Beyond Dawn

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Beyond Dawn is a Norwegian avant-garde metal band comprised of Espen Ingierd, Petter Haavik, Tore Gjedrem, and Einar Sjursø. They are described on their official website as "Norway's Best & Least Selling Act", which most likely insinuates Beyond Dawn's distinct artistic integrity being connected with their relative lack of commercial success. After two demo tapes in 1990 and 1991, the band were picked up by French label Adipocere Records, which made possible the band's first two commercial releases in 1993 and 1994. During the span of their career, Beyond Dawn's sound has gradually evolved from doom metal to a kind of minimalistic electropop. Perhaps the most striking among the changes in the band's sound is the now-absent trombone, which was a core part of Beyond Dawn's sound on nearly all of their 90's works, but has yet to make an appearance on their most recent output. Due to the limited commercial success of Frysh, the band went on hiatus in 2003 to focus on other projects. Some time later, several tracks from Frysh were remixed by various electronic and EBM artists and released in the form of the double LP We're Down With Species of Any Kind in 2005. As of 2007, there are currently no plans being set into stone for Beyond Dawn's future.