Born in 1995, the line-up of Mikkel Bender, Frederik Ammitzbøll and Søren Dahlgaard are formed on the guitar/ Bass / drums structure of a classic power rock trio yet almost immediately diverged on their own idiosyncratic path. Although they had been brought up on a diet of heavy metal and hard rock (in fact the band grew from the ashes of famed "hair" trio "Maimed Moose"), the (thankfully) shorn members found the increasing influence of the burgeoning electronic scene too difficult to ignore, and the band soon found an almost twisted pleasure in repeating the same riffs for hours and hours, this despite the risk of bleeding fingers!! Needing to go one step further, the concept of combining the hard-assed riffs and drumming with the structures and soundscapes of electronic music was born - still the very foundation of Silo-music to this day.

With the establishment of Studio Silo, the music that would appear on the band's debut album "Instar" was soon underway and eventually reached the ears of Swim label manager/Wire frontman Colin Newman. Amazed to hear a band that employed an out-rock aesthetic yet still actually rocked, he went on to help produce Instar which was released on Swim in 1998 to great critical acclaim. With its "monotonous" structures, perfectly hushed vocals, distinctive guitar sound and non 4/4 drum patterns (the times signatures of which were described by one music journalist as resembling West-Indian cricket scores!) plus the fact that this was a rock album made entirely on a computer, it presented a music quite unlike anything else. In fact NME argued that Silo was the only interesting act to come out of Denmark, a fact which, at the time being, was not entirely untrue (unless you regard Aqua as interesting of course). Instar also featured the now classic track "Templates", later to appear as the first instalment in Swim's 7" series (a later instalment being the more recent K2/ Prime Movers "boss remix" which is the current 7"), the video for which was played numerous times on MTV's Alternative Nation. Several live performances around Europe followed, most notably alongside Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Sigur Ros, Pole and Trans-Am as well as invitations to play Labradford's Second Festival of Drifting, Chicago's Noise Pop festival and last years tragic Roskilde Festival.

2001 sees the release of Silos second album Alloy, arguably their finest work to date. Even more so than Instar, this album is a unique and completely homogeneous distillation of the best of the textures, rhythms, moods and abstractions available within computer assisted production, as much kick-ass guitar rock as it is minimal techno. Refining the Silo aesthetic (which encompasses more than just music check out the cover art for "Alloy" and the Silo website ) this album truly approaches the notion of the sublime, at once intensely beautiful as well as disturbing (sometimes even scary), with massive drums/guitars and dense soundscapes overwhelming the listener. Praised in numerous reviews Alloy has been described as being "brutally persuasive" and a "benchmark release".

Check the official silo website at www.posteverything.com/silo

(Biography Last updated 1 January 1995)