Wake>>RWAKE - USA

Hell Is A Door To The Sun - 2002 - Retribute
If You Walk Before You Crawl You Crawl Before You Die - 2004 - At A Loss
Voices Of Omens - 2007 - Relapse
Rest - 2011 - Relapse
A Stone, A Leaf, An Unfound Door - 2015 - Behind The Mountain
The Return Of Magik - 2025 - Relapse

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Members
Vocals
Son Of Jor-El, King Travolta, Ash Of Cedars, Deadbird, Kids In Satan's Service>>C.T. [CHRIS TERRY]>>Son Of Jor-El, King Travolta, Ash Of Cedars, Deadbird, Kids In Satan's Service - B [BRITTANY FUGATE]

Guitar
Gravy [Kris Graves] - Mutha's Day Out, Benoint, Deadbird>>Chuck Schaaf>>Mutha's Day Out, Deadbird, Pallbearer, Deadeyejack, Story Of The Eye - Pale Unearthed, Inner War, Napalm Christ>>KIFFIN ROGERS>>Napalm Christ, The Obsessed, Kids In Satan's Service - Chris Newman - AUSTIN SUBLETT - JOHN JUDKINS

Bass
Deadbird>>Reid Raley>>Deadbird, Nachtmystium - Apoc Death, Today Is The Day, The Hardin Draw, Christine, Laser Flames On The Great Big News, Seafood Hotline, Solo>>John Judkins>>The Hardin Draw, Laser Flames On The Great Big News, Seafood Hotline, Solo - Deadbird, Nachtmystium>>REID RALEY

Drum
Mutha's Day Out, Ash Of Cedars, Deadbird, Kids In Satan's Services, Nightspake>>JEFF MORGAN>>Mutha's Day Out, Ash Of Cedars, Deadbird, Kids In Satan's Services, Nightspake

Keyboard
B [BRITTANY FUGATE]




History & Biography
Arkansas is the type of place where someone who looks into the eyes of a whole country and lies to the max non-stop for years can go on to become the governor of the state. America is indeed the land of opportunity!

Rwake was founded as Wake in 1996. The name had to be changed and so an 'R' was added at the beginning. Xenoglossalgia (The Last Stage Of Awareness) was the 1998 demo. Spoiler alert: Relapse would press it again 2015. Absence Due To Projection was the 1999 demo. Bassist Aaron Mills left. Guitarist Chris Newman also left at this juncture, but would return some 15 years later to give the act three guitarists. Retribute Records of UK pressed the band's debut album in 2002. Hell Is A Door To The Sun was followed by a Sloth and Rwake split 7". The former band supplied a dozen tracks. All Rwake could come up with was a live recording. Slot went on to corner the split release market; Rwake, not so much. The next album was on At A Loss and issued also in 2004. Kiffin Rogers was new here. The third album was on a third label. The band had signed to Relapse Records in 2006. Rwake was billed for Scion fest and then Hellfest Open Air 2010. Rest was not a mere title next. It was a prediction. A video for It Was Beautiful But Now It's Sour did support the album. The band reported it being removed from YouTube for violating something or the other. There were gigs at Maryland Deathfest X and with Church Of Misery in 2012. A live audio/video record emerged in 2015, but otherwise the band was inactive.

A 2009 announcement was of a 2010 southern metal (ha?) documentary dubbed Slow Southern Steel, which was an 80-minute film executive produced by Karim Khan (I'm Better Than Everyone Records) and directed by Rwake vocalist CT and David Lipke. Nachtmystium announced its recently recruited full-time bassist Reid Raley of Rwake/Deadbird as a "permanent fixture" in 2011. Raley was released in 2012. He would return to Rwake. Kris "Gravy" Graves left in 2020. Chris Newman had left years ago.

2023 brought a Pallbearer tour with openers Rwake in June. After 13 years of silence, Rwake was back with an album called The Return Of Magik through Relapse in 2025. The new lead guitarist was Austin Sublett. John Judkins was the second guitarist now. The group opened for Pallbearer, Rezn and The Keening on tour in the USA.

The members also share other acts with one another. Jeff and Brittany were together. Keyboardist and singer Brittany Fugate did tattoos and inked people unhappy with themselves.


Reviews

RWAKE - IF YOU WALK BEFORE YOU CRAWL YOU CRAWL BEFORE YOU DIE - AT A LOSS
Here is a challenging band! The band's name is Rwake, the new album's title is longer than one cares to type and members have names like CT, B and Gravy!
The band's music is not that strange though. In fact, the band's sounds are quite organic and while liable to change and be variable are rooted firmly in various metal sub-genres. Rwake harbours elements of doom, black and death all implanted with a firm dosage of melancholy. The singer can also both shriek and wail at command which overall reminds one of the ways of Hammers Of Misfortune. It is both familiar and different and as surely as that description is odd, it is true as well. This won't be readily available at stores so fans can look for it through At A Loss Recordings itself. - Ali "The Metallian"


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