For me, that’s an easy ask. As I told Brittany Fugate, co-lead vocalist for the newly resurrected Arkansas-based doom/sludge metal band Rwake (pronounced “wake”), I’m not a heavy metal guy.

In the first decade of the 21st century, when there was a lot of weight being thrown behind the burgeoning “southern sludge” movement, Little Rock’s Rwake (pronounced “wake”) tore off an ...

Yet it ended up being oddly fitting; this is real, no frills metal, with a genuine home cooked feel to it. The difference between Rwake and so many of their peers, this performance would make clear, ...