Razor Burn is the seventh studio album by South African gothic rock band The Awakening, released on Massacre Records in Germany and Intervention Arts in Africa and the US in September 2006.

Razor Burn
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 2006
Recorded2006 Intervention Studios & Sonovision Music, Johannesburg, South Africa
GenreGothic rock, industrial rock
LabelIntervention Arts
Massacre Records
ProducerAshton Nyte & Jon Buckley
The Awakening chronology
Darker Than Silence
(2004)
Razor Burn
(2006)
Tales of Absolution and Obsoletion
(2009)

Recording

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Marketed as a "blend of pounding metal guitars and traditional gothic rock," the album features dark, moody industrial elements mixed with mid-tempo rock song structures. With the European distribution and marketing of Massacre Records it received additional media attention, wider distribution and positive reviews from alternative music press.[1][2]

Track listing

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  1. "Outside the Asylum"
  2. "Arrow"
  3. "Heaven Waits"
  4. "The Neon Sky"
  5. "Razor Burn"
  6. "Darkness Calls (Razor Burn part 2)"
  7. "Bleeding"
  8. "Descent"
  9. "Oblivion"
  10. "Halo"
  11. "Below"
  12. "Asylum"

References

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