Collectively accounting for over 30 years of experience
playing in Rochester, NY's underground music scene, the three
members of Sulaco have perfected a uniquely schizoid vision of how
music should be played with their Willowtip debut, Tearing
Through The Roots. Fronted by guitarist Erik Burke, one of the
true godfathers of technical metal and mastermind behind zany
carnival-grinders Lethargy, Sulaco fuels its fractured, inverted
rhythms with a twittering riffing style that squirms and tinkles
like an orchestra of deranged dolphins in heat, squealing and
writhing rabidly between volcanic bass thrusts and runaway
blast-beat crescendos. Inspired by the likes of Breadwinner and
Human Remains, Tearing Through The Roots is an emblem for
creative, bonecrushing complexity that refuses to sacrifice the
groove or become declawed like so many in the post-Dillinger tech
metal landscape.