Balyios

Balyios was formed by guitarist Ruan Malan and keyboardist Werner Boshoff in September 2010. Long-time friend and bassist Louis Kruger joined them shortly afterwards and after numerous auditions for a drummer, Frederik Nagel was added in November 2010 to complete the quartet. They have been making waves on the local South African metal scene ever since, playing at numerous festivities with various established artists in the region. The band had their first Western Cape tour in July 2011, where they played Metal4Africa’s Winterfest ‘11 along with South African Melodic Death metal legends, Sacrifist. The band will enter the studio in November 2011 to record their debut album.