Time Wasted, Skies Ashen: AZSHARA channels the Pulse of Blackened Metalcore in 2025

In the heavy silence between Syracuse’s metallic past and what’s still to come, Ashen Skies doesn’t so much arrive as it looms. AZSHARA’s debut EP feels like an inheritance passed through blood-soaked soil—darker, heavier, and more cinematic than most would dare on a first outing. But this isn’t a first draft. The bones of AZSHARA stretch back to 2018, riffs written and left smoldering until the scene sparked back up. The Prayer For Cleansing reunion in 2022, followed by the Ephyra surge in early 2023, pulled those embers into something viable. Something ready to burn. Formed officially in 2023, the