SCARDUST have released a progressive symphonic metal version of Clean Bandit’s “Symphony”, with vocalist and choir director Noa Gruman, electric violinist Mia Asano and Gruman’s Hellscore Choir at the centre of the new video. The digital single is out today, 31 October 2026, through Frontiers Music Srl, and the band will donate its proceeds to the Foundation for Prader-Willi Research.
The Israeli band’s version adds a full metal line-up to the 2017 Clean Bandit and Zara Larsson song. Gruman sings, Yoav Weinberg plays drums, Gal Gabriel Israel plays guitar, Aaron Friedland plays keyboards and Bar Sasson plays bass, while Asano performs the violin. The track was produced by Joost van den Broek and SCARDUST, with van den Broek also providing the orchestration and programming. He mixed the song at Sandlane Recording Facilities, and Jens Bogren mastered it.
‘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.
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A bittersweet interpretation
SCARDUST said the original love song also suggested a different feeling to them: longing for belonging while a barrier keeps people apart. The band said that idea shaped the arrangement, performances, violin solo and the cinematic direction of the video and artwork. Lahav Levi produced and edited the video, while DAVIDKA directed it. Gruman, Israel and Sasson filmed their scenes at Balza studios, and Asano filmed separately with Landon Donoho.
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.
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Noa Gruman’s two voices
Noa Gruman is SCARDUST’s vocalist and the director of the Hellscore Choir. She is also associated with Somnia, and her work with SCARDUST has moved between gentle singing, operatic power and guttural vocals. Hellscore’s extensive choir appearance gives the cover a larger choral dimension, with Gruman joined by named vocalists and additional audio-only singers in the recording.
Asano’s connection with the band began during Sabaton’s Legendary Tour, where Gruman appeared as featured lead singer and conductor of The Legendary Orchestra. The Los Angeles-based violinist is a Berklee College of Music graduate and received the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Best Violin Performance Award in 2020. Her work combines classical playing with rock, metal, Celtic and electronic influences, and she has performed with Ministry, DragonForce, Lindsey Stirling, Tina Guo and Taylor Davis.
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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Sasson joins the line-up
SCARDUST released their debut EP “Shadow” in 2015 and their first full-length album, “Sands of Time”, in 2017. Their second album, “Strangers”, arrived in 2020, followed by the 2025 album “Souls”, which featured Haken vocalist Ross Jennings. In 2026, founding bassist Orr Didi departed and Bar Sasson joined the line-up. The band then supported Sabaton in Europe, headlined shows in the UK and Belgrade, played ProgPower USA XXV and toured the United States before releasing “Symphony”.
