The Enchantment Continues With The Awakening And His Elfin Your Vampire

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The Enchantment Continues With The Awakening And His Elfin Your Vampire

11/3/2026

The Awakening
Your Vampire
Johannesburg

The gothic and darkwave icon from the sunny land of South Africa is about to head out on a full-length tour. His new track is out just in time and explores the darkside of unrequited or perhaps unconditional love. It's the fourth video made from tracks found on The Awakening’s 12th and eponymous album, following from the critically acclaimed and darkly stimulating Mirror Midnight, Haunting, and Through The Veil. The tracks have amassed millions of views consecutively, so Your Vampire is hoping to get a full moon flight into global skies. The UK dates for his Dark Carnival Tour 2026 are down, and they’re at the end of this feature. Will you offer your neck to the bite of The Awakening? Here’s Your Vampire.

A gust of choral breeze opens the piece before a sweet acoustic steel delicately describes a melody. It sounds like a twelve-string, I used to have one. The Awakening, he begins to sing. His baritone and bass voice plunges into the flesh like a knife as his emotional eloquence delivers pinpoint feelings. The poetic words and melancholy atmosphere builds as the guitar is built by the depths of bass and harmony. Background hums and distortions hide beneath an angelic scale clothed in the garb of ache and desire. Meaningful and moving, Your Vampire is a masterpiece of modern emotional sculpture.

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Tour Tickets are here

THE AWAKENING - DARK CARNIVAL TOUR 2026 (UK)

31 March - EDINBURGH - Bannerman's
1 April - MANCHESTER - The Deaf Institute
2 April - BRADFORD - Nightrain
4 April - BRISTOL - Exchange**
5 April - LONDON - The Underworld*
6 April - KNOWLE - Slow Century Records, Knowle (acoustic show)
7 April - BIRMINGHAM - The Asylum Venue
10 April - SWANSEA - Hangar 18
12 April - SOUTHAMPTON - The Brook

Support: Black Lakes, Ghost Dance*, Dhampyres**

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