After a couple of EPs, the UK’s Sylosis is prepared to unleash their brand of extremity upon the masses. Their debut CD is Conclusion Of An Age. Guitarist Josh Middleton introduces us to the band, their sound, upcoming tour plans, his musical background and more.
Chad Bowar: Give us a brief history of Sylosis.
Josh: We formed back in late 2000 as a bunch of kids at school. We just wanted to play metal and mainly loved thrash and old school death metal. Over the years we went through various lineup changes. We couldn't really tour much for ages because of our age (we couldn't drive and there wasn't much of an underground scene for our kind of music). We did a couple of EPs released in the UK on a small indie label. In November, 2007 we got an email from Nuclear Blast saying they'd love to work with us and we signed to them a month later.
Describe the sound of Conclusion Of An Age.
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.
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