Scardust have covered "Symphony" by Clean Bandit, out now through Frontiers Music Srl, with the electric violinist Mia Asano and the Hellscore Choir on it.
The choice is less odd than it looks written down. The original is a string led pop single built on a classical figure, and Scardust have spent their whole career putting choirs and orchestration against progressive metal, so the arrangement had somewhere to go. Joost van den Broek produced and orchestrated it, which is the name that tends to appear when a metal band wants the orchestra to sound like one.
Asano is a Berklee graduate from Los Angeles whose playing has turned up with Ministry, DragonForce, Lindsey Stirling and Two Steps From Hell, and the band met her on Sabaton's Legendary tour last winter. The Hellscore Choir is led by the Scardust singer Noa Gruman, so the two halves of the arrangement come from the same place.
Metal Hammer Italia reports that the band read the song against the grain: the original is a love song, and they took it as something more bittersweet, about wanting to belong and finding a wall in the way.