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Metal Cursemas Day 18


SikTh

Genre: Progressive
Location: London

Exactly how do you define SikTh? It’s Metal, it’s progressive, it’s chaotic, it’s breaking boundaries and it’s from the UK!

SikTh are on a mission to bring originality back to heavy music, and it’s not a surprise that they have succeeded in this endeavour. With support from organisations such as the BBC, MTV, Kerrang! and Download Festival behind their domination of the world's listening habits, SikTh have established themselves as a band that took the world, confused it a little and then pummelled it into submission with their eccentric brand of technical progressive Metal. And the record buying public has lapped it up in droves!

You can’t pigeon hole music like SikTh’s, it simply defies being classified. It’s a many armed beast with all manner of odd shaped spikey weapons of destruction, that has a penchant for playing cats cradle with the strands of your sanity before offering you a cup of tea! It's madness, it shouldn't work but it does, and it continues to break new ground against the limited musical horizons of many of their peers.

SikTh are currently looking for a new lead vocalist and writing material for the follow up album to 2006's hugely acclaimed, “Death of a Dead Day.” Expect the unexpected, but as we’ve learned with SikTh, don't expect anything you’re expecting!

Reviews
Thus far, the obvious genius of SikTh has borne fruit that has been both ridiculous and amazing in equal measure. The simpler but more effective style of Death Of A Dead Day shows that these Brits are ready to hit the big time. Drowned in Sound
Sikth are unique, are amongst the saviours of heavy music and are a huge promise for the future. Variable as System Of A Down or Dillinger Escape Plan, whacked out like Primus or Mr Bungle, Messhuggah, progressive like Watchtower, brutal like Slayer, cult like Sabbat, modern like Mudvayne, timeless like Incubus or the Lostprophets and at times jazzy like Miles Davis, John Coltrane or Charles Mingus. I know, hard to envision, but Sikth combine so much musical knowledge that they can get a bit uncanny at times. The Metal Observer

What other bands say about SikTh
Easily the best progressive metal band in the UK. A huge influence on us and can’t wait to see what they do next. Dez, The Safety Fire
SikTh is creativity gone insane, if you thought technical music couldn't be beautiful think again. 'Death of a Dead Day' is an adventure through melodic changes, insane adapting vocal styles and more ideas per second than you can imagine! Andy, Xerath

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