Style: Folk black metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: Anarchy, lawlessness, anti-fascism
Thoughts: Folk black metal is a... tough genre for me to get into most of the time. It's filled with so many different entries that most of them end up being generic black metal with a violin and tin flute playing over it. I've heard that many times and there isn't enough differentiation between them for me to care anymore.
That's what makes Dawn Ray'd a bit peculiar. They fall into nearly every description of the genre perfectly... yet somehow it ends up sounding way better and memorable than 99% of their contemporaries.
The riffs are melodic and fast. They channel a fervor that not many bands have these days. There is a passion here that is hard to deny. Combine that with a tasteful smattering of a violin from time to time and you have an album that easily stands above the average entry into the folk black metal field.
The folk and the black metal are in equilibrium. They are not competing with each other, rather they compliment each other. Sometimes the guitars will take the lead and the violin will compliment in the background. Other times the violin has the lead and the guitars play the compliment. In nearly all circumstances this combination works, and works well.
There are too many black metal bands for me to listen to. There are too many generic bands for me to waste my time on. Dawn Ray'd is neither of these. They have shown that they are masters of their craft and are able to create music that is neither derivative nor boring.
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