Wake The Dead is an high energy hardcore band from Marseille (France) created in 2010. After 14 years, WTD played more than 350 shows over 30 different countries. Since 2023 ("You and Me Against the World"), with a decidedly more modern and punchy sound and production, followed by a new lead singer in 2024.
Glower from Hamburg: Armed with knowledge of and influenced by sounds from classic and contemporary Hardcore & Melodic HC, Metal, and the German Punk scene, the Hanseatic quintet has distilled a stirring and inciting brew of seething musical frenzy and ferocity as an outlet to address and process inevitable Weltschmerz and irritation.
Wake The Dead
Wake The Dead is a Hardcore band from Marseille (France) created in 2010. Like many self-produced / DIY bands, the band since his beginning emphasized his will to progress through live music with the motto "Driving for hours, playing half an hour". After more than 14 years, WTD played more than 350 shows over 30 different countries between Europe, Asia and Cuba . They had the chance to share the stage with bands with an international reputation in Punk and Hardcore such as Sick Of It All, Propagandhi, Counterparts, No Use For A Name, More Than Life, Get The Shot, Nasty, No Turning Back, Landmvrks, Death By Stereo, etc ...
Musically, the band has developed an heartleft and passioned modern hardcore universe with melodic keys, inspired by all the encounters and musical discoveries made during these past years.
After their debut album "The Things We Can't Forget" released in February 2011, followed by the release of the EP "Meaningless Expectations" in March 2012, two successive line-up changes brought new inspiration to write the album "Under The Mask" released in May 2016 on the German label Demons Run Amok that worked with Get the shot, Wisdom in Chains, Terror, Take Offense, and many others.
In 2016 and 2018, new singer and drummer changes occur, but still with the same motivation the band stayed the course, keep the shows going and continues to work to produce a new EP "Still Burning" released in March 2020 in co-production with APB Records, Burdigala Records, Engineer Records, Eternalis Records, Shield Recordings, Sleepy Dog Records and We Are Sharks Records.
In 2023, the band releases a new single, "You and Me Against the World", with a decidedly more modern and punchy sound and production, heralding their next album and the recording work undertaken with Florent Salfati of Landmvrks at the helm. At the beginning of 2024, after a complicated post-Covid period, and despite the band's participation in numerous festivals and concerts, another singer change took place. The band takes a fresh start and a new direction, with a female lead vocal and the continuation of the recording and production of its album, again by Florent Salfati, accompanied by a host of new projects.
The band is always keen to defend its music on the road, live, as it has always done.
Glower
From a psychological point of view, anger is the only basic human emotion that sets people apart, a coping mechanism free from the function of bonding with other people: thus, an autonomous emotion. Rage, as a propelling emotion fueling Tatendrang (the urge to act), is the ideal vehicle to change and address discomfort and disagreement on a personal, social and political level — the classic, foundational, and timeless tropes of Hardcore and Punk.
Hamburg upstarts glower (meaning: to look or stare with dislike, discontent, or anger) have more than enough on their plate to address and in their sullen sight: from everyday sexism in all its sudden and structural appearances to the faint swoon accompanying sexual violence, the capitalistic pressure on societal and personal scales, as well as the direct and interpersonal fury fueled by double standards. Glower, a product of sudden fortune and friendship, navigates the post-2020s world.The current world where intimate and international struggles sit and can be felt crammed side by side in the suburban trains scarred by capitalism, structural sexism, and social media with all its derailed collateral damage. Armed with knowledge of and influenced by sounds from classic and contemporary Hardcore & Melodic HC, Metal, and the German Punk scene, the Hanseatic quintet has distilled a stirring and inciting brew of seething musical frenzy and ferocity as an outlet to address and process inevitable Weltschmerz and irritation.
Short and simple, scathing and striking, Glower are here to stay and have already left a mark in the scene with only a couple of minutes released and a handful of promising gigs played. With an abundance of promising potential, you’d better make sure you don’t end up in their spiteful stare. -Walter Wahnsinn Jr
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