-- Biography --

Thinline rose from the ashes of the legendary Columbia, Missouri metal band Surpace. The name thinline represents the very fine border between many things, such as love and hate, war and peace, and our musical styles.

Thinline's first show was at Eastside Live on December 28th, 2001. We released a 7-song self titled album on June 6th, 2003 after a year's worth of recording. Currently thinline is focused on performing as many shows as possible in the Columbia and surrounding area, building a solid local fan base, and recording new material. Recently, thinline has opened for Century Media artists Shadows Fall, Electra Records artists Sworn Enemy, and Relapse records' Dysrythmia. Future projects include touring and promotional materials such as stickers and wearables.

The current lineup for thinline includes Phil Smyser on guitars, Lane Kilgore on vocals, Cully Meier on drums, and bassist Wesley Hutto, whom we politely borrowed from our friends in Slugtrail. (B.C. from Slugtrail says that we are "Siamese bands - conjoined at the Wesley.") The three founding members of thinline - Phil, Lane, and Cully - were in Surpace, a straightforward, powerful band that had a very strong fan base in the Columbia area, and featured the legendary Big D on bass. In the years since Surpace's demise, Phil, Cully, and Lane have been honing skills and broadening horizons. In short, Surpace has grown up and evolved into a more diverse and even more powerful and emotional band. And, starting fresh, the Surpace name and all the ideas that went with it were dropped.

The goals of thinline are simple: world domination. The more people that know about and enjoy thinline, the better this world will be. Thinline is prepared to work hard toward this goal by constantly performing, as this is what thinline is all about.