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SHEER
SHEER

or many of us, our first taste of music comes in the form of pop. Unless we’ve got super-cool
Fparents, that is. Skye Sweetnam, now AKA Sever, was signed up to a Popstars camp by her
mother as a child, where she learned how to be a pop star. She then went on to actually be one,
even opening for Britney Spears! But over time she discovered that her real passion lay with rock
and metal, and now Skye/Sever fronts Sumo Cyco, a kick-ass rock/metal band from Toronto,
Canada. With the provocative new album, ‘Opus Mar’, released on March 31st, these guys (Skye
is joined by Matt ‘MD13’ Drake, Ken ‘Thor’ Corke and touring drummer Matt Trozzi) and girl are
definitely moving mountains and listening to them is sheer bliss.

SUMO CYCO