The Chicago hardcore/metal quartet Yakuza formed in July 1999, consisting of vocalist/saxophonist Bruce Lamont, guitarist Eric Plonka, bassist Eric Clark, and drummer James Staffel. They released their first album, Amount to Nothing, in 2000 on the small independent label Product del Diablo,…
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You are drowning in the liquid and deadly riffs. You can smell their universal spirit. These are the riffs and rhythms from all over the globe. It is the world’s screaming anxiety. These are the doomed thoughts of our tired world. This is a strange and sad man and his Chicago typewriter. Actually, this is any typewriter in any place of this world – from Chicago to Tibet. This man is typing the words of sorrow, pain, disappointment and inevitability. This is a beautiful misery. It’s like out world is trying to forget the rage and anger watching some very depressive and existential noir movie. Just listen to “Farewell to the Flash” and you will feel it. This is existential noir scream metal somewhere in heights of Tibet. This music is cold. The spirit is cold and disturbed, and that is why this music sounds like funeral jazz on the Isles of Death you’ve never been to. I’m sure you don’t want to be there. It’s like a silent tragedy trying to speak to a shrink who does not care. He is just sitting there and drawing something…
This is Yakuza, avant-garde metal band from Chicago started in 1999. Their sound is unique and universal. Find their “Way of the Dead” and start your own private Yakuza journey. They are experimental, psychedelic and very serious. They are like a mysterious picture you are afraid of but you can’t stop staring at it. Don’t be afraid, stare and listen to their mysterious sax, deadly guitar, hammer drums and bass and disturbing vocal. Yakuza’s experiments with different instruments, musicians and atmospheres are a great picture to star at…