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.