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English post-metal/post-rock band From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
PSOTY (originally known as Pet Slimmers of the Year) is an English post-metal/post-rock band from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.[4][5][3] The musical group was founded in January 2008, by guitarist and vocalist Scott Gowan, bass guitarist Steve McKenna, and drummer Dale Vinten,[6][7][8] who had previously played together in the progressive/post-rock band A Thousand Fires.[9][10] Second guitarist Adrian Lawson joined the band in October 2016. The band took its name from an annual award listed in the Schott's Almanac reference book.[9][10] In August 2014, the band's named was shortened to the acronym PSOTY, taken from the initials of Pet Slimmers of the Year.[2][10]
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PSOTY in April 2019. From left to right: Steve McKenna, Dale Vinten, Scott Gowan and Adrian Lawson. | |
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| Origin | Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England |
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| Discography | PSOTY discography |
| Years active | 2008–present |
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After recording a couple of demos (later released as the EP Why Won't You Die), the band released its eponymous EP in January 2009,[11][12] followed by the ...And the Sky Fell EP in June 2010, both on the British netlabel Lost Children Net Label.[13][14] Both Lost Children Net Label EPs were later re-issued on CDs by the band.[15][16] Pet Slimmers of the Year contributed the exclusive song "Brujas" to the Canadian record label Abridged Pause Recordings' Various Artists compilation Diluvian Temperals, which was released in August 2009.[17][18][10] The band later contributed another exclusive song, "Untitled," to Abridged Pause Recordings' Various Artists compilation Billowing Tempestus.[10][19]
In August 2013, Pet Slimmers of the Year released the single "Days Since I Disappeared" through Anchor Music,[7][5] on the strength of which the band was signed to a three-album deal by British extreme metal record label Candlelight Records.[4][20] The song later appeared on the record label's Various Artists compilation Candlelight Records Presents: Legion III, released in April 2014.[21] The band's debut full-length album, Fragments of Uniforms, was first released as a limited edition CD through Anchor Music in October 2013, before it was officially released via Candlelight Records on CD and digitally in April 2014.[22][23] A coloured double-LP version followed on Back on Black Records in June 2014.[22][23]
In 2016, PSTOY joined the Spinefarm Records and Universal Music Group roster,[24] and followed up with its sophomore full-length album, Sunless, released on CD, double-LP and digitally in September 2019.[25][26][27] The album was preceded by the singles "Oil Blood", released in July 2019,[28][29] and "King of Ephyra", released a week ahead of the album in September 2019.[30][31]
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