Com Truise


Seth Haley is an American electronic musician. His stage name is a spoonerism of the name of American actor Tom Cruise.

Biography

Pre-2010, Com Truise had released music under the pseudonyms Sarin Sunday, SYSTM, and Airliner.
In 2010, the first Com Truise recording, the Cyanide Sisters EP, was released. Initially, the EP was a free download from the AMDISCS record label. Ghostly International digitally reissued it in January 2011. He resigned from his job as art director prior to this release. A remix of the EP appeared on the album soon after. In June 2011, he released his debut album, Galactic Melt. In Decay was the immediate full-length followup in 2012. Com Truise's songs are represented by Downtown Music Publishing.
He is from Oneida, New York and now resides in Orlando, Florida.

Style

Truise's sound is synthesizer-heavy synthwave, influenced by 1980s musical styles, as first offered on the Cyanide Sisters EP.

The "Com Truise"-saga

All of the Com Truise albums, starting with Cyanide Sisters and ending with Iteration tell the story of a space traveller named Com Truise; Haley described the character as a "synthetic astronaut", and the story as a tale about escaping an oppressed society.

Equipment

Since 2017, Truise has incorporated Dave Smith Instruments Ob-6 analogue keyboard on some tracks and for live performances.

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Compilation albums

Productions