Street Date: 5/25/18
Autumn 2017 sees the UK’s Dawn Ray'd return with their first full length LP and second 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 from what their 2015 debut EP, A Thorn, A Blight, revealed to us.
Recorded by Tom Dring at Vagrant Studios, The Unlawful Assembly is divided into two parts: The Wild Service and The Wild Magic; it is equal parts malice and spite; ethereality and exultation. From the clean singing of A Litany To Cowards to the thrashing pace of Emptiness Beneath The Great Emptiness, the album “breathes new fire into black metal's small but sturdy leftist tradition, crafting potent, violin-laced atmospheric black metal songs that double as battle hymns for the class war” – Noisey.
Tracklist
| The Wild Service | ||
| A1 | Fire Sermon | 4:28 |
| A2 | The Abyssal Plain | 4:13 |
| A3 | Future Perfect Conditional | 4:20 |
| A4 | Emptiness Beneath The Great Emptiness | 3:17 |
| A5 | A Litany Of Cowards | 3:10 |
| The Wild Magic | ||
| B1 | The Ceaseless Arbitrary Choice | 4:46 |
| B2 | Held In A Lunar Synthesis | 4:28 |
| B3 | Strike Again The Hammer Sings | 4:32 |
| B4 | Island Of Cannibal Horses | 5:07 |
| B5 | A Thought, Ablaze | |