 Release:
Testimony Records
25.07.2025
Info:
AZURE EMOTE is an Avant-garde Death Metal band from the U.S. created in 2003 by Mike Hrubovcak, with the help of long-time friend and guitarist Ryan Moll. It was formed as an experimental musical outlet to express personal negativity without the genre limitations often present within Extreme Metal. AZURE EMOTE incorporates a wide variety of instruments and musical styles to give each song its own unique sound, which includes varying elements of Experimental, Industrial, Electronic, Doom, Progressive and Blackened Death Metal.
“Chronicles of An Aging Mammal” was released in 2007 via Epidemie Records (a label known for releasing other eclectic bands such as Thy Catafalque). The album quickly accumulated a cult following within the Metal underground. After the release however, AZURE EMOTE was put on hiatus as Mike focused on touring extensively with his other Death Metal bands at the time Monstrosity & Vile.
In the summer of 2011, AZURE EMOTE was resurrected with new drummer Mike Heller (Fear Factory, Malignancy) for the recording of the second album “The Gravity of Impermanence” which saw its release in 2013 via Selfmadegod Records out of Poland. A 2LP Vinyl edition was also released via Adipocere Records out of France. “The Gravity of Impermanence” presented a more ambitious and polished offering than the first album “Chronicles...”, yet was equally as inventive and surprising.
After a seven year span of continued touring with his other bands and writing new AZURE EMOTE material in-between, “The Third Perspective” album was finally released in early 2020 via Selfmadegod Records. The third album had progressed even further in both musicianship and ingenuity and was accompanied this time with an Official Music Video for the song “Curse of Life”. The music video was produced with the help of Nader Sadek, also known for other videos made for such bands as Morbid Angel, Inquisition, Nordjevel and his own supergroup “Nader Sadek”.
2025 sees AZURE EMOTE now joining forces with German label Testimony Records / SPKR Media for the release of the fourth album “Cryptic Aura”. The new album is a much darker and heavier offering than the previous albums. It’s misanthropic and disturbing atmospheres can be felt weaving it’s way throughout a skeleton of Progressive Death Metal, all the while engulfed by a firey smoke of dark keyboard effects and foreboding Violins. The cover photo (also created by Hrubovcak) is a returning meditation concept from the previous album, symbolizing the trauma and seismic change that has occurred throughout the last 5 years: Burning the effigy of the past, while embracing the cryptic next chapter.
"Feast Of Leeches" - Official Music Video: https://youtu.be/DclbFzcX6z8
Tracklist:
01. Into Abysmal Oblivion
02. Insomnia Nervosa
03. Aeons Adrift
04. Bleed With The Moon
05. Defiance Infernus
06. Provoking The Obscene
07. Disease Of The Soul
08. Feast Of Leeches
09. Return To The Unknown
10. Writhing Lunacy
Line-up:
Mike Hrubovcak - Vocals & Keyboards (ex Monstrosity)
Ryan Moll - Guitars (Total Fucking Destruction)
Mike Heller - Drums (Malignancy, Raven, ex Fear Factory)
Kelly Conlon - Bass (ex Death, ex Monstrosity)
Pete Johansen - Violins (ex Sirenia)
Anna Murphy - Clean Vocals (ex Eluveitie)
Guests: James Murphy (ex Death, ex Obituary, ex Testament) - 2nd Guitar Solo on ‘Into Abysmal Oblivion’. Andy La Rocque (King Diamond) - 3rd Guitar Solo on ‘Into Abysmal Oblivion’. Bob Davodian (ex Divine Rapture) -Guitar Solo on ‘Insomnia Nervosa’.
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