Ethereal Menace

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{{Infobox album

| name = Ethereal Menace

| type = Album

| artist = The Awakening

| cover = The Awakening - Ethereal Menace.jpg

| alt =

| released = July 1999

| recorded = 1999 Nytesound Studios, Johannesburg, South Africa

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| studio =

| genre = Gothic rock, industrial rock, darkwave

| length =

| label = Intervention Arts

| producer = Ashton Nyte

| prev_title = Request

| prev_year = 1997

| next_title = The Fourth Seal of Zeen

| next_year = 2000

}}

Ethereal Menace is the third album by South African gothic rock band The Awakening released in July 1999.{{cite web|url=http://www.awakening.co.za/ethereal_menace.php |title=The Awakening - Ethereal Menace |accessdate=2007-09-22 |author=Intervention Arts |year=1999 |work=Intervention Arts |publisher=Intervention Arts |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607135734/http://www.awakening.co.za/ethereal_menace.php |archivedate=2007-06-07 |url-status=dead }} The album utilizes elements of industrial music, a style later dubbed as "dark future rock" {{cite web |url= http://www.hmmagazine.com/exclusive/ashton_nyte_interview200407/index.php|title= Ashton Nyte Interview |accessdate= 2008-04-06 |author= HM Magazine |year= 2004 |work= HM Magazine 2004.07 |publisher= HM Magazine |quote= }} by Nyte. Another music video was produced by South African Music Awards winner, director Eban Olivier's Concrete Productions, for the single "The March." The video was placed in rotation on MTV Europe.