Syris
| Syris | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | South Elgin , Illinois , United States |
| Genre (s) | Progressive metal , power metal |
| founding | 1993 |
| resolution | 2000 |
| Founding members | |
| Nick Bucci (1993-1996) | |
| Scott Payne † (1993–1996) | |
| Marty Malcolm (1993-1996) | |
| Sean Brown (1993-2000) | |
| Last occupation | |
singing |
Scott Huffman |
guitar |
Paul Speredes |
bass |
Rob Such |
Drums |
Sean Brown |
| former members | |
guitar |
Jason Schultz (1993-1996) |
Syris was an American progressive metal band from South Elgin , Illinois , that formed in 1993, re-formed as a power metal band after the main songwriter's death in 1996 , but was disbanded in 2000 after its disintegration.
history
In 1983 , in South Elgin, in the Chicago metropolitan area, guitarist Scott Payne founded the Queensrÿche and Fates Warning band, Syris, with bassist Marty Malcolm and drummer Sean Brown . The name means “throne” or “sun” in old Persian , which is supposed to be a coincidence, since a melodious word was simply invented. In order to be able to play double-barreled riffs and alternating solos, Jason Schultz was accepted as the second guitarist in the band. In the same year an untitled demo with three songs was created, which is simply quoted as "Demo" or "Syris". Favored by the wave of success from Dream Theater and Queensrÿche, the sales of the tape were in the four-digit range. This impressed the Essen label Shark Records , which signed a contract for three albums with the bearer of hope as a precaution. In 1995 the debut album Syris was released , which contains all three demo pieces. In order to serve the market in Europe , Japan and the USA and to establish oneself there, it should quickly go on an intercontinental tour, but Payne fell ill with a brain tumor and died shortly afterwards in September 1996, so that everything came to a standstill. Bucci switched to the building materials trade , Schultz and Malcolm said goodbye without specifying a goal. Drummer Brown used the last few days together with Payne to discuss the band's future. At the end of the year he put together a new Syris team. It included the singer Scott Huffman, who had approached him because of his metal-like appearance, the guitarist Paul Speredes and the bassist Rob Such, all three of whom knew each other from earlier band times. Brown justified the continued use of the name with the intention of doing so in memory of Payne. The album Unseen Forces was released in the same year on the small label abs Records . One tour failed due to the modest financial means of the label and the band. Only concerts in the region were possible, of which there were a few. This was followed by tribute statements in the true sense of the word, i.e. cover versions of role models, namely in 1998 Crazy Train for the Ozzy Osbourne tribute album Legend of a Madman and 2000 Wishing Well for the Black Sabbath tribute album Dehumanized Witch . Speredes and Huffman were working on their debut album with the Chicago band Spirit Web at the time. Speredes was still part of the line-up in 2003 when their second album was released, but Huffman - now in association with Such - launched Twelfth Gate . Rob Such has also organized the annual heavy metal festival Chicago Powerfest since 2000 . The planned third Syris album did not come because the musicians (except for Brown) had found more suitable fields of activity.
style
Rock-Hard editor Michael Rensen described the music by Syris as "traditional progressive metal in the style of old Queensrÿche / Fates Warning, refined with a dash of NWOBHM ".
Jürgen Tschamler said in the Break Out that when Syris played Geoff Tate (Queensrÿche) and Jim Mattheos (Fates Warning) together.
Wolfgang Schäfer wrote in his review for Rock Hard that the "first album [was] tending towards the Fates Warning corner", the "second album [was] a whole tad more straightforward, angry and aggressive".
The internet platform Vampster found in July 1998 that Unseen Forces was Power Metal à la 80s.
Discography
- 1993: demo (demo)
- 1995: Syris (Shark Records)
- 1998: Unseen Forces (abs Records)
Individual evidence
- ^ Syris - Meaning of Syris. babynamespedia.com, accessed February 3, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d Michael Rensen: Syris . Double-barreled plague control. In: Rock Hard . No. 104 , January 1995, p. 66 f .
- ↑ a b c d e Syris. [Band interview]. (No longer available online.) Nissan.fr, archived from the original on February 20, 2014 ; Retrieved February 3, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Spirit Web. Biography. (No longer available online.) Metalinside.de, archived from the original on February 21, 2014 ; Retrieved February 3, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jürgen Tschamler: Syris . Syris. In: Break Out . 6/95 (August / September), 1995, pp. 50 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Schäfer: Syris . Unseen Forces. In: Rock Hard . No. 133 , June 1998, pp. 114 .
- ↑ Fierce: SYRIS: Unseen Forces. vampster.com, July 7, 1998, accessed February 3, 2014 .
