PSOTY

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PSOTY
four musicians in the forest
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
OriginPeterborough, Cambridgeshire, England
Genres
WorksPSOTY discography
Years active2008–present (on hiatus since 2019)
Labels
Members
  • Scott Gowan
  • Steve McKenna
  • Dale Vinten
  • Adrian Lawson

PSOTY (originally known as Pet Slimmers of the Year) are 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]

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]

Due to the band members living in various countries of Europe at the time Sunless was released (and during its composition), and with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic shortly afterward, PSOTY was unable to tour and only played a single concert to promote the album. The album-release show was held at the Nambucca in London on 7 December 2019. It remains the band's most recent live event, and the band has been put on hold since then.[32][33]

Members

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  • Scott Gowan - guitar, vocals (2008–present)
  • Steve McKenna - bass guitar (2008–present)
  • Dale Vinten - drums (2008–present)
  • Adrian Lawson - guitar (2016–present)

Timeline

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Discography

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Main article: PSOTY discography

Studio albums

EPs

  • Why Won't You Die (self-released, 2008)
  • Pet Slimmers of the Year (Lost Children, 2009)
  • ...And the Sky Fell (Lost Children, 2010)

References

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