With a diamond back-catalogue of flawless, genre breaking metal with no stylistic constraints, YAKUZA are maestros of highly creative, extreme music, ever ahead of the game. Over 10 years after their last release, YAKUZA have returned with ‘Sutra’, losing none of their expansive and wildly artistic approach to pushing the boundaries of heavy music. ‘Sutra’ leans in on redefining the limits of heavy and eclectic metal, with songs like “Echoes From The Sky”’s epic sung vocals and zig zagging slabs of juggernaut riffing, all sewn together with Voivod chords and King Crimson structures, never coming apart but embracing the delightfully chaotic. Songs like “Alice” with its surge like quality, never heard before in YAKUZA’s music, and new single, “Psychic Malaise”, with an exciting new vocal approach, drive through a feeling of a band not only in their prime but with many new sides of their sound story to express. |