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Sylvus (THREE new songs posted)

About Me

Sylvus is an epic folk/black metal band from Toronto. Previously known as O'Faolain, a one-man project which eventually came to life as a live group in London, the band went through a number of lineup changes and was eventually reborn as Sylvus.

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Member Since: 08/04/2005
Band Website: sylvus.ca
Band Members: Darcy - guitars, vocals
Jeka - keyboards
Anastasia - guitars
Nathan - bass
Zakk - drums
Influences: Emperor, Bathory, Windir, Borknagar, Moonsorrow, Thyrfing, Vintersorg, Finntroll, Ensiferum
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Kylan Paassa video, as promised

Check it out here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRtDbOazxU8
Posted by on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:53:00 GMT

News of varying happiness

The happiest news comes first: last Saturday was AWESOME. Thanks everyone who came, we really had a blast despite being somewhat under the weather. Those who made it witnessed a unique event, with our...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:25:00 GMT

Two gigs to watch out for

Coming up on June 20th- less than two weeks from now- is our FREE gig with Bolero at Molly Blooms here in Toronto. We will be playing a couple tracks most of you haven't heard us play yet. We may even...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:37:00 GMT

Interview up from The Governor's Ball

Last week at Paganfest, I was interviewed by The Governor for an episode of The Governor's Ball in preparation for the Governor's Bash this Saturday, when we'll be playing with The Great Collapse and ...
Posted by on Thu, 07 May 2009 12:22:00 GMT

The REAL update

OK, I hope some of you enjoyed yesterday's joke. Here's the real deal- as previously mentioned, the EP will be 6 tracks and should come in under half an hour. We have no official order set out yet, bu...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:39:00 GMT

New SYLVUS album: "Folking Christ" to be released May 18th!

We've finished tracking our new album and intend to complete mixingthis weekend! I'm happy to say this epic, folky, viking masterpiece isby far our best output yet. Inspired by the cheery, lighthearte...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:18:00 GMT

EP recording, TYR show, new gig announced!

Three things this time around:1. As I mentioned before, we decided to completely start over on our new EP. We managed to complete all tracking over the course of one very intense weekend and are quite...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:03:00 GMT

Bad news (for now)

It looks like the EP is going to be delayed a while yet. We've had a lot of issues with what we recorded in Autumn, and decided we'd be better off just redoing the whole thing. Not exactly the kind of...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:25:00 GMT

Studio update!

Things are going pretty well with the new EP! All that remains to be tracked are vocals and keyboards. Hope to have this all done within a month from now, ready to be pressed. So far I'm reall...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:09:00 GMT

New EP on its way

Hot on the heels of our demo (we'll have more printed soon, I promise! Download it in the meantime...) we're going to start recording an EP on SATURDAY (as in 3 days from now). It's going to have 5 so...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:15:00 GMT