I know I've posted about this band before, but I've yet to dedicate an entire thread to them! =)
I first heard these guys via the $2 used bin. I found My Darkness there and thought it was an awesome gothic metal album with some death influences! Then a while later I found the follow-up, 4:17am, in the $2 section as well! Again, a killer album. Before The Dawn quickly became one of my favorite goth-metal bands! When they recently released The Ghost, their third album, I wasn't waiting to find it for $2.
Before The Dawn is Tuomas Saukkonen. He is the band. While recording The Ghost he found himself with a lot of material so he took the material more closely resembling previous Before The Dawn albums for The Ghost; he 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. They're two of the best releases of 2006.
If you're interested, check them out.
Taken from The Ghost:
BLACK DAWN (Video)
DISAPPEAR (Clip)
NOWHERE (Clip)
Taken from Dawn Of Solace's The Darkness (Clips):
I WAS NEVER THERE
DEAD AIR
WRATH OF GOD AMONGST US
Taken from 4:17 am (Clips):
SEED
INTO YOU
VENGEANCE
Taken from the Gehenna* EP:
NOT DIVINE AS THEM (Video)
* An early EP that I've not heard. In fact, this is the only song I've heard from it; the verse vocals are not very cool. The rest is great, though.
