Metal
Relapse Records · 13 November 2026
Rwake played “The Return of Magik” in full and in order in their hometown the day after it came out. The studio album was released on 14 March 2025, and on the 15th the band took it to the stage at the Rev Room in Little Rock, Arkansas, at a show Relapse was already saying would be recorded for a possible live album. That album is “Built From Stardust – ‘The Return of Magik’ Live in Little Rock, AR”, which the label releases on 13 November 2026 digitally and as a double LP, with a first pressing on “Copper Black Ice” vinyl.
The six tracks follow the original running order, from “You Swore We’d Always Be Together” to “Φ”, and add up to around fifty-seven minutes. The longest piece is once again “Distant Constellations and the Psychedelic Incarceration”, which runs past fifteen minutes here; the studio version, just shy of fourteen, features a text written and spoken by Jim “Dandy” Mangrum of Black Oak Arkansas, recorded on 17 February 2024 in Black Oak.
“The Return of Magik” arrived more than thirteen years after “Rest”, which Relapse released on 27 September 2011, and was recorded in early 2024 at East End Sounds in Hensley, also in Arkansas. It’s credited to the six-piece of Chris Terry (vocals), Brittany Fugate (keys and vocals), Reid Raley (bass), John Judkins and Austin Sublett (guitars) and Jeff Morgan (drums, acoustic guitar and 12-string bass).
Text by Roger Estivill