Old school thrashers KRYPTOS announced the departure of their bassist and drummer, Jayawant Tewari and Ryan Colaco. The band has amicably split with the long standing members with this message posted on their Facebook page. The band also announced their replacement with Ganesh K taking on bass duties and Anthony Hoover on drums.

Greetings fellow metalheads. We have some major changes coming your way. The band has amicably parted ways with long standing members Jayawant Tewari and Ryan Colaco. We’d like to thank them for everything over the years, for their unwavering dedication and for all the fantastic times we shared. We wish them all the very best for the future and we’re sure they’ll kick ass in everything they do.

As the legendary Freddie Mercury once said, ‘The show must go on’ and we welcome back founding member Ganesh K. (Bevar Sea, Witchgoat) on bass and skin slammer Anthony Hoover (Witchgoat, Neolithic Silence) on drums.

Things have a strange tendency to come full circle especially since it was 15 long years ago, during this very month in 1998, that Kryptos first saw the light of day and now here we are 15 years later with the feeling that it has started all over once again.

Unfortunately we will not be playing any gigs until we get back up to speed but we will return with full force come December.

As always we’d like to thank each and everyone who has supported us over the last 15 years and we promise to keep the flag flying high for heavy metal over the next 15 years and beyond.

Cheers everyone.

Metal ‘til death!!!!

The new Kryptos lineup is

Nolan Lewis (Vocals, Rhythm guitar)
Rohit Chaturvedi (Lead guitar)
Ganesh K. (Bass)
Anthony Hoover (Drums)