{"id":8867,"date":"2024-09-06T19:51:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T00:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8867"},"modified":"2024-09-06T19:51:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T00:51:38","slug":"the-awakening-shares-dark-shimmery-mirror-midnight-ahead-of-12th-album-tour-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8867","title":{"rendered":"THE AWAKENING shares dark shimmery ‘Mirror Midnight’ ahead of 12th album + Tour Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Lush, dark, and infectious… A legacy act in their own right, The Awakening offers us a stunning, most welcome introduction to their newest album”<\/em>\u00a0~\u00a0The Spill Magazine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gothic Rock \/ Darkwave act <\/strong>The Awakening<\/strong><\/a> shares their new single ‘Mirror Midnight’<\/a><\/strong>, which underscores historical tendency towards self-obsession and the media’s recurring manipulation of self-perception. This is the first taste of their self-titled album<\/strong><\/a> (their 12th to date), which will be released on October 18 via Intervention Arts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now based in the USA, The Awakening is a dark musical project formed in Johannesburg, South Africa in the late \u201990s as the creative expression of vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Ashton Nyte<\/strong>, who was anointed as “Johannesburg’s Bowie” for his widely varying musical styles and theatrical performances. Having morphed over the years, The Awakening’s sound incorporates numerous genres, including gothic rock, darkwave, post-punk, electronic rock, folk noir, new wave and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also an author, actor and Renaissance man of sorts, Ashton Nyte <\/strong>created the ‘Mirror Midnight’ video<\/strong><\/a>, shot in his preferred black-and-white format, with a gothic noir film treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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