Sometimes the warriors you need aren’t the warriors you expect. In March, Little Rock psychedelic metal outfit Rwake (pronounced “wake”) released a majestic comeback album, The Return of Magik ...

Little Rock, Arkansas sludge metal vets Rwake have announced their first album in over 13 years, The Return of Magik, due March 14 via Relapse (pre-order). Recorded in early 2024 at East End Sounds in ...

The weirdest thing happened when I listened to The Return of Magik, Little Rock, Ark., metal wraiths RWAKE’s first album since 2011: I got the warm fuzzies. It wasn’t what I was expecting — this is, ...

In the late '90s, the sludge metal monsters known as Rwake came stomping out of Little Rock, Arkansas with a sound that could swallow universes. Rwake made crushing, rabid epics that regularly ...

The last time Rwake put out a new record, Barack Obama was in his first term as president of the United States. So much has changed since then. Now, 13 and a half years later, the Little Rock sludge ...

It’s been a long time since the Arkansas sludge-metal monsters Rwake released a new album, but that’s about to change. Last month, Rwake reawakened and announced the impending release of The Return Of ...