YAKUZA announces last minute hometown show with ISIS tonight, Sept. 19!

Chicago's prog-minded YAKUZA have announced a last-minute hometown appearance directly supporting Isis tonight, Sept. 19 at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago (2100 W. Belmont). The show will start at 10 pm, with a $12 door charge to fans 18 and over, and Beaten Awake will open the show. Having already shared tour dates earlier this year with Dysrhythmia, Behold...The Arctopus, The Number 12 Looks Like You, and The JonBenet, as well as making an appearance at the Eighth Annual New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, YAKUZA will again hit the road on a string of dates in November, will more details available shortly.

With praise from metal and indie press alike, Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles has proclaimed that YAKUZA's "foaming at the mouth musical delivery is complemented by some of the raddest and most cohesively efficient song structures out there." Meanwhile, Kerrang has labeled 'SAMSARA' "a stupefying collision of lumbering, fuzzed-up riffs, prog-jazz oddness and warped psychedelia, played with enough shamanistic force to make the sky collapse itself." Recorded with producer/engineer Matt Bayles (Pearl Jam, Isis) in the band's hometown, 'SAMSARA' features guest appearances from pianist Jim Baker, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, Sanford Parker, and Mastodon's Troy Sanders.