Rude Awakening Records

A quarter of a century of extreme music, artistic vision, and unwavering coherence: HERUKA celebrate 25 years of career with "Live in Rome", a live album capturing the full ferocity and intensity of the band in their natural habitat — the stage. The release documents their performance at the Rome Carnage Extreme Fest held at Defrag in Rome, an incendiary night in which the band revisited their entire discography. The setlist was conceived as a true journey through the different artistic phases of HERUKA, performed with a power and cohesion that testify to the band’s outstanding form after 25 years of activity. "Live in Rome" delivers the raw sonic impact of the concert — relentless riffs and pounding rhythms — transforming the event into a definitive portrait of HERUKA’s live dimension. Below is the visualizer for "Indarno", one of the most intense moments of the show: https://youtu.be/r3CxPeuW0H8 Full tracklist: 1. Intro 2. Zoryas - Emho’s Army 3. Amsarct...

More than 25 years after its original 1997 release, Romanian cult Prog Thrash band PSYCHO SYMPHONY brings back "Silent Fall". Remastered and reimagined, the album is now available again—and for the first time pressed on CD via Loud Rage Music. Recorded in Romania during a burst of creative intensity and progressive spirit, it continues to resonate with fans worldwide. Band members share their enthusiasm about the reissue: “For us, ‘Silent Fall’ was never just a debut—it was a statement. An experiment in pushing boundaries, blending aggression with atmosphere, and searching for something honest and uniquely our own within the noise. Though born in a time and place where resources were limited, the vision was always clear. This re-release is more than nostalgia. It’s a way to bring the music to new ears, to give it the sound it always deserved, and to honor the path we started. With a careful remastering and artwork based on the haunting paintings of Étienne Sándorfi, thi...

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  T he Sardinian blackened death metal act SHARDANA is excited to deliver a lyric video for the song Is Cerbus , taken from the band’s upcoming album The Monarch , out on September 5 th as jewel case and digital via Rude Awakening Records . Is Cerbus is a term associated with the Sinnai Carnival in Sardinia, and refers to one of the main figures of the local tradition, known with this name. During the carnival, the Canaxus (beaters dressed in skins, cowbells, and other elements reminiscent of nature) are tasked with driving the Cerbus (men dressed as deer) toward the Cassadoris (hunters) who await them for the final slaughter, simulating a big game hunt. Watch the lyric video of Is Cerbus here: https://youtu.be/pgk1rDBie0A Pre-order the digital album on Bandcamp:  https://tinyurl.com/44jz9hzn     SHARDANA was formed early in 2008 with the intent of creating a metal band with epic and battling sounds, merging Heavy Metal with Black and Viking influence...

Funeral doom metal behemoths HUMANITY ZERO are considered one of Greece most obscure and sinister acts today. Formed in 2003 by Dimon's Night as a death metal band, they were best known for their primitive brutality and paradox melodies.   After two demos, one EP and three full-length albums HUMANITY ZERO began to create more complex, slow and macabre music. Their fourth album "Withered In Isolation" marked a new death/doom direction. After many line-up changes, Kydoimos of hate-fueled machine MISANTHROPY APOTHEOSIS joined the band as the vocalist and the band decided to continue as a duo consisting of Kydoimos on vocals and Dimon's Night on guitars/bass/drums. In 2018 the band released their fifth album "Proselytism" shocking their fans. Music-wise the music got slower and nightmarish accompanying the truly haunting lyrics. However, their most obscure opus had yet to be recorded...     Seven years after "Proselytism" HUMANITY ZERO emerge one more ...

SHARDANA, the blackened death metal band from Sardinia, Italy, has revealed the details of its new album, the first via Rude Awakening Records. The new effort is called The Monarch and it will be released on September 5th as jewel case and digital. Composed of 9 tracks for almost 38 minutes of musical experience, The Monarch is anticipated by the song Awakening – available as visualizer on the label YouTube channel: https://tinyurl.com/5n8ntaf9 Pre-order the digital album on Bandcamp: https://tinyurl.com/44jz9hzn     The Monarch is not a concept, although there are several songs that share a common theme: the passing of time, and the struggle of humans to avoid their inescapable fate. So you can imagine Time as “The Monarch”, a deaf giant monster that won’t listen to your prayers or insults, just standing still while you’re trying to overcome it, until the bitter end. The lyrics of the songs “S’Inferru”, “Is Cerbus” and “Rei de Sonnu” are in sardinian. SHARDANA used its native...