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Awaken

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Century Sleeper
Awaken

....is the result of a collaboration between James Allin of Ikarian/Visionaire and Ian Arkley of My Silent Wake and The Other Window (ex member of Seventh Angel/Ashen Mortality/Paramaecium). The debut 'Awaken' was recorded last year in Monroe near Seattle at James' home studio, and is now due for a spring 2006 release. The album was written by Ian in the UK and James in the USA with demos going back and forth between the 2 members of the band. The bulk of 'Awaken' took just over a week to record and all the engineering was done by James who perfected the sound of the recording over the following months. The album was then mastered in the UK by Jeff Mortimer at Ideal mastering. Guest female vocals on Awaken were provided by Kate Hamilton of My Silent Wake. The album has over 70 mins of music and 11 songs.
The songs on the album are as follows;
Voyage,
Arnos Vale,
My Face In Eternity,
Look Straight Through,
Lost On Your Ocean,
Fainted World,
Centenary,
Your Once Loving Heart,
The End,
As I Close The Final Page,
Autumn
THE ALBUM IS NOW AVAILABLE VIA VARIOUS DISTRIBUTORS.
REVIEWS - Here are some excerpts from various reviews:
....The guitars are crushing at times, but also full of melancholy and haunting melodies. Like I've said of Arkley's playing before...when he plays the guitar, it's almost as if it's another vocalist and not just an instrument. It just seems to convey sadness and emotion like only the human voice can. And speaking of the human voice, the vocals here are tremendous...probably Arkley's best yet. His clean vocals are incredibly eerie and frightening. And his occasional deathly growls are deep and powerful. I'm just loving it!!! Katherine Hamilton also lends some gorgeous female vocals to a few of the songs. While they are not as frequent as what you would find on Ashen Mortality's albums, they are perfect placed and do nothing but help the songs. And then there are James Allin's talents that are displayed magnificently on the drums and keyboards..... 95/100 (Matt Morrow-The Whipping Post online zine)
...Mr Arkley's voice is uncannily similar to erstwhile Anathema/The Blood Divine vocalist Darren White and added to the fairly hefty slice of Pink Floyd influenced shimmering guitar melodies that are used throughout this album really should appeal to fans of earlier Anathema work....There are obvious influences from Britain's other two members of the 90s "big three", too, with a lot of the heavier parts being reminiscent of Paradise Lost's "Icon" period and whilst the atmospheric passages give a nod to My Dying Bride they never sound quite as browbeaten by the world as Aaron Stainthorpe and his merry men (and woman) do. Century Sleeper, then, wear their influences very definitely on their sleeves but "Awaken" is more than a mere tribute album and is well capable of holding it's own amongst such illustrious company. .....they have the potential to be truly great. 7/10 (Neil woodfin Powerplay issue 82)
Wow, what an album! Century Sleeper is an interesting project from James Allin (Visionaire) and Ian Arkley (of My Silent Wake, and formerly of Seventh Angel & Ashen Mortality). Rumors about this album were already promising, but Awaken is even better than expected. This is a massive doom metal album with all the things that made Seventh Angel in the early nineties so attractive. Add to that the dark passion of Ashen Mortality and bit of old Paradise Lost. This is by far the best effort Ian Arkley ever has come up with. The guitars are heavy and are combined with melodic lead guitar playing, the vocals are dark (both the clean vocals as the grunts), and the rhythm section is powerful, while the keyboard give the songs the final touch. I really dig songs like Voyage, Arnos Vale, Lost On Your Ocean and Autumn. The rest of the songs are worth my while too. This is an album to be proud of! I love it! (Art For The Ears Webzine)
.....You could ask why on earth has this collaboration happened, and certainly in the form it is presented; well, that is until you actually listen to the quality of the music. Both musicians are fantastic and 'Awaken' provides an excellent insight for fans of either Allin or Arkley to check out the musicianship of the other. Lyrically it's pretty stunning too..... For folowers of Ian Arkley, this may well be one of his best ever albums....(Greg Sammons Crossrhythms 9/10) MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile Generator

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Member Since: 1/16/2006
Band Website: blackplanet0.freeserve.co.uk/centurysleeper.htm
Band Members: IAN ARKLEY/Lead vocals, lead guitar, bass, ebow.
JAMES ALLIN/Keyboards, guitar, bass, drums, programming, background vocals.
Influences: Type-O-Negative, My Dying Bride, Celtic Frost, Dead Can Dance, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave, The Sisters Of Mercy, Paradise Lost, David Helpling, and other various metal and atmospheric influences.
Sounds Like: Gothic/doom/atmospheric/death metal
Record Label: Bombworks/Cold Fusion
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

More songs from Awaken

I have just posted 3 songs from Awaken to go with Voyage. Hope those that don't own the cd will enjoy these songs. Ian.
Posted by CENTURY SLEEPER on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 04:48:00 PST

Spam comments

Please note that anyone who leaves a spam comment about penis enlargement, or anything else for that matter, will be removed from our friends list. Thanks to everyone who has left genuine co...
Posted by CENTURY SLEEPER on Wed, 23 May 2007 05:36:00 PST

Review in Powerplay (UK)

There is a positive review (7/10) of Awaken in the November edition of Powerplay magazine. (This is issue 82 of the magazine.) http://www.powerplaymagazine.co.uk/home.html  ...
Posted by CENTURY SLEEPER on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:28:00 PST

Awaken review at The Whipping Post

There is a new review for Awaken here: http://thewhippingpost.tripod.com/
Posted by CENTURY SLEEPER on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 03:06:00 PST

Ashen Mortality fans please read....

For those of you that were fans of my previous band, Ashen Mortality, I have some very sad news; Tim Cooper, who had been battling leukaemia for the past 2 years, died on the 17th Aug. Tim was the bas...
Posted by CENTURY SLEEPER on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:01:00 PST

ALBUM RELEASE pt2

The album 'Awaken' is finally being released tomorrow (1st August 2006) Thanks to everyone who has waited patiently for our debut album-hope you all enjoy it! All the best, Ian.  ...
Posted by CENTURY SLEEPER on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:54:00 PST

Album release

The album will at last be released-hopefully in the next few weeks. We will keep eveyone posted and send out a bulletin when we have a definite date. Thanks to everyone for supporting us and waiting p...
Posted by CENTURY SLEEPER on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 03:53:00 PST

Download

There is now a Century Sleeper song to download at Bombworks website. The address is www.bombworksrecords.com There is also a My Silent Wake song to download. The album has now been delayed til March...
Posted by CENTURY SLEEPER on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:42:00 PST

Hello

Hi to everyone who views this site. Over the next few days I will be adding new information, photos and music, so at last everyone can get an idea of what Century Sleeper is about. The album is now be...
Posted by CENTURY SLEEPER on Wed, 18 Jan 2006 05:51:00 PST