Artist · chart history
Archers of Loaf
Band Chapel Hill Formed 1991
Archers of Loaf formed in 1991 in Chapel Hill. Archers of Loaf has 11 chart appearances on 10 radio countdowns from 7 stations on RockLists, spanning 1993–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Web In Front”, which appears on 8 lists with a best position of #23. The station that charted Archers of Loaf most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1993.
Archers of Loaf came out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1991 with guitars that sounded like they'd been tuned by a hurricane: Eric Bachmann yelling and playing guitar, Eric Johnson adding a second layer of skronk and scrape, Matt Gentling on bass and Mark Price on drums. Icky Mettle, on Alias in 1993, is the one to start with, a jagged, gleeful racket, and "Web in Front" is its finest moment, wrong notes somehow turned right.
They toured hard and put out four studio albums, a compilation and a pile of singles and EPs before splitting in 1998, with a live album arriving after the fact. In 2011 the original four reunited for a tour as Merge reissued four of the albums, and in 2022 they came back for real with Reason in Decline, their first album in nearly 25 years.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Archers of Loaf on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Web In Front | 8 | #23 | – | 1993 | |
| 2 | Saturation And Light | 1 | #60 | – | 2023 | |
| 3 | Screaming Undercover | 1 | #90 | – | 2022 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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