In 2014, Sylosis frontman Josh Middleton mentioned how he and his bandmates, uninspired by lots of their friends, turned to prog stars together with Kate Bush, Instrument, Opeth and Rush for inspiration as an alternative.
“Once I was younger I used to be obsessive about Instrument, and I used to be an enormous fan of actually heavy dying metallic. I keep in mind stepping into Opeth across the time of Blackwater Park, and studying interviews with Mikael Åkerfeldt turned me on to take a look at 70s prog rock.
I’d by no means related Instrument with prog, however after I bought into Opeth I found the extra classic-sounding prog rock. After Blackwater Park I bought Opeth’s stay DVD from Shepherd’s Bush 2002 which had Steven Wilson in it – my dad missed the entire prog rock factor, however he’s now obsessive about Steven. So we’ve Mikael Åkerfeldt to thank for introducing us to nice music!
In Sylosis we’re all enormous followers of Opeth, particularly albums like Ghost Reveries. They’re not an apparent affect, however they’ve impacted us rather a lot by way of making us take into consideration writing, incorporating completely different parts and concepts, and making an attempt to make it sound cohesive – not identical to a large number of two types that doesn’t actually work.
Edge Of The Earth [2011] was for us a extra progressive metallic album, however Dormant Coronary heart’ [2015] has extra traditional prog parts, particularly the final tune – the primary half may very well be by Genesis, which was the intention.
The older we get the extra we get into extra subtle and mature music, slightly than the stuff we grew up with. We’re actually impressed by numerous the old-school thrash stuff. However there aren’t many heavy bands today that basically do it for us, so we are inclined to hearken to Rush, Pink Floyd and many others, and it’s arduous for that to not creep in.
We don’t sound very similar to Opeth, however I feel what they’ve completed with dying metallic and traditional 70s prog is what we’re making an attempt to do – mixing up the old-fashioned thrash factor – and something melodic and progressive is an inspiration.
I watched a Kate Bush documentary the opposite day, and once they requested her, ‘Why do you write about all these things?’ she mentioned, ‘Nicely, I’m not very attention-grabbing!’ It’s the identical with us – all of us had regular upbringings, so we are inclined to gravitate extra in the direction of fantasy and prog impressed music. For those who can’t write from expertise, you need to look elsewhere!”
