Pounding the pavement on the NYC music scene for nearly a decade, the veteran metal troupe Black Dawn has retained a simple yet effective approach: keep it heavy. And heavy is what these metal merchants are all about, as the outfit’s latest 11-track offering is a power groove machine primed and ready to explode. Age Of Reason contains a blend of a Sabbath meets Pantera by way of ‘80s thrash metal, laden with moody vocals not unlike Life of Agony or Alice in Chains. Black Dawn’s brand of dark, chunky riffs on tracks like “I Am Who I Am” and “Push” should keep the heads bobbing, while the atmospheric acoustically led “Four Rings of the Moon” showcase a more laid back side to the pummeling quartet. Black Dawn has persevered and has remained intact throughout all of the struggles of keeping a NYC band together, and Age Of Reason resonates those successes and frustrations with unabashed metallic glory.
Mike SOS, Crusher Magazine
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