Sylosis & Whitechapel

A metal double bill at O2 Academy Bristol, with Sylosis, the Reading band playing melodic death and thrash metal, alongside the Knoxville deathcore group Whitechapel. Tribal Gaze are also on the bill.

Sylosis is a British metal band from Reading, England, playing melodic death metal and thrash metal. Their first album, Conclusion of an Age, was released in 2008. Whitechapel is an American deathcore and death metal band formed in 2006 in Knoxville. Signed to Metal Blade Records, they released their first album, The Somatic Defilement, in 2007.

The two headliners sit at the heavier end of the metal scene: Sylosis draw on thrash and melodic death, while Whitechapel work within deathcore and death metal. Their pairing on one bill brings together two British and American groups with related but distinct approaches to extreme metal, with Tribal Gaze also appearing.

O2 Academy Bristol hosts concerts and shows in the city. The night will appeal to listeners who follow melodic death metal, thrash and deathcore, and to anyone wanting to hear how these styles sit side by side.