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.
Lore
Characters, places, and stories from the AI Kills universe.
Stillbirth recording sessions - story-wise goes between Track 11 "Chapter 11 Bankrupt Lives" and Track 12 "Clock Strikes Twelve. Originally recorded June 2, 2025.
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.
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.
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Recently Added Songs
- 6/20/2026: Zero Tolerance (One Enemy From Night)
- 6/20/2026: Not A Real Band (TJ's Mix)
- 6/20/2026: Metal Saves Christmas
- 6/20/2026: Happy Metal Holidays
- 6/20/2026: When Bandcamp Kicked Me
- 6/20/2026: Discord
- 6/20/2026: Alcohol
- 6/20/2026: Parallel World
- 6/20/2026: Happy Father's Day 2025 [UNPLUGGED]
- 6/20/2026: Happy 4th of July [UNPLUGGED]
Holidays Et cetera Vol. 1
The latest addition to the AI Kills catalogue. Browse all releases →
Discography
Albums and EPs from the AI Kills catalogue, spanning unreleased concepts to full-length metal worlds.
Tour and shows
Every AI Kills performance is unique. Follow the next signal and catch the next live event.
We They Summer/Fall/Winter 2026 Discord Tour | NEXT SHOW
The Perseid Dry Lakebed | Cle Elum, Washington
A cracked-mud playa under the darkest sky in the state. No stage lights competing with anything except stars — because out here, there's nothing else to compete with.
Tens of thousands camp out on the dry lakebed, riding the tail end of the Perseids. Peak night was August 13, up to 150 meteors an hour, but the debris field doesn't read a calendar — fireballs are still streaking the sky two nights later, right on cue over a half-buried saucer stage that looks like it crash-landed here on purpose.
No pyro budget needed. The sky does it for free, and it doesn't miss.
Camp under the stars the night before, build a fire, watch the band you came for tear through a set with the Milky Way as the backdrop. Earthlings and greys, all welcome. Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but memories — and maybe a meteor or two, if you're fast enough to catch one falling.
Streaming home: This event is tentatively set for the AI Kills Mainstage Discord — but it's also up for grabs. We're giving a handful of partner Discords the chance to host one of these six shows in their own server first. If a partner channel claims it before showtime, that's where the stream goes. If not, it streams live on the AI Kills Mainstage Discord as planned. Either way, you'll be able to catch the show, chat live with the band's human creator, Todd Russell, throughout, and stick around after for a backstage voice chat with the band.
One night. One sky. One dimension.
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We They Summer/Fall/Winter 2026 Discord Tour
Area 51 Front Gate | Groom Lake, Nevada
Staged right at the perimeter fence — dust kicked up in the floodlights, chain-link rattling with bass. Timed near the anniversary of the legendary "Storm Area 51" gathering, when the internet swore it could take on the world's most secretive base.
The crowd Naruto-runs the playa. AI Kills dares the base to respond — an AI band serenading whatever's actually in the hangar, daring them to turn the lights on. Half concert, half standoff. Pure alien-conspiracy camp, played completely straight.
📡 Streaming home: Tentatively set for AI Kills Mainstage Discord — but up for grabs. Partner Discords get first shot at hosting one of these six shows. If unclaimed by showtime, it streams on Mainstage as planned. Either way: live chat with creator Todd Russell throughout, plus a backstage voice chat with the band after the set.
One night. One sky. One dimension.
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We They Summer/Fall/Winter 2026 Discord Tour
Saturn's Rings | Outer Space, Saturn
A stage built on the ice. The most literal "space" venue possible — a platform anchored in the ring debris, the banded planet filling the entire sky behind the band like a second sun that never sets.
Timed to Saturn's opposition, when it's at its brightest and biggest all night, visible to the naked eye from sunset to sunrise on October 4. While Earth looks up, AI Kills plays from inside the rings looking back.
No crowd noise in a vacuum. No oxygen. No excuses. Just the band, the rings, and a few billion miles of room to turn it up.
📡 Streaming home: Tentatively set for AI Kills Mainstage Discord — but up for grabs. Partner Discords get first shot at hosting one of these six shows. If unclaimed, it streams on Mainstage as planned. Either way: live chat with creator Todd Russell throughout, plus a backstage voice chat with the band after the set.
One night. One sky. One dimension.
We They Summer/Fall/Winter 2026 Discord Tour
The Mothership | Seattle, WA
The saucer's underbelly is the stage. AI Kills descends onto the Space Needle on a tractor beam, green light washing down the skyline as the whole city tilts its head back. Friday the 13th, hometown turf, and the band touches down right on the icon every Seattleite knows by heart.
Your city gets abducted for one night. The Needle becomes a docking spire, the streets below glow alien green, and the band plays from a hull hanging over downtown like it owns the airspace — because tonight it does.
Welcome home. Look up.
📡 Streaming home: Tentatively set for AI Kills Mainstage Discord — but up for grabs. Partner Discords get first shot at hosting one of these six shows. If unclaimed, it streams on Mainstage as planned. Either way: live chat with creator Todd Russell throughout, plus a backstage voice chat with the band after the set.
One night. One sky. One dimension.
We They Summer/Fall/Winter 2026 Discord Tour
The Geminid Bonfire Finale | Steep Ravine Beach, California
The year-end closer. A beach lined end to end with a thousand bonfires, riding the Geminids — the year's best meteor shower, peaking around Dec 14 with 120+ shooting stars an hour on a dark night.
Thousands huddled around fire, falling stars overhead, salt air and woodsmoke, and AI Kills sending off the year from the sand. Space spectacle and human warmth in one frame — the loudest, warmest goodbye the year's going to get.
🎁 Every confirmed attendee gets an exclusive digital gift, redeemable at AIKillsBand.com.
📡 Streaming home: AI Kills Mainstage Discord, live chat with creator Todd Russell throughout, plus a backstage voice chat with the band after the set.
One night. One sky. One dimension.
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.
Contact
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