Sykofant
ARTIST: Sykofant
RELEASE: 2024
INTERVIEWEES: Emil Moen, Melvin Treider
Released in 2024, Sykofant represented a remarkable achievement for a new band. Everything about the album -- songwriting, playing, arrangement, production, even the packaging -- was redolent of a major label release. But Sykofant created and released their debut all on their own.
From the beginning, Sykofant were focused on creating an ambitious work. "When we started writing, it was to make something conceptual and something huge," says guitarist, singer and lyricist Emil Moen. The group wanted to start a project "in which the sole goal was to explore -- and be inspired by -- all the music we like," Moen says. "We could explore the connections between them, with no boundaries."