Awakening Records 7 articles

Steps into Shadow took me a while to figure out. Not because it’s especially difficult, but because every time it seemed ready to settle into...

Fuck yes. This is exactly the kind of death metal I needed today! Hell Trepanner come from Lima, Peru and apparently have no interest whatsoever...

Colombia’s Warthrash have spent years sharpening their sound from raw thrash aggression into something darker, heavier, and far closer to classic death metal. With No...

Peru’s HELL TREPANNER aren’t interested in modernizing death metal or polishing its edges. Since their formation, the band has remained devoted to the raw violence,...

Hailing from Salvador, Bahia, a city with a deep but often overlooked extreme metal history, Papa Necrose have been grinding their way through the underground...

Hey from still-scorching Arizona! Week two of This Week’s Picks lands right as French streets erupt, Brussels debates climate targets it won’t meet, and the...

Hi! The title of your debut full-length album, “Crooked Mirror,” is intriguing. Can you shed some light on the inspiration behind this title and how...