| Tales of Absolution & Obsoletion | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | The Awakening |
| Cover: | The Awakening - Tales.jpg |
| Released: | June 2009 |
| Recorded: | 2009 Intervention Studios Johannesburg, South Africa and Chicago, IL USA |
| Genre: | Gothic rock, darkwave |
| Label: | Intervention Arts |
| Producer: | Ashton Nyte |
| Prev Title: | Razor Burn |
| Prev Year: | 2006 |
| Next Title: | Anthology XV |
| Next Year: | 2013 |
Tales of Absolution & Obsoletion is the eighth studio album by South African gothic rock band The Awakening, released worldwide via Intervention Arts in June 2009.
The Awakening's eighth full-length studio album released June 2009, Tales is described as "a return to Zeen/Dark Romantics-era classic gothic rock."[1] The album represents the longest lapse between releases, a full three years having passed since the band's previous release, Razor Burn. It was the first of the band's albums to be cross-continentally written and recorded, as the band has been based in the United States since late 2007 but recorded various tracks from Tales in both South Africa and the USA.[2] It is also the first of the band's albums to include Rose Mortem on piano and keyboards.[3]
All songs written by Ashton Nyte.