Wasteland

Hope He Breaks Your Heart

Hold Me Gently

Spirit Has Awakened

Welcome to our updated, intense cover of The Cure's classic song "Sinking," from their 1985 album "The Head of the Door."

Sinking

Hey Donald (No Kings)

Welcome to MAGAmerikkka

This is the Official Artist Page for Universus, Drew Vawter's alternative rock project based in the United States and begun in the early 2000s in Atlanta, GA. We are the *only* Universus. 

The musical project of lyricist, vocalist, and guitarist Drew Vawter, who plays, performs, arranges, and records most of the instrumentation himself, Universus was formed in the early 2000s as a means of channeling ever-present and reoccurring past, and ongoing, trauma. 
 
After an unexpected and traumatic death and the subsequent depression, Drew went to on self-record Universus’s first album. Aggressive, raw, and melodic with songs ranging from acoustic blues, psychedelic rock akin to The Doors, gothic rock and recorded in a basement studio on a Tascam 4-track, “Zero” encapsulates the dark, romantic and rebellious themes that would define Universus. 

Two long musical hiatuses later, between releases, which culminated in unexpected life-changing circumstances, Universus in 2024 began regularly releasing singles for what was to be their third studio album “Wasteland,” in the works since 2017. The 2024 election changed that:

“During that putrid morass [of Trump’s] 2024 campaign, and culminating in the election and events immediately after the inauguration, a new angst-ridden artistic necessity consumed me, something I hadn’t experienced since I first started writing music—it became a new muse, rebelling against an authoritarian takeover and the moral and ethical decay happening here in America.” —Drew Vawter

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