Oklahoma City’s underground and lauded sludge rock and metal quartet Chat Pile and Texan ambient and folk guitarist Hayden Pedigo could answer that question if it ever crossed your mind. Despite ...

Little Rock, Arkansas sludge metal vets Rwake have announced their first album in over 13 years, The Return of Magik, due March 14 via Relapse (pre-order). Recorded in early 2024 at East End Sounds in ...

The last time Rwake put out a new record, Barack Obama was in his first term as president of the United States. So much has changed since then. Now, 13 and a half years later, the Little Rock sludge ...

Forget what you think you know about heavy metal and any of its various proliferations — thrash, doom, sludge, etc. For me, that’s an easy ask. As I told Brittany Fugate, co-lead vocalist for the ...

In the late '90s, the sludge metal monsters known as Rwake came stomping out of Little Rock, Arkansas with a sound that could swallow universes. Rwake made crushing, rabid epics that regularly ...