Rwake is an American

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band from

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, United States.

History

Rwake began as a four-piece in 1996. The band was originally called Wake. The first Wake show was March 15, 1997 in Batesville, Arkansas at the Landers Theater. They began touring in October 2001, and self-released two recordings, ''Xenoglossalgia: The Last Stage of Awareness'', and ''Absence Due to Projection''. Since then four more albums were released, '' Hell is a Door to the Sun'', '' If You Walk Before You Crawl, You Crawl Before You Die'', '' Voices Of Omens'' and ''Rest''. The band signed with

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in January 2006, and released '' Voices Of Omens'' in February 2007. After their Relapse debut, Rwake maintained a busy touring schedule in support of '' Voices Of Omens''. Since then the band has laid low playing a few road stints here and there and going overseas two different times to Hellfest in France, and back for Roadburn in the Netherlands and further dates in Europe and finally the UK. The band finished up work for their second album on Relapse titled '' Rest'', which was released September 27, 2011.

Members

;Current *Jeff Morgan – drums, acoustic guitar (1996–present) *Chris "CT" Terry –

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(1996–present) *Kris "Gravy" Graves –

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(1996–present) *Chris Newman –

(1998–2001, 2013–present) *Brittany "The B" Fugate – moog,

, samples (1999–present) *Kiffin Rogers –

(2003–present) *John Judkins –

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(2011–present) ;Former *Aaron Mills –

(1996–1999) *Rob Eaton –

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(1997–1999) *Reid Raley –

, and forever honorary member (1999–2011, 2015) *Chuck Schaaf –

(2002), tour drums (2008)

Timeline

Discography

;Studio albums *''Absence Due to Projection'' (1999) *'' Hell is a Door to the Sun'' (2002) *'' If You Walk Before You Crawl, You Crawl Before You Die'' (2004) *'' Voices of Omens'' (2007) *''Rest'' (2011)

;Demos, EP, Splits and Compilations *''Suicide: The Quest For Oblivion'' (1997) *''Frozen Dawn IV Compilation'' (1998) *''Xenoglossalgia: The Last Stage of Awareness'' (1998) *''South of Hell Compilation'' (2001) *''Destroys All:A Tribute to Godzilla Compilation'' (2003) *''split 7inch w/Sloth (song-hell is a door live)'' (2004) *''Forge'' 7inch (songs Forge and Imbedded live) (2012) ;Live album *''Swallowed by the Void Forever: Live at Maryland Deathfest'' (2013)

References

External links

Official Relapse Records Band PageOfficial Myspace Page
Musical groups established in 1996 Heavy metal musical groups from Arkansas American sludge metal musical groups American doom metal musical groups Relapse Records artists {{US-metal-band-stub