Prosthetic Records signs Yakuza

Prosthetic has signed Chicago, Illinois-based Yakuza. The band, which combines elements of free jazz, metal and post-hardcore will release their debut Samsara in March of 2006.

The band recorded the album with producer Matt Bayles (Isis, Botch) at Volume Studios in Chicago and it includes pianist Jim Baker, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, Sanford Parker and Troy Sanders (Mastodon). The album follows the band's 2002 Century Media release Way of the Dead.

The band has posted a new track titled "Cancer of Industry" from the album as well as two older songs from Way of the Dead on their myspace page.