Southern Sludge Greats Rwake Announce First Album In 13 Years

In the late ’90s, the sludge metal monsters known as Rwake came stomping out of Little Rock, Arkansas with a sound that could swallow universes. Rwake made crushing, rabid epics that regularly exceeded 10 minutes. Their structures were proggy and ambitious, and there was always just a tinge of Southern rock melody in their riffage, but they always put primal catharsis front and center. Rwake had a great run of underground classics, but it’s been a very long time since their last one. Now,...

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