I'm not sure how many people will dig this band here, but I figured I'd post about them because I think they're really underrated, one of my favorite recent bands.
Before The Dawn is lead by Tuomas Saukkonen, who writes 99% of the songs. He is largely supported by Lars Eikend (
Winds,
Age Of Silence, ex
-Khold), who does the clean singing, plays guitar and bass.
I pulled their first two full-length albums,
My Darkness and
4:17am, from the $2 bin like four years ago (they have two previous self-financed demos). They have four albums total, or five, depending on how you view the companion album. While recording
The Ghost, the third album, Tuomas found himself with a lot of material, so he took the material more closely resembling the previous
Before The Dawn albums for
The Ghost; he then took the more mellow material and created a new project called
Dawn Of Solace, which is essentially just a slower, more mellow version of
Before The Dawn (hence the name). Tuomas released a companion album under this project called
The Darkness, which is great. In 2007,
Before The Dawn released a new album entitled
Deadlight, which was preceded by a single for the song
"Deadsong" (I reviewed the single
HERE). Another single for the song
"Faithless" has since been released.
If you're interested, check them out.
Taken from
Deadlight:
DEADSONG (Video)
MORNING SUN (Clip)
WRATH (Clip)
Taken from
The Ghost:
BLACK DAWN (Video)
DISAPPEAR (Clip)
NOWHERE (Clip)
Taken from Dawn Of Solace's
The Darkness:
DEAD AIR (Video)
I WAS NEVER THERE (Clip)
WRATH OF GOD AMONGST US (Clip)
Taken from
4:17 am:
SEEDVENGEANCE