When Before the Dawn was preparing to record the third album “The Ghost“, Tuomas Saukkonen realised that he had over 30 songs written. First idea was to simply make a double album but some of the material written started to sound too slow and dark for the usual Before the Dawn-style and Tuomas decided to push that darker direction a bit further and form a completely new project called Dawn of Solace. The critically acclaimed debut album, titled “The Darkness“, got released in May 2006 and featured Before the Dawn vocalist Lars Eikind on clean vocals and Jukka Salovaara on guest vocals and solo guitar. After the album got released, several issues with the label forced the project to go on a hiatus for an undefined amount of time.
It took 13 long years and 14 written albums until an idea of a song came up that lit the flame to bring Dawn of Solace back from over a decade of rest. Time took care of the issues with labels and legally the band was free but 13 years had not taken away the crushing sadness that inspired the debut.
After the floodgate opened, the writing process for the album went really easy and fast and most of the music was composed during the final recordings as a rather free stream of thoughts instead of a result of carefully planned and long timed pre-production. “Waves” came out to be an honest picture of the current times for its writer. Grey, heavy and dark but still sorrow carrying certain beauty and strength and it saw the cold light of day January 24th 2020 on the new German record label Noble Demon.
“Waves” featured Mikko Heikkilä (Black Sun Aeon, Kaunis Kuolematon) as vocalist taking over all vocal duties and Lars Eikind (Before the Dawn) as guest vocalist for one song. Also Jukka Salovaara and Danny Tunker appeared on the album as guest solo guitarists. Already while recording “Waves” it was clear that Dawn of Solace was brought back to life and this time without the passing of another decade between the albums, since the third full-length record, titled “Flames Of Perdition“, was released in January 2022.
After an unplugged EP later in 2022, the band entered the studio in the beginning of 2024again to craft their most versatile album to date. “Affliction Vortex” is an embodiment of nordic melancholy and raw Finnish darkness and is set to be released 14th of February 2025 with the first single “Murder” leading the way.
Finnish melancholic metal virtuosos Dawn of Solace are gearing up for the release of their fourth studio album, ‘Affliction Vortex’, which is set for a February 14, 2025 release via Noble Demon. The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed ‘Flames of Perdition’ (2022) promises to be the band’s most diverse and powerful work to…
Dawn of Solace, the musical solo project of Tuomas Saukkonen (Wolfheart, Before the Dawn), has set the course for their highly anticipated new studio album ‘Affliction Vortex’, which will be released by Noble Demon and can be pre-ordered from today on CD and as a strictly limited vinyl edition. As a taster of the release,…
Like the approaching holiday season, the release of the annual Noble Demon label compilation has turned into a festive tradition itself! Now three years old and growing steadily, the German label has proven that they came to stay. Founded by former Nuclear Blast veteran Patrick Walch and with a steady stream of new signings from all around the world, Noble Demon has been…
The second album of Tuomas Saukkonen’s death and gothic doom metal icon “Dawn of Solace” was released as the first album ever on Noble Demon, the label freshly founded by Nuclear Blast veteran Patrick Walch and UCM.ONE. The album takes us into soundscapes of melodic metal, takes us into a world of deepest melancholy, and…
Dawn of Solace, the solo project of Wolfheart/Before The Dawn mastermind Tuomas Saukkonen, have released their brand new EP “Notes Of Perdition”, out today on Noble Demon. Just a few months after the release of their latest album “Flames Of Perdition”, the new EP from the Finnish masters of melancholy offers four intimate and soulful…
In January 2022 Dawn of Solace, the solo project by Wolfheart/Before The Dawn mastermind Tuomas Saukkonen, released its brand new album “Flames Of Perdition” via Noble Demon. With eight brand new tracks (+ two bonus songs), the album turned out to be nothing but what you would expect from the death and goth metal icon:…
