Syk Releasing New Album "I-Optikon"

Italy-based progressive extreme metal collective Syk (pronounced "sick") will release a sophomore full-length album next month via Philip H. Anselmo's own Housecore Records.

Led by the nihilistic vocal assault of Dalila Kayros, Syk singes ears with a weighty, grim, complex, noise-laden blend of apocalyptic-sounding savagery. Forged by Stefano Ferrian and Federico De Bernardi Di Valserra (both former members of Psychofagist), the band released a debut Atoma via Czech imprint L'Inphantile Collective in 2014.

Following performances supporting the likes of Godflesh and Gigan, the band piqued the interest of Philip H. Anselmo's Housecore Records. Syk's impending sophomore offering, "I-Optikon," was produced by Anselmo and Stephen Berrigan, and features the debut appearances of recently recruited second guitarist Gianluca Ferro.

"I-Optikon" will see release through Housecore Records on December 2nd, 2016. Check out the title track below.

Offers the band: "'I Optikon' is about perspectives. What we see is not that different from a mere opinion; the world is nothing more than our perspective of it. Eventually you realize that you're not just a slave anymore, you are witnessing the whole."

1. I Optikon
2. Sinomi
3. Disintegrate
4. Mud
5. Fleshworms
6. Fong
7. Absense
8. The White Sun