Awakening – Females in Extreme Music – Review

Awakening

Females in Extreme Music (Dwell)
by Scott Hefflon

Compiled by Raul (Dwell) and Rayshele Teige (formerly of Century Media), you’d trust this’d be a thoroughly researched comp containing the best, the rest, and the rare in regard to women in extreme metal. Seeing as how I’m not fuming because they left off my favorite face-painted, church-burning, under-produced growlers with an illegible logo (mostly ’cause I can’t think of any), I’ll trust their judgment that it doesn’t get any better than this. And that, dear reader, ain’t saying much. Perhaps I’ve got my perspective shoved too far up my pop culture pooper, but Awakening just fails to engage on any level. Dwell evidently sees value where I don’t (the polite phrasing would be “they appreciate an aesthetic to which I’m unattuned”), because I can’t find much of anything enjoyable here.