Sylosis

Sylosis
Sylosis live at Sonisphere Festival 2010
Background information
Origin	Reading, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Genres	Thrash metal,progressive metal,melodic death metal
Years active	2000–present
Labels	Nuclear Blast
Website	sylosis.com
Members	Josh Middleton Carl Parnell Ali Richardson Alex Bailey
Past members	Jamie Graham Dave Anderson Ben Hollyer Dan Peirce Glen Chamberlain Richard Zananiri Gurneet Ahluwalia Rob Callard Chris Steele Jay Colios-Terry

Sylosis is a British heavy metal band from Reading, Berkshire. After getting signed to Nuclear Blast Records in 2007, the band have released four studio albums, a live album and two EPs. Their fourth album Dormant Heart was released on 12 January 2015.

Sylosis was formed in 2000 by guitarist Josh Middleton and bassist Carl Parnell who began playing extreme metal with other friends from school. Sylosis released a couple of EPs in the UK on a small indie label, In at the Deep End Records. In December 2007 Sylosis signed with Nuclear Blast Records, and they released their debut album in October 2008.

On the style of their debut album, Conclusion of an Age, Middleton remarked, "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." After recording their debut studio album, guitarist Gurneet Ahluwalia was replaced by ex-Viatrophy guitarist Alex Bailey, ready for the early 2009 European tour with The Black Dahlia Murder, Cephalic Carnage and Psycroptic.

Sylosis were one of the opening acts on the Tuborg (third) stage at 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, but was cancelled as the band were offered an opening slot on the Dragonforce UK tour in November/December 2009.