Galicia, Spain-based New Yorker and dark electro and gothic rock artist, CZARINA (styled as C Z A R I N A on all platforms) pays homage to her musical heroes and opens a portal to a different dimension in her latest cover single and music video of A Perfect Circle’s incendiary classic, “The Outsider” under German gothic label darkTunes Music Group. Immersed in dark mysticism, enigmatic ancient sounds combined with modern progressive electronic and orchestral soundscape, and her powerful, indelibly polished yet feral vocal performance that could both caress and ravage through hearts and minds, CZARINA reimagines and gives a whole new meaning to the song with her ethereal yet heavy-hitting hallmark sound which elevated her into one of the most dynamic, up-and-coming dark music artist-producers to watch since the release of her critically- acclaimed sophomore record, Arcana.

In the accompanying visuals, CZARINA transports her audience into the ends of a dark celestial world filled with evocative and ritualistic performances against the backdrop of epic drone shots of a beautiful and mysterious, untouched terrain dithering between the metaphysical and past and future times.

CZARINA is a decades-long fan and follower of A Perfect Circle and associated bands and artists such as TOOL, Nine Inch Nails, Puscifer, Maynard James Keenan, Billy Howerdel and Danny Loehner (Renholdër), and she credits their massive influence during her formative years. “Their work is transcendent and all seem to come out of the Aether, with sounds, technical prowess, and words and lyrics that would make you sit and ponder. There is an otherworldly component to everything they created. They gave me all the clues that would allow me to finally crack and establish my own codes later on as a music artist and creative as they did with their own respective projects,” she says.

CZARINA’s “The Outsider” was produced, arranged, performed and recorded by the artist in her seaside home along Costa Da Morte in Galicia, Spain which she often refers to as her muse and inspiration for all her creative work since moving 3 years ago. She leans on Von Hertzog (VHxRR, Information Society) of The Social Club (Reading, PA) who served as co-producer, mixing and mastering engineer on the track, and who has been providing additional production input to harness and finesse the very vast dynamics of CZARINA’s sound since they started working together in Arcana. “The Outsider” music video was created by CZARINA and her husband and creative partner DeadlyKawaii, under their two-man production house called The Kitsunés and was filmed near their coastal home.

“The Outsider” will be available on Bandcamp and all digital and streaming platforms on September 22.

The music video will be featured exclusively on darkTunes YouTube channel.

The track will also appear in “Sacred Geometry: A Tribute to A Perfect Circle” compilation courtesy of Coitus Interruptus Productions and Yvette Winkler (mastering by Jasyn Bangert, exclusively on Bandcamp on September 22), featuring A Perfect Circle covers by several independent dark music artists including Vaselyne, PINCHpoint, Morgue VVitch, Dead Cool, Death Loves Veronica, AL1CE, nolongerhuman, and more.

CZARINA is Vero Faye Kitsuné, a Filipino-American electronic rock musician, producer, songwriter, multi- instrumentalist, filmmaker, visual artist, and an esteemed long-time creative director and fashion industry veteran originally from New York City. Known for her multi-disciplinary approach, CZARINA combines transcendentalism and new age animist mysticism with her love for futurist culture, biomechanics, art and ancient history, mythology, folklore, and the discipline that comes with her Budo martial arts training. Her stunning, unique life story as a multi-hyphenate trading the gilded halls of high fashion to becoming a small independent artist in pursuit of meaning was recently featured and published in VOGUE Philippines (April 2023). Her sophomore record Arcana and was named Album of the Year (2022) by highly-esteemed synthpop authority Synthpop Fanatic.