(written by Islander)
As we occasionally do, we’re about to step off our usual well-beaten musical paths and premiere a song whose changing facets include a lot of singing, a lot of industrial-strength groove, darting keyboards, and other features that might brand it as hard rock or maybe nu metal. But don’t worry, the song gets much more extreme too.
The name of the song, which is presented through a lyric video, is “Erotic Panic“. It’s from a conceptual album named The Killer I See In Me by the band AzhiRock, who originated in Tehran, Iran. The album is projected for release in 2027 by Satanath Records, and it will follow the band’s 2025 full-length, Echoes of Drifting Stones. Its concept is described in these words:
This album is about a person who has grown up in Terror, Pain, and sadistic family and society, Trauma which pushed him/ her to be a antisocial one…
He/She feels a killer is living inside….
“Erotic Panic” begins with throbbing beats and the blaring sound of warning sirens, and then the music begins to dismally sear and heavily pound. Clean singing surfaces and soars as keyboards vividly dart, but the riffing also violently surges, the drums ferociously rumble, and savage growls gnash the words.
The music continues to move between these stylistic tradeoffs, with the clean vocals carrying the sinister melody and the heavyweight drums and bass continuing to snap necks and pound the floor. The band also diabolically continue to inject mangling riffage, murderous growls, and savage howls.
For more info about Azhirock and to follow their activities, check the locations linked below.
AZHIROCK:
https://www.instagram.com/azhirock
https://www.facebook.com/AzhirockMusic/
SATANATH:
https://satanath.bandcamp.com/