Sithu Aye started playing guitar at age 12. He wrote and recorded his first album
Cassini using software
amp modellers and his laptop in his university's dormitory. Subsequently, many of his following releases were written and recorded while studying
Physics at
University of St Andrews, such as
Invent the Universe,
Isles EP and
26. Sithu wrote and produced his EP
26 over the course of four days to release it on 26 June 2013, which marked his 23rd birthday as well as the day he graduated with a
Master's degree in Physics. After his graduation Sithu Aye worked as a Technology Consulting Analyst for
Deloitte until 2016. In this time period he wrote and recorded
Pulse,
Senpai EP and
Set Course for Andromeda. With the release of the latter he announced quitting his job and pursuing a full-time career as a musician. A month after quitting his job, he went on a Japan tour with
Protest the Hero. During 2018, he took a break from touring to write his album
Homebound, In 2019 he headlined a tour in the UK in support of his album
Homebound and toured Europe supporting
Intervals. He also worked on a follow-up to his
Senpai EP series, which he announced to be more of a full-length album this time and accompanied by a
Visual Novel themed digital story booklet. where he also announced his new album
Senpai III to be released on 8 January 2021 on all platforms except patreon, where it was released immediately for all supporters of a certain tier. With 10 songs
Senpai III is the first full-length album of the Senpai series and is also intended to be the last. The album also stands out from his other releases by the music itself not being the singular focus, since it contains a digital
novella, telling a continuous story with each chapter being accompanied by the correspondingly titled song. During 2021, Sithu Aye announced he was starting his work on a new EP which was supposed to be taking a different approach than his usual Progressive Metal style and instead aiming for the genre of
Jazz fusion and
Funk. In the same year, 29 November 2021, Aye released
10 Years: Remixes and Reimaginings, which contains 10 songs from across various previous releases and which have been rerecorded and rearranged in new and different styles of music. On 15 October 2022, he released
Re:Invent the Universe (10th Anniversary Remaster), which is a remix and remaster of his 2012 album
Invent the Universe. After having released a full song preview in 2023 exclusive to Patreon subscribers, in 2024 he eventually declared the discontinuation of his work on the Jazz fusion EP in favor of a different EP, to feature his signature Progressive Metal sound. Following this, on 24 March 2024 Aye announced the title, cover artwork and release date of the then upcoming EP
Kindness and published its first single
Run it Down.
Zero Sum Groove was released as the second single on 21 April 2024 alongside a music video filmed and directed by his brother Kaung-Myat Aye. On 11 May 2024
Kindness was released, which marks Sithu Aye's first release featuring the guitars being recorded using real
amplifiers instead of
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