Sylosis

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Sylosis are a British heavy metal band from Reading, Berkshire formed in 2000. They have used various genres in their music over the years with their first 2 EP's and debut album. They base themselves on 1980's thrash metal.

They were formed in late 2000 with original member Josh Middleton when they were back in school, as a bunch of kids who just wanted to play metal, mainly old school thrash and death metal. Over the years they went through various lineup changes, playing only a few gigs due to the members being unable to drive and being in school, also no underground metal scene at the time. Sylosis released couple of EPs released in the UK on a small indie label, In at the Deep End Records. In November, 2007 Sylosis got an email from Nuclear Blast saying they'd love to work with the band and signed to them a month later, in which their debut album was released on October 24th 2008.

Lead guitarist Josh Middleton was quoted as saying on an interview with About.com:

"The foundation of our sound is old school Bay Area thrash. We don't downtune and we don't play breakdowns. We do like to incorporate lots of different metal styles and textures into our music. We like make all of our songs really epic. We like progressive stuff, brutal stuff and melodic stuff."

Their debut album Conclusion of an Age has a lot of themes, but is generally not a concept album. Lyrically, the album deals with the end of the human race, in how nature reclaims the earth again. The artwork shows a world living with the human race. There are no religious beliefs behind the wrtitings however. After recording the debut album guitarist Gurneet Ahluwalia quit the band to rejoin his old band Viatrophy, also from Reading. In his place ex-guitarist Alex Bailey of Viatrophy joined Sylosis, ready for the early 2009 European tour with The Black Dahlia Murder, Cephalic Carnage and Psycroptic.

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Current Members:

Jamie Graham - Vocals
Josh Middleton - Guitar
Alex Bailey - Guitar
Carl Parnell - Bass
Rob Callard - Drums

Past Members:

Adam Mayes - Vocals
Dan Peirce - Vocals
Gurneet Ahluwalia - Guitar

Discography:



Casting Shadows (2006)(EP)



The Supreme Oppressor (2008)(EP)



Conclusion of an Age (2008)(Album)

Sources:

- Sylosis Wikipedia
- Sylosis MySpace
- YouTube Account