AZUSA - Heart Of Stone (Official Audio)

Taken off Azusa's debut album "Heavy Yoke", released November 16 via Indie Recordings.

Members of Extol, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Sea + Air joined their creative forces and will sonically shock you with one of most experimental and mesmerizing releases of this year!

A carnival of contrast, Azusa make captivating music with unconventional nerve. Uniting the complementary skills of its members, Azusa’s sound is a thrash-fusion tour de force. Can you imagine Kate Bush fronting Slayer; Death collaborating with Annette Peacock? These allegedly incongruent influences dissolve seamlessly in an alluring sonic alchemy. Uncompromisingly experimental, Azusa’s curated approach showcases each member's unique strengths as a reaction to previous endeavors, more so than an extension of them. Reflecting on life’s existential mysteries, Azusa’s lyrics seek to explore cognitive dissonances at the crossroads of upbringing, mysticism, belief and betrayal. Defying expectations by embracing contradiction, Azusa finds strength in vulnerability, harmony in dissonance and melody in discord.

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[Nathankthanks]

It's super interesting now that we're seeing these post-extol bands come out, we get to reverse engineer which members were producing which aesthetics.

[matthewmalloy]

Aligned chaotic-melodic. I like it a lot.

[alekrunko]

These vocals are sick. So refreshing to hear a girl doing thrash vocals. More please!

[wave]

The vocal by Eleni Zafiriadou is absolutely stunning; Dynamic, powerful, raw, pristine and delivering with some swagger. I've never heard a female vocalist anywhere near this. Closest comparisons for me in dynamics are Chino Moreno and Loïc Rossetti. Just absolutely tears through the speaker, then hits these insanely pristine clean passages. So excited for this band and can't wait to see them on tour (hopefully).

[rowieg]

So so sic 🤘🤔it must be so satisfying jamming together . Unbelievable

[fooser]

If Lacey Sturm just decided to branch out and become a little more -- progressive?