Formed in 2000, the Californian extreme industrial outfit Dawn of Ashes – a metaphor for the ‘beginning of an end’ – rose to popularity with their striking effort, Sacred Fever, in 2005. The record utilized horror-based electronic music (also known as Terror EBM or aggrotech) and industrial influences a la Ministry and KMFDM to create a harrowing, bass-riddled soundscape. The band shifted towards melodic black metal in 2010’s Genocide Chapters, a sound which would later be incorporated as they shifted back to their electronic roots. After a breakup period from December 2013 to their revival in 2016, 2017 saw the release of their ninth studio effort, Daemonolatry Gnosis, which further accentuated their black metal appreciations and symphonic seductions. 2019’s The Crypt Injection II (Non Se...
