After playing in a doom/death metal band, Ingmar Regeling, Ralph de Boer and Arjen Lok decided to form Sidius in 2001 to explore some other musical grounds. Two other members were sought and found, Arjan Hoekstra and Henri Frietema, and the line-up was completed. After a few line-up changes (singer Arjan was forced to leave, Tom van Dijk from Dead Head came, sang, and went back to Dead Head) and even a demo which was recorded but never released, “The Devourment” saw the light of day in may 2005.

This mini-cd will grip you by balls and throat from the beginning to end. The furious death/thrash is aggressive, raw and catchy at the same time due to carefully placed melodic intervals, mid-tempo pieces and freaky bass-parts.

Guitar player Ralph de Boer took over the vocal duties after the departure of the former singers and he does a great job.

He’s got a sharp biting grunt that sometimes reminds of Henri “The Serpentking” Sattler of the mighty God Dethroned.
“Biting” is the key-word here I think. The drums are also very precise and sharp, hitting exactly where they need to and the same goes for the guitars; fast riffing and very acute stops. The only element in the whole picture which doesn’t sound pissed off is bass player Arjan with his loose sounding style, playing along with the guitars and also doing some weird ass stuff on his own.

It won’t take long I reckon before they will sign to a label because this is a professional looking and sounding product. Sidius is, along with bands like Thanatos and Detonation, another fine example of Dutch quality death/thrash metal.