- Roadside Heretics
Infobox Album
Name = Roadside Heretics
Type =Album
Artist = The Awakening
Released = 2002
Recorded = 2002 Intervention StudiosJohannesburg ,South Africa
Genre =Gothic rock Industrial rock
Length = 52:01
Label = Intervention Music Youngside (USA)
Producer = Ashton Nyte
Reviews =
Last album = "The Fourth Seal of Zeen "
(2000)
This album = "Roadside Heretics"
(2004)
Next album = "Darker Than Silence "
(2006)"Roadside Heretics" is the 5th studio album by the
South Africa ngothic rock band The Awakening, released in 2002.Recording
In June 2002 The Awakening recorded its most aggressive album so far, "Roadside Heretics". Garrick van der Tuin replaced Glenn Welman as a drummer during Nyte's Dirt Sense tour in May 2001, and influenced the new harsher sound. Thematically, Roadside Heretics deals with discriminated and isolated people. Musically, the sound is guitar-driven, and utilized thick industrial guitars. According to the band, Roadside Heretics marked a new era for The Awakening, as they tried to capture their live energy to the sound. HM wrote that "Ashton Nyte has a great understanding of the gothic aesthetic. Besides modern day mainstream breakthru’s like Reznor and Manson, The Awakening would surely make [David] Bowie, [Peter] Murphy, and Reed proud... he can still make us squirm with a sensuous love song like 'Cover.' Brilliant." [ [http://www.hmmagazine.com/reviews/album/a/awakening_the_roadside_heretics0203.php The Awakening - Roadside Heretics] ] [ [http://www.myrevelations.de/index.php?section=reviews&module=cdreviews&submodule=review_detail&reviewid=1589&PHPSESSID=35c027df3123c4ab9d91edc2fa4cfc59 The Awakening - Roadside Heretics] .] MyRevelations.de wrote that "Particular attention should be the quieter pieces such as 'My World' dedicated, because this is the strengths of Ashton Nyte, both vocals and composition. Some of the titles like me pretty good, but some are pretty bad, especially 'Angels'; absolutely not succeeded! A Anspieltipp there are times at the end: 'Complexion' is really cool, reminds very strongly of [Marilyn] Manson, but it is still (or maybe that is why) one of the top songs. Overall, the CD is somewhere in the 'very good, not outstanding' division to the region." [ [http://www.myrevelations.de/index.php?section=reviews&module=cdreviews&submodule=review_detail&reviewid=1589&PHPSESSID=35c027df3123c4ab9d91edc2fa4cfc59 The Awakening - Roadside Heretics] ]
Track listing
#"Roadside heretics"
#"Mirror Tricks"
#"The Maker"
#"Beautiful"
#"My World"
#"Fallen"
#"Angels"
#"Away from Home"
#"The No-where Mind"
#"Tracey-junkie"
#"Complexion"
#"Cover"References
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