# PSOTY

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**PSOTY** (originally known as **Pet Slimmers of the Year**) are an English [post-metal](/source/Post-metal)/[post-rock](/source/Post-rock) band from [Peterborough](/source/City_of_Peterborough), [Cambridgeshire](/source/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](/source/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](/source/...And_the_Sky_Fell)* EP in June 2010, both on the British [netlabel](/source/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](/source/Extreme_metal) record label [Candlelight Records](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Spinefarm_Records) and [Universal Music Group](/source/Universal_Music_Group) roster,[24] and followed up with its sophomore full-length album, *[Sunless](/source/Sunless_(album))*, 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](/source/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](/source/Nambucca_(venue)) 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

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

## Discography

Main article: [PSOTY discography](/source/PSOTY_discography)

**Studio albums**

- *[Fragments of Uniforms](/source/Fragments_of_Uniforms)* (Anchor/[Candlelight](/source/Candlelight_Records)/Back on Black, 2013)
- *[Sunless](/source/Sunless_(album))* ([Candlelight](/source/Candlelight_Records)/[Spinefarm](/source/Spinefarm_Records)/[Universal](/source/Universal_Music_Group), 2019)

**EPs**

- *Why Won't You Die* (self-released, 2008)
- *Pet Slimmers of the Year* (Lost Children, 2009)
- *[...And the Sky Fell](/source/...And_the_Sky_Fell)* (Lost Children, 2010)

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