Rising techno metallers Sikth are to play The Corn Exchange in Newbury in February with Murder One and Drive Against Us.

'Salvage' - The Newbury Corn Exchange's weekly alternative rock event plays host to the intricate metalcore madness of up-and-coming Sikth on February 6th 2004.

The North London sextet first came to Salvage over two years ago, Sikth were among those bands on the underground just before UK Nu Metal really came of age.

Their Welsh contemporaries Lostprophets were the first to hit the big time but it looks like 2004 will be Sikth's year.

Last year saw the release of their first, full-length album, 'The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait For Something Wild'.

The album went on to pick up some unprecedented coverage in the metal press.

It was awarded Rocksound's Album of the Month in October 2003, Big Cheese gave it five stars calling it a "Genius debut album from UK mentalists," and just about everyone else in the music press are hailing them as major players on the British scene.

Their frenetic, virtuoso metal sound stretches from the twisted darkness of Nick Cave, with a little of the angular punk of The Dillinger Escape Plan, to the straight up trad-thrash of Pantera.

Support comes from Murder One and local band Drive Against Us.

Sikth play The Corn Exchange in Newbury on Friday 6th February 2004. Tickets are priced at £7.50 in advance or £9.00 on the day. The box office can be contacted on 01635 522733.