| Razor Burn | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||
| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | September 2006 | |||
| Recorded | 2006 Intervention Studios & Sonovision Music, Johannesburg, South Africa | |||
| Genre | Gothic rock, industrial rock | |||
| Label | Intervention Arts Massacre Records | |||
| Producer | Ashton Nyte & Jon Buckley | |||
| The Awakening chronology | ||||
| ||||
Razor Burn is the seventh studio album by South African gothic rock band The Awakening, released on Massacre Records in Germany and Intervention Arts in Africa and the US in September 2006.
Marketed as a "blend of pounding metal guitars and traditional gothic rock," the album features dark, moody industrial elements mixed with mid-tempo rock song structures. With the European distribution and marketing of Massacre Records it received additional media attention, wider distribution and positive reviews from alternative music press. [1] [2]
Gothic rock is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The first post-punk bands which shifted towards dark music with gothic overtones include Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, Bauhaus, and the Cure.
Gothic metal is a fusion genre combining the aggression of heavy metal with the dark atmospheres of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music. The genre originated during the early 1990s in the United Kingdom originally as an outgrowth of death-doom, a fusion of death metal and doom metal. Lyrics are generally dark and introspective with inspiration from gothic fiction as well as personal experiences.
Theatres des Vampires is an Italian gothic metal band, mostly noted for the predominant theme of vampirism within their lyrics. The band's early material was credited as melodic black metal or symphonic black metal, but the group completely abandoned all black metal influence by the mid-2000s. Theatres des Vampires have released eleven full-length albums.
The LoveCrave is an Italian gothic metal band from Milan. The LoveCrave means "Hundredth Rave of Love". This name was taken from a story about a rave of vampires written by Francesca Chiara in 2003.
Massacre Records is an independent record label based in Abstatt, Germany.
Nox Arcana is the American neoclassical dark wave musical project of Joseph Vargo. The group was founded in 2003 as a duo with William Piotrowski, who left the group in 2008 to pursue a career in film score composing and Vargo continued on as a solo act under the name. Piotrowski still acts as Nox Arcana's studio engineer. The name in Latin translates to "mysteries of the night." All of Nox Arcana's music is released independently on the Monolith Graphics label, a publishing company owned by Vargo. With their third album, Nox Arcana became a Billboard Top Ten charting artist in the holiday genre.
Unshine is a gothic metal, symphonic metal band from Helsinki, Finland.
Mandragora Scream is an Italian gothic metal band.
The Awakening is a dark musical project founded in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1995 by vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Ashton Nyte. The sound has been described as a hybrid of darkwave, gothic rock, industrial rock, gothic metal and new wave - a combination that was described by Nyte as "dark future rock." The Awakening has released ten studio albums, several singles, EPs, and two greatest hits compilations. As of 2008, The Awakening has been based in the United States.
Ethereal Menace is the third album by South African gothic rock band The Awakening released in July 1999. The album utilizes elements of industrial music, a style later dubbed as "dark future rock" by Nyte. Another music video was produced by South African Music Awards winner, director Eban Olivier's Concrete Productions, for the single "The March." The video was placed in rotation on MTV Europe.
Darker Than Silence is the sixth studio album by South African gothic rock band The Awakening, released in 2004.
Roadside Heretics is the fifth studio album by South African gothic rock band The Awakening, released in 2002.
The Fourth Seal of Zeen is the fourth studio album by South African gothic rock band The Awakening, released in 2000. The album features the band's most well-known single "The Dark Romantics" as well as the singles "Eve" and "Amethyst" which became both fan and media favourites. The album is considered one of the band's most popular and most dramatic releases to date.
Rose Mortem is an American fashion designer. She is married to front man Ashton Nyte, of the Gothic rock band The Awakening. Rose is most widely known for her dark romantic fashion stylings and her involvement with underground music.
Ataxia is the sixth studio album released by alternative / psychedelic-rock band Circus Devils on October 31, 2008. All songs on Ataxia were written and performed by Robert Pollard, Todd Tobias, and Tim Tobias.
Ashton Nyte is a South African-born singer, songwriter, producer, composer, author, actor, and frontman of the gothic rock band The Awakening. Nyte has released seven solo albums, in addition to ten albums as The Awakening and several other projects and collaborations. He is considered to be a pioneer of alternative music in South Africa, and has been described as "something of a musical genius" for his typical method of composing, playing and recording each instrument himself on most of his releases. Nyte is widely known in South Africa for his chart-topping cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence" and several other top singles. His signature style combines baritone vocals, garnering comparisons to David Bowie and Johnny Cash, with instrumentation that ranges from lyric-driven acoustic folk music to alternative rock to post punk to electronic music and a penchant for the theatrical. Nyte has been based in the USA since 2009.
Tales of Absolution & Obsoletion is the eighth studio album by South African gothic rock band The Awakening, released worldwide via Intervention Arts in June 2009.
Asylum is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Disturbed. It was released on August 31, 2010, in the United States through Reprise Records. The album is meant to take a fresh direction in the band's music career, while remaining consistent with the band's previous albums. Most of the lyrical content was inspired by aspects of frontman David Draiman's life prior to making the album. Asylum is also the third consecutive Disturbed album to not feature the Parental Advisory label. A tour in support of the album, titled the Asylum Tour, started in late August 2010.
Anthology XV is a compilation album by South African rock act The Awakening released on April 27, 2013. The album features two new songs as well as remixes, reworkings, and updated versions of selected songs. An official video for the single "Fault" was released on August 1, 2013.
