The progressive rock sound of the band makes it a great combination of folk and  rock along with the improvisation done with classical and western instruments to give it an indian touch. The band's sound resembles the sound of the bands "Dream Theater" and "Porcupine Tree".

Hope

Label: Octave Records
Members: Aayush Pandey- vocals, lead/riff guitars, composer, lyricist, Ravish Sundriyal-Rhythm guitars, Rahul Verma-Percussion, Rohan Sundriyal-Keyboard
Arcus is one of the innovative and redefined progressive rock genres.

The band is fronted by Aayush Pandey , who also is known for his work producing improvised music by combining several forms of music genres that include folk, alternative rock and progressive rock. Aayush had been playing and performing in 'Hard rock cafe' for about 2 years and got recognition from there itself.In 2007, Aayush composed several songs which were poetic with in- depth feeling outcomes of an individual. These songs were never released officially except for the song ”Won’t leave you” which was released on a smaller scale . Aayush won the best guitarist trophy at “GEMS” in 2013 
Ravish is capable of creating improvised rhythms and sound through the innovative acoustic guitar playing. Ravish has given various music concerts before focusing more on playing and singing Indian-Hindi composed songs. His one of the famous composed songs "TERI HI ADDAT" was a major town hit. The song was not released and promoted on the official background but was a town hit. Other composed songs by Ravish were wowed small town concerts. Apart from music Ravish has interest in DANCING as well. He was the official member of the dancing group called "PLAGUE" from 'University of petroleum and energy studies'. Ravish sacrificed his dancing career for his in-depth passion for music and hence contributed immensely in the formation of the band "ARCUS".

Rahul verma is an extremely talented percussionist who is skilled in playing most of the percussion instruments. His major skill lies in playing the Indian Instrument- "DHOLAK" in which he is capable of improvisation of classical beats giving it a touch of "western" folk sound. He has played in various talent hunt shows and even gave a guest performance at GEMS 2012 for which he was appreciated as the most innovative percussionist.

Rohan Sundriyal younger brother of Ravish Sundriyal started impressing the audiences at the age of 14 with his impressive unique improvised style of playing. He started off by covering band covers like linkin park, seether etc and started giving stage performances for which he was recognized as a youngest professional keyboardist. He performed at "NIC Fest" in 2012 at St.Joseph school, Dehradun and gave numerous other performances.

Arcus was founded as a self-indulgent creative outlet for Aayush and Ravish, and the first major release is “Hope-theme song” from the album “hope”and studio experiments which bears little relation to the band's current sound. Aayush and Rahul(percussionist) expanded the sound, creating the progressive rock/folk fusion on the 2-minute long single “Hope” which is one of the songs to focus on a long initial soothing start of the song with the building pace through layers of guitars and keyboards in Arcus’s music.

Arcus however continues to produce more soulful-construct, morale based songs with an upcoming song “Heartache” from the album”Hope”. The band will continue to evolve and confront the expectations of the band's fans from album to album.

The promising members of Arcus (Aayush,Ravish,Rahul,Rohan) will continue to release personified and human emotion-driven songs focusing on the phases in an individual's life.

The seeds of the idea that led to ‘Hope’ came to Aayush Pandey as he faced certain obstruction in his life that almost led to an unstable state of mind . Not many know about it but family thought it better to be kept private and even though family was at support , it was difficult to emerge out from the tackling and unstable situation. As time passed, hope to rise again, to make a new start followed by intense determination and hard struggle led him to stabilize his ways. Hope was the result of what he is now and this was the initial point of “ Hope” to evolve with its album to encourage and embed determination into the hearts of people to convey what it takes to fall and rise again with a will burning inside.

ARCUS –“don’t let the fire die and it gets better and higher with time as we all keep crossing the stepping stones in our lives. Live each day with a hope of determination and you’ll get your dreams done....!!!”

The Arcus