Today we’d like to introduce you to Tyler Syphertt.
Thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, how did you get started?
We started Wiltwither Original as a three-piece group of friends from a small country backwoods town with absolutely zero resources or metal scene. Through building connections around our surrounding scenes, we found our other bandmates through shows and went from there. Wiltwither is a collective that focuses on the tough realities people face and builds community around those hardships. We weave together topics like loneliness, abuse, loss, and depression while blending grim, noisy, unstable elements of metalcore, nu-metal, Thall, and hardcore because we believe we are all in pain and don’t have to do this life alone.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Being a band from the south, where most are from marginalized groups, you face a lot of adversity, from racism, sexism, transphobia, and downright hate. Regardless, we push through these obstacles with compassion, love, and inclusion because that’s what we strive for on and off the stage.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might need to be more familiar, what can you tell them about what you do?
I support musicians, businesses, and brands through design and audio. I mainly specialize and am known for merchandise design, but I am passionate about anything visually and audibly related to the music industry. I’ve had the honor to work with amazing artists and brands such as Silent Planet, Hail the Sun, and Hardcore Keem, alongside so many more, and it brings me so much joy working alongside some of my favorite artists and building with them from the ground up.
Is there anyone you’d like to thank or give credit to?
There are so many to thank and shout out for inspiring me individually and as a collective for Wiltwither; the list will be too long to read. Mainly Carlin Thompson, Jake Woodard, Dylan Hardy, Wyley Buck Boswell, Zeke Murphy, and Dylan Jones for putting so much into the local scene and raising amazing artists in the southeast. Shoutout to Loniel Robinson, Stephen Harrison, and Kedeem France for displaying black excellence in a white genre. And last but not least, shoutout to Silent Planet, Loathe, and Glass Cloud for fundamentally inspiring us to create music in the first place.
Image Credits
Brandon Christian (@brantakesphotos), Boogie (@imthe_boogieman)
