Alright, c’mon butt – ready to get smacked round the head with precision riffs and post-apocalyptic fury? Because Sylosis ain’t here to mess about.
They’re British, brutal, and built to bring the end times – with thrash speed, death metal snarls, and proggy brainpower all wrapped up in one nuclear riff machine.
If you’ve ever thought “What if Metallica, Lamb of God and Gojira were all trapped in a blender during the end of the world?” – Sylosis is your band. 🧠💣🎸
🦾 WHO THE HELL ARE SYLOSIS?
Genre: Thrash Metal / Technical Metal / Progressive Death Thrash / Groove Metal
From: Reading, Berkshire, UK 🇬🇧
Formed: 2000 (Yes, they’ve been melting faces for two decades!)
Known For: Face-melting solos, sci-fi dread, and riffs sharper than a butcher’s cleaver.
They combine the chaos of Slayer with the melody of Trivium and the technicality of Meshuggah.
Basically: if Judgment Day had a soundtrack, Sylosis wrote it.
💣 THE RIFF COMMANDOS
- Josh Middleton – Guitars, Vocals, Songwriting Kingpin / Ex-Architects shredder, riff wizard, scream overlord
- Alex Bailey – Guitar / The other half of the apocalypse axe assault
- Conor Marshall – Bass / Low-end growl merchant
- Ali Richardson – Drums / Precision blast master from Bleed From Within
Josh Middleton IS Sylosis. Let’s be real. The man writes riffs like most people breathe air.
💿 DISCOGRAPHY – THE SOUNDTRACK TO THE END TIMES
☠️ Conclusion of an Age (2008)
🎧 Teras, After Lifeless Years
Vibe: Debut destruction. Thrash meets tech-death with no brakes.
Sharp, angry, and smarter than your average chug.
Proof that UK metal was very much alive and kicking down doors.
🔥 Edge of the Earth (2011)
🎧 Empyreal, Sands of Time, Altered States of Consciousness
Vibe: Bigger, bolder, more apocalyptic.
A concept album wrapped in melodic terror – this one put ‘em on the global metal map.
Empyreal? Still an absolute monster.
⚙️ Monolith (2012)
🎧 Fear the World, What Dwells Within
Vibe: Dark, atmospheric, prog-tinged doom-thrash.
Creepy intro? Check. Crushing riffs? Double check. Existential dread? Triple.
Like Doom Eternal got remixed by Devin Townsend.
🔥 Dormant Heart (2015)
🎧 Mercy, Servitude, Leech
Vibe: More groove, more focus, more rage.
They refined the chaos into slightly more digestible destruction.
Josh’s vocals hit new feral levels. And Mercy? That chorus? Pure carnage.
⚔️ Cycle of Suffering (2020)
🎧 Calcified, I Sever, Shield
Vibe: Comeback KING.
After Josh’s Architects stint, he returned with vengeance.
This album feels like a blade being sharpened on your spine.
Techy, thrashy, and deeply personal.
💀 A Sign of Things to Come (2023)
🎧 Deadwood, Poison for the Lost, Pariahs
Vibe: Sleek, brutal, cinematic.
Sylosis went epic, philosophical, and somehow even HEAVIER.
Proof they’re not stuck in the past – they’re rewriting the metal future.
🎧 THE RIFF REPORT’S ESSENTIAL SYLOSIS SLAUGHTER LIST:
🔪 Empyreal – The Sylosis anthem. Precision thrash perfected.
🔪 I Sever – Emotionally charged, technically unstoppable.
🔪 Deadwood – Crunchy, doomy, 100% mosh fuel.
🔪 Calcified – Groove city. Bang your damn head.
🔪 After Lifeless Years – Old-school fire with modern muscle.
🤘 WHY SYLOSIS ARE METAL’S BEST-KEPT WEAPON:
Because they:
- Fly the flag for British metal with no compromise
- Write riffs like their guitars are on fire
- Bring both muscle AND meaning
- Balance complexity with chaos
- Have survived line-up changes, industry nonsense, and a five-year hiatus – and STILL come back swinging harder than ever
Also: Josh Middleton could shred through time itself.
🔥 LIVE SHOWS – A TECHNICOLOR RIFF RIOT
Expect:
- Whiplash-inducing fretboard fireworks
- No-nonsense headbanging chaos
- The heaviest breakdowns you didn’t expect from a “thrash” band
- A crowd too stunned to speak but ready to throw down
- No gimmicks, no posing, just RIFFS, RIFFS, and more bloody RIFFS
🎤 FINAL VERDICT FROM THE RIFF REPORT:
Sylosis are the thinking metalhead’s wrecking ball.
They never chased trends, never needed gimmicks, and never stopped writing the most disgustingly tight riffs this side of Reading.
They fuse thrash, death, prog and groove into a sci-fi metalcore vortex of sheer sonic violence.
Want music that’s intelligent AND completely feral?
Want solos that make your jaw drop?
Want UK metal that actually scares the rest of the world?
Then turn the key, initiate the riff protocol, and join the Sylosis cycle.
🧠 The Riff Report is armoured up, stomping through the ruins of society with a guitar in one hand and a war cry in the other:
SYLOSIS – THE FUTURE SOUNDS LIKE FIRE.
And it’s bloody glorious. 🔥⚔️🇬🇧
