| Razor Burn | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | The Awakening |
| Cover: | The Awakening - Razor Burn.jpg |
| Released: | September 2006 |
| Recorded: | 2006 Intervention Studios & Sonovision Music, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Genre: | Gothic rock, industrial rock |
| Label: | Intervention Arts Massacre Records |
| Producer: | Ashton Nyte & Jon Buckley |
| Prev Title: | Darker Than Silence |
| Prev Year: | 2004 |
| Next Title: | Tales of Absolution and Obsoletion |
| Next Year: | 2009 |
Razor Burn is the seventh studio album by South African gothic rock band The Awakening, released on Massacre Records in Germany and Intervention Arts in Africa and the US in September 2006.
Marketed as a "blend of pounding metal guitars and traditional gothic rock," the album features dark, moody industrial elements mixed with mid-tempo rock song structures. With the European distribution and marketing of Massacre Records it received additional media attention, wider distribution and positive reviews from alternative music press.[1] [2]