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The Awakening is a name of at least six bands: 1) A Johannesburg (South Africa), alternative rock band 2) A 1970s U.S. funk/jazz group 3) A Long Island (NY, USA) post hardcore band 4) A Hungarian dark ambient act, better known as Awakening 5) A Göttingen (Germany) brutal death metal band 6) A mid-late 80s Christian rock band (similar to Yes) 1) A Johannesburg alternative rock band, formed in 1995 by vocalist, guitarist and producer Ashton Nyte. The band is credited in the press as "South Africa's most successful Gothic Rock act and one of the top bands in the...

AWAKENING SUN – an unsigned, fast growing, one of the most promising Lithuanian bands. AWAKENING SUN was set up by a guitarist, a lyricist, the main composer, the frontman and band producer Ernestas in spring 2011. Different musicians had replaced each other, until the final cast was formed: Ernestas Skripkiūnas (vocals/ lead guitar), Vilius Stašauskas- (drums), Denis Bubel (rhythm guitar), Povilas Laurinaitis (bass guitar). In the summer 2011, the band played at the local metal music festival "Giedfest" and in autumn recorded their first album "SOLD OUT" which was released on December 16th, 2011. Their album has been distributed worldwide...

6th Awakening was born in the autumn of 2001 with a wish of combining the various influences of the members and make something new. This to make an awakening for the listener musically as well as lyrically. Thus the peculiar sound took form. The startup setting of the band: Drums - Mikael, Guitar - Mathias.H, Robert, Bass - Christer, Vocals - Lovisa The members of the band has generally been the same, with an exception of the bass player. Christer played the bass on the first recording. During the summer of 2003, Christer choose to leave since his undertaking in...

Everything started in the summer of 2005, when Nick and Massimiliano (Sentence's member) decided to begin a new project, a new band, focused on a common message, but it was just an idea, nothing of really concrete. After a couple of months Enrico (Sentence's member) joined the band and we started to write a couple of songs, but the problem was not resolved. We couldn't find a drummer for almost 1 year...but one day, Raffaele (Ex Reprisal) joined with us, and the line up was almost completed. Next Alessandro (Sentence's member) and later Luca (Shall I Die's member) joined the...

1. Awaken is a heavy metal band from Greenwich, CT formed in 2009 by vocalist Glenn DaGrossa. He was formerly the songwriter and founding member of the power metal band Lazarus, which Kerrang! magazine hailed as "one of the quintessential metal bands of our time." Thanks to DaGrossa's soaring vocals and stellar song craftsmanship, Lazarus was also voted one of 2007's best unsigned bands by the staff at Germany's Heavy magazine and metalexpressradio.com said their 2007 debut, Episode One, "could have easily been sandwiched between Queensrÿche's The Warning and Saxon's Innocence Is No Excuse." In addition to DaGrossa (who has...