Azusa- Heavy Yoke

Label: Indie

Released 2018

Band features members of EXTOL & DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN. 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.

Track Listing:

1. Interstellar Islands 
   
2. Heart Of Stone
   
3. Heavy Yoke
   
4. Fine Lines 
   
5. Lost In the Ether 
   
6. Spellbinder 
   
7. Programmed To Distress 
   
8. Eternal Echo 
   
9. Iniquitous Spiritual Praxis
   
10. Succumb To Sorrow
    
11. Distant Call