The Darkness by Dawn of Solace
What do you do if you have a few great songs in your hindquarters, but they don’t fit the material of your own band and you don’t want to change the sound of the main combo consistently? Right – you just start another project. So Tuomas Saukkonen, singer/guitarist and creative power behind Before the Dawn. When he suddenly realizes during the work on the third Before the Dawn album “The Ghost” that he has a whole series of good songs, which are however clearly darker, more melancholic or simply different than what he has in mind with his main band, he brings the dark “twin” Dawn of Solace into life.
The first album entitled “The Darkness” contains a melodic sound similar to Before the Dawn, though with a much stronger Gothic Metal and Doom Metal influence.
The debut album “The Darkness” was released in May 2006 with Before the Dawn singer Lars Eikind and Jukka Salovaara (guest vocals and solo guitar). After the release, several problems with the label forced the project to take a break for an indefinite period. All the more we are proud to release this legendary album in November 2019 (“Black Friday“) again on the label Noble Demon.
Tracklist
| 1. | Dying Daylight | 2:50 |
| 2. | Wings Of Darkness Attached On The Children Of The Light | 7:24 |
| 3. | I Was Never There | 6:51 |
| 4. | Dead Air | 5:20 |
| 5. | I Am Chaos, I Am Destruction | 6:01 |
| 6. | Winter Song | 2:37 |
| 7. | Wrath Of Gods Amongst Us | 4:55 |
| 8. | Avalanche | 3:39 |
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When Before The Dawn was preparing to record 3rd album ”The Ghost” Saukkonen realized that he
had over 30 songs written. First idea was to simply make an double album for BTD but some of the
material written started to sound too slow and dark for BTD style and Saukkonen decided to push that
darker direction a bit further and form a completely new project called Dawn Of Solace.