AWE

Awe biography
Hailing from Athens, Greece, Awe is an enigmatic atmospheric black metal project, active since 2007. The band consists of musicians from the Greek black metal scene who wish to keep their identities secret. Taking cues from avant-garde black metal progenitors Blut aus Nord, Ved Buens Ende and Deathspell Omega (namely their Paracletus LP), Awe craft dissonant and sprawling, intricate compositions.

The mysterious group made their debut on 2014's Monomaniac Vol. 4 compilation, assembled by the Blastbeat Mailmurder record label, in which each artist contributed a track of no more than two minutes. Awe participated on a three way conceptual split with black metal-adjacent Greek artists Vacantfield and End on 2015's Moerae, with each band devoting a song to a particular goddess of fate. Awe's track, Clotho, features overt electronic and krautrock flourishes explicitly influenced by Tangerine Dream, Popol Vuh, Faust and Can. The same year saw the release of Awe's first full-length, Providentia, via Pulverised Records. The album, in the works since 2008, is described by the band as a transformative act in three parts about the total violent revolution of man in the face of an absurd, meaningless existence.

Awe will appeal to listeners of Dødheimsgard, Absconditus, Aosoth, Outre, Irkallian Oracle and Dodecahedron.


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