Rude Awakening Records

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...