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Rwake - Rest

- Source: The Ripple Effect

When recently concert-going, I saw so many Rwake shirts, both on the bands and in the crowd, I was forced to reconsider my perhaps-hasty dismissal of them up to this point.

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Rwake - Rest

- Source: Pitchfork Media

Voices of Omens , the previous LP by Arkansas doom troupe Rwake , opened with a foreboding, 82-second mandolin meditation, its thin notes hanging like premonitions before the strangled samples and serrated guitars of "The Finality" cut in.

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LISTEN TO THE NEW RWAKE SONG OR THE PUPPY GETS IT

- Source: Metal Sucks

The last time I wrote about the release of a new Rwake song , there were zero comments; the time before that, there were six comments, five of which were based around accusations that the band sounds like Baroness (which they don't), and one of which claimed they sound like Primordial (a little more accurate but still come the fuck on).

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Rwake - "Was Only a Dream"

- Source: Pitchfork Media

"Was Only a Dream" is the sky-cracking 14-minute closing track from Rest , forward-thinking Arkansas sludge merchants Rwake 's first album in four years, out September 27 via Relapse.

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RWAKE FANS: KNEEL BEFORE NAPALM CHRIST

- Source: Metal Sucks

In the meantime, it turns out that Rwake guitarist Kiffin has a new band, Napalm Christ — which might be the single greatest band name ever, by the way — with members of Shitfire and Shredded Corpse, both bands who also have ridiculously good monikers and both bands who, I am sad to admit, I'm not familiar with (although my gut tells me that Grim Kim might be ).

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