The Awakening is the 12th Album by Los Angeles based, South African Goth dark wave act The Awakening, that is currently the solo project of Ashton Nyte who is also in Beauty In Chaos and is an actor.
Ashton recorded and produced the album at Intervention Studios
This opens in suitably dark way, almost sonar noises and clanging chimes of Shimmer. The drums and vocals come in at the start of Mirror Midnight the albums main single, Ashton Nyte's wondering what you do with that mirror at midnight in the darkness, are you seeking 69 Eyes or ready for The Wake to stir the darkness deep in your soul, among the blurred lines of your mind.
Through The Veil you can glimpse Ashton twirling and moving in the shadows of another Goth club, hoping to be enveloped in your arms once more.
Your Vampire takes him into similar territory to Inkubus Sukkubus this is a quite striped back gothic vision of a more pagan lifestyle, he's looking for some light among the ruins.
Haunting has a huge club beat, set against doom-laden riff to help you hold onto the last vestiges of hope, that you can escape being haunted forever more, over a tinkling piano and glass of vino nightmarish visions erupt.
Below The Emptiness has a minimal intro with some glistening keyboard notes, guitar slowly wailing in the background, the void opens up to the slowly enunciated vocals.
See You Fall is full on floor filling EBM goth, Ashton tells us what will happen with one breath, in a voice a little lower than Ville Valo's, whatever happens he doesn't want to See You Fall.
Fallout go home stop all your fussing and fighting, put that fuse out, don't leave that decimation everywhere you go, scattergun guitar seeking retribution, while trying to stop the needless slaughter, trying to save all the innocent victims.
Sliver is just that an ambient interlude intro to Not Here, no don't let that happen here, this is slow acoustic All About Eve with a Pete Steele vocalist rather than Julianne Regan style, more blood is spilled in these sorrowful times.
Cabaret is taking place in a dark labyrinthine club, you try to dance away the emptiness, that can only be exorcized to pounding beats, connecting with a room full of dark souls, seeking a way to express their emotions, becoming themselves, confessions complicated by the visions of the twisted Cabaret this life has become.
Continuum sounds like its set on a Viennese battlefield, big guns report, pipers lead off to yet another pointless, endless battle, when will it all end. Trying to crawl to safety once more.
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