PSOTY

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PSOTY
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PSOTY in April 2019. From left to right: Steve McKenna, Dale Vinten, Scott Gowan and Adrian Lawson.
Background information
Also known as
  • P S O T Y
  • Pet Slimmers of the Year
Origin Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England
Genres
Years active2008–present
Labels
Members
  • Scott Gowan
  • Steve McKenna
  • Dale Vinten
  • Adrian Lawson

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]

Contents

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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