Roadside Heretics
Artist: The Awakening
Label: Independent
Released: 2002
Type: Full-Length
Rating: This album has not yet been rated.
In June 2002 Nyte recorded The Awakening's most aggressive, guitar-driven album to date, Roadside Heretics. Garrick van der Tuin replaced Glenn Welman as a live drummer which influenced the harsher sounds heard on the album. Thematically, Roadside Heretics deals with a discriminated-against and isolated people, a subject well known to South Africa. According to Nyte, Roadside Heretics marked a new era for The Awakening, as he focused on capturing the trademark live performance intensity within the album's sound. One of the album's singles, The Maker spent two weeks at No. 1 on the South African rock charts.
Additional reviews drew attention to the "quieter pieces" of the album such as songs like "My World" as they showcase the strengths of Ashton Nyte in "both vocals and composition."
Lineup
Ashton Nyte - Vocals/All Instruments
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