Sylosis is without a doubt the best metal band of 2008. I challenge anyone to show me a band with better riffs, drums, vocals, and song composition. I can name a handful of bands that excel in one or two of these areas, but Sylosis is the full package. The main verse and chorus riffs for this song are pretty simple technically, but the melody is ridiculous. Anyone can write a metal riff with a little practice, but that melodic rhythm is where the true writing happens. It’s ironic that I love this band so much considering their song composition talent makes me feel like less of a man.

Vocals are really important as well. You can have a band that is instrumentally awesome, but has a really lame vocalist. Vocals can take as much away from a song as they can give it. Mikael Stanne from Dark Tranquillity still holds the number one place in my books for metal vocals. But Jamie from Sylosis is giving him a run for his money. Jamie’s ability to go from a deep long growl to a high pitched scream within a single line and make it sound so amazing is brilliant. His singing voice is just as insane, as you can hear in the chorus of Transcendence.

I usually post music videos, but this is off of a brand new album. Check after the break for my second favorite song from the album Conclusion of an Age.

I saw these guys live a couple months back. They are pretty good live. They came out after and were signing peoples merch, so that was pretty sweet. The bigger bands never do that.

Lyrics

I wonder if we’ll smile in our coffins
While loved ones mourn the day,
The absence of our faces

Living, laughing eyes awake. Is this too much for them to take?
Too young for ones conclusion, the lifestyle won.
Such values you taught your son.

(pre) That’s how.
Look at me now.

(chorus) I’m broken.
Inherit my life.

One day we all will die, a cliched fact of life.
Force fed to make us heed. Inbred to sponge our bleed.

Every warning, a leaking rubber,
A poison apple for mingled blood.
Too young for ones delusion, the lifestyle cost
Venereal mother embrace the loss.

(pre) That’s how
Look at you now.

(chorus) You’re broken
Inherit your life.

(pre) That’s how. Look at us now.

(chorus)

Lyrics

It’s true there were better ones
That led their people
It’s true there were better ones
To lead their country
It’s true there were better ones
Who cared for this world
It’s true there were better ones
But who are we to change
Without the strength of all
The nations will crumble

Feed lies for war
bring the nations to it’s knees
Risking worldy structure and integrity

The balance of our kind
Controlled by hatred, distorted truth and lies
United is the only way to stand
United is the only way to stand

Leaders of the free world
Lead into the land of the un-free

God sent politics
Hammered down with a fist too bold
Play the council of pawn
in the quest for total control

Free us of this Hate
Free us from this Hate

Take over the world
Does hate mean Freedom?
Divide our home
Does hate mean freedom?
Take over the world
Does hate mean freedom?

Does hate mean freedom?
Take over the world, divide our world.

Lyrics

The unsaid tone of weak despair
fail to resonate
frayed ends of our binding threads
will disintegrate

By laws our physique state
failure to communicate

None too sentient
Hear no, see no works its magic
Against all function

Ongoing choices
the trials will end
filter the nonsense
and laugh at what’s left
Indecision/non vision
what matters taken away

Look at the shell that is you
Empty, fragile, weak
Soon the battle is over
Lost to Apathy

So overcome with pointless tears
to test pain receptors
nothing matters ever here
put up a non reaction

These eyes will never see
covered up from reality

Look at the shell that is you
Empty, fragile, weak
Soon this battle is over
Lost to Apathy

The unknown world that you deny
no priority
Cannot fail if you never start
How predictable

I want to know
Where did it end?
for madness to start
Always the sceptic
Never be part
Introvertive /non descriptive
It matters not

Look at the shell that is you
Empty, fragile, weak
Soon this battle is over
Lost to Apathy

Lyrics

It’s what she meant with open ends
The scaled cracks our numbered and counting down
There is no contact – so shrive away
She cannot save it from herself

Rather be somewhere else
Rather be someone else
Her judgement from the mirror meets
With shut reaction
Its conviction is cause to her decline

The quiet touch of addicted glamour
Dates the tyrant child unsatisfied a portrait’s trash
Attempts corruption to marvel the ovations of thoughtlessness

White knuckled substance – no self-control
Ghost faced smiles – cut ear to ear
Strung out reprisal -dated and covered in
Dope sick afternoon simplicity

Hedonistic escape to shroud her symptoms decrements the ordinary

She can shatter
She can break – forever young
The girl in the glass is one of us
Hurt it more to make her yours
The girl is interrupted

Immense illusion can end transmission till death will she part

Kill it and put it to rest
She’s never coming back