Hear Scardust Cover Clean Bandit's 'Symphony'

(Freeman) Progressive symphonic metal band Scardust are thrilled to unveil a powerful rendition of Clean Bandit's "Symphony," featuring Mia Asano and Noa Gruman's Hellscore Choir, out now via Frontiers Music Srl.

The track features acclaimed Los Angeles-based electric violinist Mia Asano, whose genre-defying style fuses classical virtuosity with rock, metal, Celtic, and electronic influences. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, Asano has built a global following of more than six million across social media, with her viral performances generating over 500 million views.

Her career has included collaborations with artists including Ministry, DragonForce, Lindsey Stirling, Tina Guo and Taylor Davis, as well as a European arena tour with Two Steps From Hell, which began with a performance in front of 75,000 people at Wacken Open Air. A recipient of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Best Violin Performance Award in 2020, Asano brings her unmistakable energy and virtuosity to the new single.

The band commented: "'Symphony' by Clean Bandit has always felt like such a beautiful and emotional song, and we immediately felt it had the potential to become something very SCARDUST - combining prog metal, the Hellscore Choir, and Mia's incredible violin playing. Sharing the adventure of Sabaton's Legendary tour this last winter with Mia made us want to create something together again, and this song felt like the perfect opportunity."

"While the original song is a love song, we connected with it from a more bittersweet perspective: that deep longing to belong, to be together with someone, or to be part of something, while feeling that there is a barrier keeping you apart. We wanted that feeling to run through the entire interpretation - from the arrangement and performances to Mia's breathtaking violin solo, and into the cinematic world of the video and artwork", they added.

"Working with the legendary Joost van den Broek on the production and orchestration was a huge part of bringing this vision to life. It feels like a very natural meeting point between everything we love about SCARDUST and everything Mia brings as a musician - dramatic, emotional, cinematic, and deeply human."

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