British blackened crust / neoclassical metal act DAWN RAY’D have just unveiled the details of their first full length record called ‘The Unlawful Assembly’, recorded, mixed and mastered earlier this year at Vagrant Recordings with Tom Dring, and spiced up with an amazing art by Michael Chance (logo and layout by Rodrigo Almanaegra). Slated for an Octber 2nd release via Halo of Flies Records (US) and Feast of Tentacles (UK/EU) and the band’s own label Action Now!, the new offering seems to be even more finely hewn than its 2015 predecessor, resulting in a something that’s both profoundly tangible and truly sensual.
Autumn 2017 sees Dawn Ray’d return with their first full length LP and second ever release, The Unlawful Assembly. Pitching a more spiteful and malevolent anger against a new found triumph of melody and blasts, Dawn Ray’d delve deeper into the world ‘A Thorn, A Blight’ revealed to us. The record is divided into two parts, The Wild Service and The Wild Magic; it is equal parts malice and spite, and ethereallity and exultation. From the clean singing of ‘A Litany To Cowards’ to the thrashing pace of ‘Emptiness Beneath The Great Emptiness’, The Unlawful Assembly is a multi-pronged attack, but with one consistent message, inaction is not an option.
This is a 10-song strong call to arms, these are battle hymns for the coming class war.
Photo by Rob Adamson
Lyrics:
Either you and I see too much happiness
Or not enough,
I can’t remember what we settled upon.
Is it the optimism of certain knowledge
Or our current disappointment,
That keeps us running ahead?I heard that you can never truly see the present,
That after the time it takes
The light to hit your brain,
Everything you see is already past.
This leaves us two options.
Do we settle for nostalgia as all we’ll ever process,
Or delight in the speed,
The winding of times path?We must stop loosing the pressure valves,
Let the shadows grow!
This must never be palatable,
Let the shadows grow!The insipid glare of orthodoxy,
Conformity’s unforgiving spotlight,
Chases magic to the perimeter line,
Leaving darkness as our only adventure.For all the times we’ve been sold out,
All the land that’s been let down,
For all the families poverty drowns,
Let the shadows grow!
