MEMBERS

Alex Kenis - Guitar, Clean Vocals, primary song writing, recording engineer, producer, and more.

Alex is a founding member of Crutch (1997) and the driving musical force behind the band. Alex has played live, as well as written and recorded for all Crutch and Aletheian projects.

Alex is also a member of Studio Insomnia. Alex recorded, mixed, and mastered 'Apolutrosis', 'Dying Vine', as well as the re-release of '...hope prevails' Alex also designs and builds his own guitars, amps, and effects, which have been featured live and in recordings.

Alex has played with Becoming the Archetype, Synoptic Rise, and the up and coming new project Solamors.

Donny Swigart - Guitar, song writing.

Donny became a member of Crutch in 1999 and played with the band live until 2006. Donny recorded guitars on '...hope prevails', 'Apolutrosis', and 'Dying Vine'.

Currently, Donny plays guitar with the band Enshrouded by Despair and teaches guitar lessons in the Carlisle, PA area.

Joel Thorpe - Vocals, merchandising.

Joel became a member of Crutch in 1998 and has been involved with all live and recorded Crutch/Aletheian projects.

Joel was also the founder of Hope Prevails Productions and released '...hope prevails' re-release, 'Apolutrosis', the Live DVD, and the original release of 'Dying Vine'. Hope Prevails Productions also produced a variety of artwork for the band and album art, as well as all t-shirts and merchandise.

Joe Walmer - Drums

Joe became a member of Crutch in 2003, just before the band changed names to Aletheian. Joe played only one show as Crutch, the April 2003 MACRoCk festival at JMU in VA. All subsequent shows were under the name Aletheian. Joe played live and recorded the Live DVD and 'Dying Vine' album.

Joe has played with Blind Influence and Solace of Requiem.

Andy High - Bass

Longtime friend of the band, Andy became a live member of Aletheian in 2007, just before New England Metalfest.

Andy was the bassist and vocalist for Blind Influence.

Chris Keeney - Guitar

Longtime friend of the band, Chris played live with Aletheian at Cornerstone 2008.

Chris also played guitar with Blind Influence, as well as a wide variety of other projects/bands. Chris currently teaches guitar/recording in the Reading/Lancaster PA area.

Derek Corzine - Guitar

Derek played live with Aletheian in 2007, accompanying the band on a short summer tour, as well as Cornerstone 2007. Derek's wife Amy also accompanied the band during this time, lending her beautiful voice to a part in Exaleiphein Mov II.

Derek and Amy have a project called Whisper from Heaven, and Derek also plays with Bloodline Severed.

Keith Isenberg - Bass

Keith is a founding member of Crutch (1997), and played live with Crutch until the end of 2002, and also recorded for the '...hope prevails' album.

Keith and Travis Turner both left the band at the end of 2002 to focus on their families. This marked the end of the Crutch era; shortly after finding replacements, the band changed the name to Aletheian.

Travis Turner - Drums.

Travis became a member of Crutch in 1999. On the recommendation of his cousin (Stephen Sarro from Tantrum of the Muse), Crutch setup an audition with Travis. Travis exceeded our expectations, and seemed to be a perfect fit, he also seemed to love the material presented. However, he called back later in the week and said he wasn't interested, the material was too 'metal' and he didn't want to play metal. We're glad he changed his mind. Travis played with the band live until the end of 2002 and recorded drums on '...hope prevails' and 'Apolutrosis'

Travis also returned to play with Aletheian again for Cornerstone 2008.

Travis has played with a wide variety of bands in various genres, and has teamed up with Alex again for the up and coming new project Solamors. Travis also has an upcoming album release with The Unteachers, a band founded by his cousin Stephen Sarro.

Travis Wagner - Bass, Guitar.

Along with Joe Walmer, Travis joined on as the live bassist of Crutch in 2003, just before the band changed names to Aletheian. Travis played only one show as Crutch, the April 2003 MACRoCk festival at JMU in VA. All subsequent shows were under the name Aletheian. After a summer tour in 2003, Travis decided that bass was not his first love (as he converted to bass to play with the band) and chose to not continue with the band. Aletheian played live without a bassist until Andy High joined on in 2007.

Travis also returned to play guitar with Aletheian on a last-minute overnight decision to fill-in, following Donny's abrupt departure during the 2006 Hell Freezes Over tour. Travis played the remainder of shows on that tour on 1 day's notice and 1 rehearsal. Travis also played with Aletheian at Cornerstone 2006, the Crimson Moonlight/ Becoming the Archetype tour 2006, and New England Metalfest 2007.

Travis was also the guitarist in Blind Influence. (and if you haven't noticed a trend yet, Aletheian stole almost all the members of Blind Influence. And former Blind Influence member Mike Dinunzio designed the Aletheian logo, various concert flyers, several t-shirts, and the Dying Vine re-release album art. Aletheian loves Blind Influence, and would not really exist without them).