"The way of the South" has resonated through southern music for generations and the way it seems, for southern metal bands is often raw, to-the-point, unfiltered expression; unflinching delivery oozing with conviction. The southern bands just mean it a bit more. Arkansas backwoods doomsayers RWAKE awaken from their slumber and unleash their long-awaited new album 'Rest'. Their first new material in over 4 years, Rest is less a set of songs than a perpetually evolving, deeply emotional set of missives heralding the end of times. 'Rest' is nothing short of epic, and not only one of 2011s finest albums but one of the finest progressive/doom/sludge metal records ever.