live, the one weekend a year the whole town already believes the cover story is a lie. Watch it unfold live in the AI Kills Official Discord — full stream, plus live chat with the band's human creator, Todd Russell, throughout the show. After the set: stick around for a first-ever backstage voice chat with the band — open to everyone watching. Every confirmed attendee will receive an exclusive digital gift, redeemable at AIKillsBand.com. The truth isn't out there. It's on stream.
Virtual
AUG
15
2026
We They Summer/Fall/Winter 2026 Discord Tour
The Perseid Dry Lakebed | Cle Elum, Washington
Tens of thousands camp on a cracked-mud flat with zero light pollution, riding the tail end of the Perseids, which peak on the night of August 13 with up to 150 meteors per hour and the occasional fireball. No pyro budget needed — the sky does it. A desert festival where the lightshow is overhead and free.
Virtual
SEP
19
2026
We They Summer/Fall/Winter 2026 Discord Tour
Area 51 Front Gate | Groom Lake, Nevada
Staged at the perimeter fence, dust and floodlights, near the anniversary of the "Storm Area 51" gathering. The crowd Naruto-runs the playa while AI Kills dares the base to respond — an AI band serenading whatever AI they're hiding in the hangar. Pure alien-conspiracy camp!
Virtual
OCT
3
2026
We They Summer/Fall/Winter 2026 Discord Tour
Saturn's Rings | Outer Space, Saturn
Saturn's Rings — a stage built on the ice · The most literal "space" venue possible: a platform anchored in the ring debris with the banded planet filling the entire sky behind the band. Timed to Saturn's peak, when it's at its brightest from sunset to sunrise on October 4, visible to the naked eye.
Virtual
NOV
13
2026
We They Summer/Fall/Winter 2026 Discord Tour
The Mothership | Seattle, WA
The saucer's underbelly is the stage; the band descends to the Space Needle on a tractor beam while green light washes the skyline. Your hometown gets abducted for one night. Horror-metal staging plus alien-invasion community panic — perfect for a video drop.
Virtual
DEC
12
2026
We They Summer/Fall/Winter 2026 Discord Tour
The Geminid Bonfire Finale | Steep Ravine Beach, California
Year-end closer on a beach lined with a thousand bonfires, riding the Geminids, which peak around December 14 and can throw 120+ meteors per hour on a dark night. Thousands huddled around fire, falling stars overhead, the band sending off the year. Space spectacle and human warmth in one frame.
Virtual
Live · Thursawday
Weekly Streams
AI Kills hosts two recurring weekly streams on Thursawday — ItsAiTV Monday Music every Monday and Thursawday Tunes every Thursday, both at 6am PST.
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