Thy Art Is Murder, SikTh, and Pintglass Manchester Tickets, O2 Victoria Warehouse, 31 Jul 2026

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O2 Victoria Warehouse

Trafford Wharf Road, Trafford Park, M17 1AB, Manchester, UK

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Doors open: 23:59

Price: £59.00

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Thy Art Is Murder biography

Despite having a few lineup changes, Thy Art is Murder is Australian deathcore band from Blacktown, New South Wales since 2006.

Thy Art is Murder started in 2006 in Blacktown by vocalist vocalist Brendan van Ryn, guitarists Gary Markowski and Sean Delander, bassist Josh King and drummer Lee Stanton. They released their demo entitled “This Hole Isn’t Deep Enough for the Twelve of You” and released an EP in 2008 called “Infinite Death.” The band set out on extensive touring and after two years van Ryn departed the band; unfortunately it took a year for the band to find another lead singer, Chris “CJ” McMahon. Also, bassist Mick Lowe replaced King early in 2010.

On 16 July 2010 Thy Art is Murder released their first full-length album entitled “The Adversary.” In 2011 founding member and lead guitarist Gary Markowski departed from the band and Delander decided to switch from guitar to bass, making way for Andy Marsh and Tom Brown on guitar. After touring in Europe, the band went back into the studio to record “Hate” which they released on 18 October 2012. “Hate” debuted at number 35 on the Aria Charts and reached number 1 on AIR. After the release of the album, the band set out on tour and made a number of appearances at music festivals. In early 2014 the band made headlines when McMahon encouraged fans to get onstage during their set on Brisbane leg of theSoundwave Festival tour resulting in the band getting dropped from the tour. This however, did not stop their forward movement and they continued to travel and play their live gigs.

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Thy Art is Murder is a five-piece death core band from New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. They have earned themselves such a loyal following over the last decade almost.

They launch into half an hour of some of the heaviest music I’ve ever heard. It literally sounds like a nightmare, or what you would imagine the biggest zombie monster’s voice to sound like. That C.J. McMahon sure has a hefty roar on him. He spends most of the set stood on top of monitors. This opening song is lead by pretty mid tempo beat, complete with double kick drum beats performing some machine gun blasting beats, in perfect sync with the dual guitars and bass guitar. “Shadow of Eternal Sin” is borderline orchestral at the start but then comes to it’s heavy inevitable breakdown, with McMahons terrifyingly deep screams.

This music would be perfect in horror movies, and I’m actually quite surprised that there’s not that much of it in music these days to be honest. I mean a song with the title “Whore to a Chainsaw” says it all really doesn’t it.

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Hailing from Watford, Sikth have been a band for a long time and they are at the forefront of the genre, progressive metal, almost being this side of the Atlantic Ocean’s answer to their contemporaries, Meshuggah. Their genre is tight machine gun blasts of music where the whole band play some of the most intricate riffs in perfect sync with each other, of course matching the amazing quantized recordings that they lay down.

This band hasn’t released anything new in years but announce this evening on their comeback tour that they are working on a new EP that should be out next year. One of their biggest tracks this evening is a song called “Scent of the Obscene” which reels in the audience massively as it is the song of their set that every single person who bought a ticket knows. It even charted, over ten years in the UK singles chart, making it to number 78, which lets be honest, is pretty astonishing for a metal band.

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