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Ulysses Siren formed in 1983 in South San Francisco when Steve Pickering and Manny Lopez got together in their senior year in high school and decided to form a band.

Ulysses Sirens demo Terrorist Attack in 1985 became the ..1 selling underground demo at the Record Vault and radio play on KUSF.

The band reunited in 2002 when Relentless Records decided Ulysses Sirens 80s demos were worth pressing. The underground popularity grew and Ulysses Siren received strong reviews with publications such as Metal Hammer Greece comparing Ulysses Siren to early Slayer. Ulysses Siren decided to reform for a concert in the park called Tital Wave in San Francisco 2002. As the fighting pursued even before the show the band disbanded again after the show.

Like raising the Titanic, Ulysses Siren rose again towards the end of 2005 with the following line-up. Manny Lopez on vocals, Steve Pickering & Jon Torres on guitars, Joe J on Bass and the band recruited long time friend Will Carroll on drums.




A band with 2 demos in the 80s and a compilation album in 2003 but believe me, if they released that album in the 80s they would have been up there with Slayer/Exodus/Overkill. The songs are no less than amazing! All of them! It's pure thrash mania! My personal favourite songs are Above the Ashes and No Trace Of Shame. The starting screams in both songs are surely coming from Hell or something, this guy in next to Tom Araya and his Angel Of Death or even Necrophobic screams

Pure underground, agreesive, technical, old-school Thrash Metal.

piperman wrote:http://www.ulysses-siren.com/
http://www.myspace.com/ulyssessirensf

Ulysses Siren formed in 1983 in South San Francisco when Steve Pickering and Manny Lopez got together in their senior year in high school and decided to form a band.

Ulysses Sirens demo Terrorist Attack in 1985 became the ..1 selling underground demo at the Record Vault and radio play on KUSF.

The band reunited in 2002 when Relentless Records decided Ulysses Sirens 80s demos were worth pressing. The underground popularity grew and Ulysses Siren received strong reviews with publications such as Metal Hammer Greece comparing Ulysses Siren to early Slayer. Ulysses Siren decided to reform for a concert in the park called Tital Wave in San Francisco 2002. As the fighting pursued even before the show the band disbanded again after the show.

Like raising the Titanic, Ulysses Siren rose again towards the end of 2005 with the following line-up. Manny Lopez on vocals, Steve Pickering & Jon Torres on guitars, Joe J on Bass and the band recruited long time friend Will Carroll on drums.




A band with 2 demos in the 80s and a compilation album in 2003 but believe me, if they released that album in the 80s they would have been up there with Slayer/Exodus/Overkill. The songs are no less than amazing! All of them! It's pure thrash mania! My personal favourite songs are Above the Ashes and No Trace Of Shame. The starting screams in both songs are surely coming from Hell or something, this guy in next to Tom Araya and his Angel Of Death or even Necrophobic screams

Pure underground, agreesive, technical, old-school Thrash Metal.

Indeed! One of the less known offsprings of the Bay Area who really deserved wider recognition - similar to Cold Steel, or Mercenary in that aspect. Musicianship-wise I always saw them as pre -85 Slayer meets Blind Illusion without the overt "punch" of the former or the overt technicality of the latter, but rather neatly balancing these elements. You listen to "The Reich" and you're like holy shit this is like hearing Slayer's "Necrophilliac" overdubbed on top of Blind Illusion's "Blood Shower". REALLY good shit, eh?