The Awakening

by Merciless

The Awakening cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1990
  • Label: Deathlike Silence
  • Country: Sweden
  • Length: 38:10
  • Community rating: 3.8/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Stefan Dahlstr枚m, Fredrik Karl茅n, Erik Wallin, Stipen, Roger Pettersson

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Historically significant as the very first release on Euronymous's legendary Deathlike Silence Productions, the Swedish quartet delivers a relentlessly fast and violent blend of thrash and death metal. The raw, infernal attack deeply influenced the developing aesthetic of the Scandinavian extreme underground.

Genres

Descriptors: death, antireligious, blast-beats, guttural, old-school

Tracklist

  1. Pure Hate (3:28)
  2. Souls Of The Dead (2:59)
  3. The Awakening (3:10)
  4. Dreadful Fate (2:47)
  5. Realm Of The Dark (3:52)
  6. Dying World + Bestial Death (6:43)
  7. Denied Birth (4:01)
  8. Bestial Death - Live (2:20)
  9. The Awakening - Live (3:09)
  10. Nuclear Attack - Live (2:26)
  11. Pure Hate - Live (3:10)

Credits

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