DAWN OF RELIC Night On Earth (2005) CD

Finland has a way of producing metal that sounds like the sky is actually falling. Dawn of Relic were never household names, which is exactly the kind of thing that makes flipping through the right record bin feel like archaeology.

Night on Earth sits at the intersection of death and black metal with a cold, atmospheric quality that owes something to the Finnish tradition of making darkness feel enormous. Dawn of Relic occupied a specific niche in the early 2000s underground, technical enough to reward attention but never so clinical that the atmosphere bleeds out. This is a cult record for people who care about that era of Finnish extreme metal, the kind of thing that circulates between people who actually know the genre rather than just the genre's biggest names.

Full length album. Jewel case CD. Finland, 2005 pressing.

Fans of: Children of Bodom, Norther, Kalmah