65. Sylosis – "A Sign Of Things To Come"

I’m sure this is at least the sixth or even seventh remarkable return form for Sylosis. I have given up trying to recall how many times they have been written off and relegated to the where are they now files. 

“A Sign Of Things To Come” signals yet another bold change in direction for the rapidly becoming veteran Reading four piece. We have now arrived firmly in the territory of Slipknot in their Imperial phase of the early noughties when they could do no wrong. This sounds like the album that should have followed Iowa, it’s bold, brash and chocker full of remarkably commercial violent bankers. 

Sylosis have always known how to craft a tune but here they have excelled themselves and every song on the album feels like it is an anthem genetically designed to come at the  culmination of a headline set. I do really wish they would pick a musical direction and stay with it, on the strength of this album they may well have finally found their calling.