Releasedate: 05-09-2025
Label: Reaper Entertainment
Before The Dawn, a Finnish melodic death metal formation, will release the new album “Cold Flare Eternal“ on September 5, 2025 via Reaper Entertainment.
“Cold Flare Eternal” opens with “Initium”, setting a tone of dark ambition and brooding momentum. Tracks like “Fatal Design” were released ahead of the album and were described by Tuomas Saukkonen as “catchy, heavy like a ten-ton hammer and pushes forward like a freight train”, indicating the record’s balance of raw force and melodic hook
While listening to the full album we notice tracks like “As Above, So Below” and “Stellar Effect” offer glimpses of melodic reflection amid aggressive riffing, adding depth to the album’s emotional palette. Perfectly as we know Before The Dawn from. It seems like the band found their strongest suits and built them even stronger, a nice attention for detail can be recorgnized if you listen to the album with care.
The album delivers top of line for modern melodic death metal: the production is refined yet retains grit, allowing both weighty riffs and soaring melodies to shine. This dynamic interplay between brutality and beauty gives the album an atmospheric resonance that engages without resorting to excess. The tracklist shows a journey that moves from introspective opener to relentless finale.
Conclusion, “Cold Flare Eternal” appears to be a disciplined and emotionally resonant album, melding crushing heaviness with soaring melody in a clear production framework. While it revisits familiar territory within melodic death metal, the execution is precise, atmospheric, and emotionally grounded.
Line up:
- Tuomas Saukkonen – Guitar
- Paavo Laapotti – Vocals
- Juho Räihä – Guitar
- Pyry Hanski – Bass
Tracklist
- Initium
- Fatal Design
- As Above, So Below
- Mercury Blood
- Stellar Effect
- Flame Eternal
- Stronghold
- Destination
- Shock Wave
- Ad Infinitum