Stockholm · Metalcore · Arising Empire
Awake The Dreamer
Crushing breakdowns. Ethereal soundscapes. Soaring hooks.
HOLOCENE — the second album. Out now on all platforms.
Album · 2024 · Arising Empire
Holocene
The second full-length and the heaviest, most personal record the band has ever made. Ten tracks built around themes of isolation, transformation, and human fragility — ambient soundscapes braided into breakdowns that don't flinch. Limited purple 12" LP available worldwide.
About the band
Stockholm, since 2014
Awake The Dreamer is a Stockholm-based metalcore quartet signed to Arising Empire. Since 2014, the band has been building a sound that lives at the intersection of post-hardcore honesty and metalcore weight — melodic where it matters, violent where it counts.
Their 2019 debut Damaged Soulsintroduced the project to the European scene with features from Adept's Robert Ljung and Crystal Lake's Ryo Kinoshita. Five years and a handful of singles later, HOLOCENE arrived in 2024 — a heavier, more ambient evolution of the sound, led off by Take My Hand, Broken Home, and Tides.
The band has shared stages with Ice Nine Kills and Northlane across European and Asian touring runs. A third studio album is currently in development.
Vocals
Max Andrén
Guitar
Erik Eghammar
Bass
Henric Packendorff
Drums
Joel Enrique-Felix
Live
Tour Dates
No shows announced yet.
New dates drop on Instagram first. Follow @awakethedreamer for the announcement.
Discography
Recent releases
- 2025See ThroughSingle
- 2025Save YouSingle
- 2025Years Begin to FadeSingle
- 2024TidesSingle
- 2024Take My HandSingle
- 2024HoloceneAlbum
- 2024ViolenceSingle
- 2024Broken HomeSingle
- 2023LabyrinthSingle
- 2019Damaged SoulsAlbum