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AYDRA: signs with Rude Awakening Records, reissues and full length coming soon

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Rude Awakening Records is proud to announce a new collaboration with Technical Death Metal act AYDRA from Italy. AYDRA’s career begins in the mid 80s under the monicker Hydra, soon evolving to their definitive and peculiar style as one of the main Italian bands carrying the Technical/Prog Death Metal flag in the 90s. Rude Awakening Records will take care of reissuing their whole discography: not only the main chapters “Icon of Sin” and “Hyperlogical Non-Sense”, but starting from the first official EP “Psycho Pain Control” (1996). What else should you expect? Unreleased track versions, live recordings, rare tracks… every reissue will see limited and numbered editions with new packaging, remastered audio and different artwork. Both CD and LP versions will be available, a must for collectors! But wait, there’s more! AYDRA’s brand new comeback album is in the works, and will be released on October 10th, 2024. Exactly twenty years after their highly praised full “Hyperlogical No

FURIOUS BARKING: final anthology details, new track online

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    Italian thrashers FURIOUS BARKING will be out on March 20, 2023 on Rude Awakening Records with “We Will Meet One Day (The Anthology 1989-1993)”: a double and limited CD set featuring rare and unreleased versions of their songs through their career and later content from the personal archives of the band members. Being a cult name linked to the early days of the extreme Metal bands in Italy with their Thrash/Death style, this anthology marks the second collaboration of the band with Rude Awakening Records, following the reissue “Italian Thrash Relics” from 2016. Complete tracklist as follows: CD 1 1. Adm. Concilium [De-Industrialized vinyl, 1991] 2. W.W.M.O.D. [De-Industrialized vinyl, 1991] 3. Neophyte Necessity [De-Industrialized vinyl, 1991] 4. Euthanasia [De-Industrialized vinyl, 1991] 5. Ipse Dixit [De-Industrialized vinyl, 1991] 6. Soldiers (Hill A136) [De-Industrialized vinyl, 1991] 7. Every Indetermination Is Complete [Theory of Diversity origin

FURIOUS BARKING: anthology coming soon, lyric video online

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  Italian thrashers FURIOUS BARKING once again will be out on Rude Awakening Records for an exclusive release in 2023. After publishing “Italian Thrash Relics” split in 2016, now it's time for a celebratory anthology containing rare and unpublished material. “We Will Meet One Day (The Anthology 1989-1993)” will be released as a double CD digipack and as a strictly limited edition, embracing the whole career of the band starting from the early days. Tracklist yet to be revealed, many of the included tracks will be on CD for the first time ever. A lyric video is already available for the titletrack (with original audio from 1991) and the main artwork as well, providing a visual legacy and concept with previous Furious Barking album covers.         More details soon to be spread, release date is set for March 2023 both for physical and digital format on all the main streaming providers. The double CD set will also feature an exclusive QR code giving access to a full show restor

EIBON (SGP): second advance track and release date revealed

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  The release date for “The Garden of Theophrastus” reissue by EIBON is getting near: the cult album by one of the earliest extreme Metal bands from Singapore will be re-released on 10th November 2022 by Rude Awakening Records. This reissue will feature a revamped cover, booklet, completely remastered audio and lots of bonus tracks from the early demos of the band (under the name Debauchery) and the 2003 EP “Ineffable Prodigious Odyssey”. After revealing the first advance track as lyric video , now it’s time for “Noctium Phantasmata” track: Complete tracklist: 1. I Eisodos 2. Noctium Phantasmata 3. Il Nerazza di Bestimiare 4. Ancient Flight of Winter Nebula 5. The Garden of Theophrastus 6. In the Streams of Undaunted Vile Desire 7. The Unholy Ground of Darkened Evil 8. Anachorisi 9. Rites of Profanity (demo version) 10. The Unholy Ground of Darkened Evil (demo version) 11. Bestial Desecration Through Holy Prayers (demo version) 12. Ineffable Prodigious
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  EIBON (SGP): cult reissue coming soon, first details Rude Awakening Records is proud to announce a new international collaboration: for its next release the Italian label will reissue EIBON from Singapore, with their cult Black Metal debut “The Garden of Theophrastus”, originally published in 1995.   The new edition will contain a total of 15 tracks with the original tracklist, plus demo versions and the entire 2003 EP “Ineffable Prodigious Odyssey” as bonus tracks. New graphic and remastered audio for this edition, which will be limited to 300 hand-numbered copies worldwide. Here’s the revamped cover: A lyric video was made for the track “In the Streams of Undaunted Vile Desire” by YOD Multimedia, anticipating the physical release expected for Fall 2022. Complete tracklist: 1. I Eisodos 2. Noctium Phantasmata 3. Il Nerazza di Bestimiare 4. Ancient Flight of Winter Nebula 5. The Garden of Theophrastus 6. In the Streams of Undaunted Vile Desire 7. The U

HERUKA: “Memorie” out today and “Passacaglia” lyric video

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  Today’s the release date set for HERUKA’s third full length, “Memorie”, out on Rude Awakening Records once again. The album contains ten Black Metal songs with Italian lyrics composed in poetic style, on common themes of death and suffering of life. The new album follows the previous full “No Sun Dared Pass Our Windows” two years after its release in 2020 and marks the return to the Italian lyrics also used in their early releases. The band celebrates the new record unleashing a new lyric video: a cover of “Passacaglia della Vita”, a 17th century baroque song often attributed to the Italian composer Stefano Landi and covered by many artists of different styles along the centuries. HERUKA brings the tune in a Black Metal interpretation, with the help of two special guests to recall the baroque origin in the intro and the outro. https://youtu.be/JkPNeNk7OPY The artwork completes the conceptual death work on “Memorie”: a detail of “The Human Fragility”, homage to a masterp

HERUKA: new single from “Memorie”

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  While the release date of HERUKA’s new record approaches, the Black Metal band from Italy publishes another extract from “Memorie”. After unveiling the first single “Presagi”, now it’s time for “Ad un Passo”: again, the lyrical content is about a suffering life close to its end and the whole record sees Italian lyrics written in poetic style sharing common themes. Release date for “Memorie” is set for May 24th, once again the record will be published by Rude Awakening Records and limited to 300 CD copies worldwide. The artwork is a tribute to a piece of art by Italian painter Salvator Rosa, a detail taken from “The Human Fragility” (1656 circa).   Complete “Memorie” tracklist: 1. Inno 2. Presagi 3. Ad un Passo 4. Memorie 5. Indarno 6. Vegetale 7. Inutile Attesa 8. Anossia 9. Criogenesi 10. Passacaglia Heruka is: Nekrom: vocals Adranor: guitar Moha: guitar Nemuri Shi: drums Cruz: bass Special guests: Flavio Virzì (acoustic guitar) and Sonja Horlac