| Throes of Dawn | |
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| Origin | Finland |
| Genres | Dark Metal (genre) |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Labels | Auto-Production (1994-1995) Woodcut Records (1995-1998) Wounded Love (2000-2004) Avantgarde Music (2004-2010) Firebox Records (2010-Present) |
| Associated acts | Rotten Sound Cartilage Vomiturition …And Oceans Black Dawn and Enochian Crescent Radical M Project Veristi Vuohivasara Enochian Crescent The True Black Dawn Nocturnal Feast |
| Website | Official website |
| Members | |
| Henri "Kaamos" Koivula Jani Heinola Harri Huhtala Jani "Martex" Martikkal Juha Ylikoski Henri Andersson |
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| Past members | |
| Matti Suomela Toni Jokinen Teemu Jokinen Mikko Mathias Pharmacist |
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Throes of Dawn is a Dark Metal band from Finland, formed in 1994 by Henri Koivula (vocals) and Jani Heinola (synth). Throes Of Dawn's Music and lyrics has been known as emotional and progressive Dark Metal (genre).
In early 2010 Throes of Dawn announces new member Keyboardist Heri Andersson [1] As said on metalunderground.com the one of the members quotes "We are very happy to announce a new addition to our line up. In Hard Rock Laager festival keyboardist Henri Andersson became our sixth permanent member. Mr. Andersson has been playing with us live since the beginning of 2010 and fits our gang perfectly. Welcome to the band Henri!"[2]
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The band's sounds are a mix between Synth and guitar's with their vocal styles blended with clean vocals with some additional growling and screaming vocals. The atmosphere of the band's music flows through the surreal and bittersweet end, to making it a soundtrack of life. The band's lyrics are often known as poetic, which is pointing towards the darker aspects of solitude, feelings of loss and the fears and pains of life. Their debut album Pakkasherra was released in 1997. The band has released five albums since then with their latest album "The Great Fleet Of Echoes". On April 30, 2010 the band played the entire album "The Great Fleet Of Echoes" from start to finish for their special live performance at the Graveyard Party 2010 in Gloria Helsinki.[3]
After Throes of Dawn got their full line up together, the band started making their first demo tape. After the demo tape was released the band sigend with Woodcut Records[4] in 1995 making it the first deal of the bands history. This first deal led to the bands very first release of their promo tape of Pakkasherra in 1996 which made it a official release for the album Pakkasherra in 1997. But later that year after the release of Pakkasherra the band supported the Norwegian black Metal Band Satyricon in Helsinki.
The band's second full-length album Dreams of the Black Earth was recored in the legendary Tico-Tico stuido in late 1997. This album had a unique sound to it, which made the bands music show how they developed from the Pakkasherra album and also showed how mature and organic the bands music sounded. Only one song of the album Dreams of the Black Earth was released as a taster in 1998 in The Blackened Rainbow MCD. In 1999 the bands second album Dreams of the Black Earth was released worldwide.
The Recording of the bands third album Binding of the Spirit took place in Tico-Tico studios in Autumn 1999. The album had a better sound quality to it the Previous albums along with the production was better, the band ended up showing a darker and more depressive side of their Dark Metal genre. The album was released through Avantgrade Music sub label Wounded Love[5] in Spring 2000. With the reviews of the album by the press and listeners were great, the album got good reviews worldwide.
Right after the third album Binding of the Spirit, things with the band members got complicated as the founders of the band Henri Koivula and Jani Heinola moved from their hometown Vaasa to Turku and Helsinki. During this time the band was practically dead for a few months and Jani and Henri were wondering of splitting up the band altogether. However during the course of time Jani and Henri decided Throes of Dawn was not dead yet and they got back together with the band with a new line up, with all members but Henri residing in Helsinki.
The new members came from bands that were already familiar to Jani and Henri from the times in Vaasa: the lead guitarist Juha Ylikoski had played with the band Rotten Sound, the bassist Harri Huhtala had played in Cartilage[6] and Vomiturition. Their drummer Jani Martikkala, had been with …And Oceans, Black Dawn and Enochian Crescent.[7]
After Several years of intense songwriting, Throes Of Dawn started recording their fourth album Quicksilver Clouds in 2003 at Sonic-pump studios in Helsinki. New features to the album combined into the traditional Throes of Dawn sound, which helped open a whole new version of the dark metal genre. After a year in the studio Quicksliver Clouds was finally released in 2004 by Avantgarde Music,[8] with great feedback from the metal press. During the promotion of the new album Throes of Dawn made numerous successful live shows with bands like Anathema, Orphaned Land and Green Carnation. Besides the band performing in Finland they also went to Germany, The Netherlands and Russia as well.
It took altogether 6 years for Throes of Dawn to release their 5th album "The Great Fleet of Echoes". After the release of Quicksilver Clouds the band started to experiment with new elements and sounds for their music. They composed new material and recorded new demos, but with lack of a deadline from the record label the pace was somewhat slow. The band eventually decided to record the album themselves, with the help of a familiar sound technician. The official recordings of the new album didn't start until around November 2007. Through some various locations, trails and sessions the recordings and mixing ended in November 2009.
The mastering of the The Great Fleet of Echoes was done in Finnvox studios, and the whole album had a good outcome. There is a flow in the new album like never before, which is introducing another dimension of the band. Subtle, melancholic, atmospheric and profound. The Great Fleet of Echoes has a clear expansion in the songwriting, which showed more progressive and melodic approach to the bands type of music. It has a firm of a logical step forward, to the musical journey into the essence of the band. The band's 5th album The Great Fleet of Echoes released worldwide through their current label Firebox Records in February 2010
In September 2009 Throes of Dawn signed to Firebox Records which would release their new album The Great Fleet Of Echoes in the beginning of 2010.[1]