Join The Awakening For A Surging Post-Rock Haunting On Intervention Arts

The Awakening 
Haunting 
Intervention Arts 
 
The Johannesburg-born and now US-based gothic rock figurehead The Awakening is almost ready with his 12th studio record. The eponymous album contains a complete setlist of original material that has roots and fingers deeply submerged in the vision of gothic pantomime that began in the 1980s. With a foundation based on artists like Sisters Of Mercy, Joy Division, Him, and The Cure, the fundamentals of his form take elements from the wider scene and concentrate them into one line of fitting and captivating productions. Known for his solo work and for being a regular member of LA-based Beauty In Chaos, The Awakening is an alarm call that reminds us to wear black. With over 300 tracks to his name and with more than a few being used for television and film, I wonder what kind of storyline Haunting will be good to embellish?  
 
A darkwave style dance melody roars from the effected electric guitar. Crack drums pulse in high-energy bursts of simple rhythm as the vocal begins. The voice hits with baritone wholegrain drama, a push of guitar and bass delivers a torrent of feeling and intrigue through epic acts of poetic musical gesture. A chorus arrives on gliding bars as the melody adapts and the chords begin to leap like flames reaching for freshly laid fuel atop beautifully breathing embers. Gothic energy and heavy rock guttural projection, The Awakening’s Haunting takes us through forests of abstract and menacing shadows.  

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