Genre: Rhythmic Industrial / Dark Ambient

01 Antibiotic
02 Disciples (send out)
03 Waning Moon
04 Ground One
05 Shield
06 New Moon
07 Profanitas
08 Dark Sparkle
09 Waxing Moon
10 Amphisikios
11 Doubt Your Sanity
12 Full Moon

Death of Dawn is a band coming from Netherlands, experimenting with industrial sound and creating soundscapes of different kinds through its experiments - from slow, deep and dark synth-based ambient passages to electro dancefloor tracks having sometimes raw power noise-ish sound and usually simple rhythm structures.

Antibiotic - the beginning of the album. Gives the mood to the whole release. The thing that gladdened me - broken rhythms. I was waiting for continuation of this theme, but there was none. However, I managed to find other elements that form this album and are able to make it interesting to various kinds of listeners.

The second track - minimalistic, robotic, straight - those are epithets for this track, it is all in the track's title - Disciples.

Ambient is a kind of music that gives you most of impression and ambient parts of the album are of the same kind - you're not limited by rhythm and any other kind of expression that shows the direction to your imagination and sometimes even keeps leading you through the whole track. Waning Moon - a beginning of the Moon cycle, consisting of 4 tracks. New Moon - deep ambient sound, transparent, not viscous, crystal, a bit cosmic, sometimes you get a feeling that you hear bells ringing in the wind or you're in a garden where you can recognise birds singing and some kind of a danger slowly approaching you unseen. I had the similar feelings listening to Caul's “Sound of Faith”, but only to that extent it reminds Caul.

Ground One is a track that continues dark ambient line, having it in the background and adds the mood of dark electro mixed with weird distorted industrial sounds typical for power noise music. Synth passage adds "melody" to the track and makes it lighter and more listenable. However, in some moments one has to go through the wall of rhythm to catch the tunes.

Shield is the most EBM/dark ellectro-ish track on the album I guess. Simple dancy rhythm, repeatitive tune consisting of 4-5 notes, a few speech patters together with distorted vocals create a fine 120 bpm dancefloor track.

Profanitas - another ambient track, but rather rougher, as it seemed to me, with a use of distorted guitar. But this track seems to be rather a connection between the styles accumulated within this album: a heavy industrial rhythm that breaks into the track in the middle - very slow, distorted with high pitched synth that give you a feeling of disturbance.

Dark Sparkle is in the vein of primitive power noise acts: straight distorted kick and a couple of other distorted sounds that set off the main "theme" (if I may call it so). This track contrary to the previous ambient ones doesn't have a deep atmosphere, many layers - all the "melody lines" (read: rhythm patterns) are presented to your ears - you don't need to listen to it many times hoping to hear something else hidden inside the track.

Waxing moon is the track of the same series as New Moon and Waning Moon. But again contains some rhythm which approximates it to the rest of the album tracks, but this kind of rhythm is closer to the one created with standard set of drums than a mix of weird industrial scratches and beats. The last one of four - Full Moon follows the path made by the previous tracks, but has much more in common with New Moon track rather than with three others - concerning atmosphere, means of expression, the mood - it is the most light and “weightless” track on the whole album. I even asked myself something like "what does it have to do with the rest of the album?"

Amphisikios seemed to me more of dark electro/EBM. Interesting thing - there're two types of vocals presented, so sometimes the listener gets an impression of a dialogue between two voices - one is traditionally distorted half whisper/half shout and another one is reverberated and distorted voice with a complaining/mournful intonation.

Doubt your sanity - certain sounds made me think to Iszoloscope's “Le Denominateur Common” from Au Seuil de Neant. Just the track is less smooth, having more "corners", being rawer, abrasive and having less noisy background.

This album leaves a pleasant impression and a wish to take it from the shelf one day and give it a few more listens.