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 crossed with modern styles of music like metalcore. [1]

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History

Sylosis was formed in late 2000 by 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. ^[2] 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 a couple of EPs 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 24 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." ^[3]

Their debut album Conclusion of an Age has a lot of themes 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. ^[5]

Sylosis were one of the opening acts on the Tuborg (third) stage at the infamous Download Festival held at Castle Donington, along with appearances at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, and an opening slot on the Bohemia stage at Sonisphere Festival. A UK headline tour has been announced for October/November 2009, along with an appearance at the Hellfire Festival at the Birmingham NEC.

Members

• Jamie Graham - vocals
• Josh Middleton - guitar
• Alex Bailey - guitar
• Carl Parnell - bass
• Rob Callard - drums

Former members

• Ben Hollyer - vocals
• Adam Mayes - vocals
• Gurneet Ahluwalia - guitar
• Dan Peirce - vocals
• Glen Chamberlain - vocals
• Richard Zananiri - guitar
• Dave Anderson - vocals
• Jay Colossus - drums
• Chris Steele - drums

Discography

Extended plays

• Casting Shadows (2006), In at the Deep End
• The Supreme Oppressor (2008), In at the Deep End

Studio albums

• Conclusion of an Age (2008), Nuclear Blast

References

1. http://heavymetal.about.com/od/interviews/a/sylosis.htm
2. http://www.metalsucks.net/2009/02/02/sylosis-interview/
3. Describe the sound of Conclusion Of An Age. http://heavymetal.about.com/od/interviews/a/sylosis.htm
4. What are some of the lyrical subjects? http://heavymetal.about.com/od/interviews/a/sylosis.htm
5. Tour dates on myspace http://www.myspace.com/sylosis