With the tide turned toward their favor, SikTh reunited to perform at the 2014 Download Festival, which led to headlining gigs at the Euroblast Festival in Germany, as well as a tour of their native UK in fall 2014. In their absence, the Djent movement began and fans rediscovered the band, with many musicians finding inspiration and a crop of news bands – Protest The Hero, TesseracT, Animals As Leaders, and Periphery just to name but a few – emerging as newcomers to Metal and followers of the SikTh way. In May 2008 – just short of a decade-long career – SikTh announced their split, naming as a key factor the departure of Vocalists Mikee Goodman and Justin Hill, and the remaining band-members’ inability to fill the vacated vocalist positions. 94 on the UK Albums Chart and led to the band once again performing at the Download Festival in Donington Park. Their sophomore follow-up, 2006’s consonance-filled Death of a Dead Day, peaked at No. Their debut album, The Trees Are Dead & Dried Out Wait for Something Wild, was released in 2003, and saw the band performing at the Download Festival as well as touring Japan with Anthrax and Killswitch Engage. Key figures in the Djent scene, SikTh formed in 1999 in Watford, England. Do you dream in fairies and demons? Can you hear the moon? Are you open to some seriously frenzied, sonic observations on life and humanity, all set to a frenetic pace from some of the best practitioners of Djent today? If so, then SikTh have what you crave with The Future In Whose Eyes?, released on June 2nd via Millennium Night.
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