Rude Awakening Records

AYDRA, pioneers of Italian technical death metal, are proud to announce that the definitive CD reissue of the legendary album “Icon of Sin” is available for pre-order from today, June 23rd via Rude Awakening Records. The album is now available in a remastered version, expanded with four exclusive bonus live tracks. Watch the visualizer video of “Lost Time Fury”:  A milestone of late-'90s Italian death metal, “Icon of Sin” is AYDRA's first full-length, released in 1999 on Sound Machine Recordings after the “Psycho Pain Control” mini CD (1996, Dawn of Sadness). Composed between 1995 and 1997 and recorded in 1998 by David Lenci, the album marks the technical maturity of the band from Italy's Marche region and their full entry into the canon of Italian death metal. Their stated influences - Death, Cynic, Atheist, Pestilence - are the starting point for a songwriting style that blends extreme technicality, melody and storytelling: ten tracks where every passage is calculated, bu...

RUDE AWAKENING RECORDS is glad to announce the signing of the Italian legendary band Aydra. AYDRA, pioneers of Italian technical death metal, formed in 1985 evolving from thrash roots into an increasingly complex and aggressive sound. After the acclaimed “Icon of Sin” (1999) and “Hyperlogical Non-sense” (2004), the band returned in 2024 with “Leave to Nowhere” - a powerful, modern concept album marking the definitive resurgence of their technical fury. RUDE AWAKENING RECORDS will release the definitive CD reissue of “Icon of Sin,” remastered and expanded with four exclusive bonus live tracks. Stay tuned, more info coming very soon!