Reviews in English Swedish Metal - Sweden It´s f inally here! I have been waiting for this first full-length album since I first heared the three tracks short debut MCD "Frost-Work", released in the beginning of last year. This album is just as great, maybe better than the debut. It´s a great mix of quite extreme death metal and melodic metal, the melodic parts with awsome clean vocals is a great contrast to the brutal growl vocals, performed by the great singer Christian Älvestam (also in Unmoored). The guitars is really good too, melodic and aggressive at the same time, just as the drums. I kind of find this band similar to the old (good) Hypocrisy, Amon Amarth and a few other great bands from the land of melodic death metal. But I think that Solar Dawn have a really unique sound, and the songs is very varying with the great mix of brutality and melody. I only find one minus with this album, it is that the tracks "Punished By Silence" and "Artistic Blashpemy" also is available at the Frost-Work mini CD, I would have loved to eight totally fresh tracks, but it does not matter so much, all tracks that this band have done so far is really good. It have been done before, but not so often as good as this album. 9 of 10 Fredrik Underground Review (issue 41) - USA Readers will recall the profuse compliments bestowed upon Solar Dawn's debut MCD over a year ago. That mini-album - the band's demo on CD - introduced Solar Dawn as an At The Gates-influenced Swedish trio with a knack for crunchy speedeath metal. The band's full length is here, albeit with a nine month delay, and the pre-indicated modifications were no lie. The modified line-up of Christian Alvestam (singer/bassist), Anders Edlund and Andreas Månsson (guitars) and drummer Henrik Schonstrom have taken the music, occasionally slowed things down, compacted the proceedings into a more processed package and added much melody, rhythm and backing vocals to the entire affair. No where is the change more pronounced than on Punished By Silence rerecorded from the original demo/MCD version for use here. The song is slowed down, less frantic, features more rhythm guitars, vocals are more pronounced and is partly less aggressive as a result. Songs like Deep In Mourning and Vulturous Need even feature normal vocals with the latter sporting a rather rocky mid-riff. Solar Dawn is still a crunchy metal band with a good bit of bite; the catch might be that the sun might have risen on the slippery slope of a metal band losing heaviness and speed. The Darkest hour-metal broadcast - Sweden A new band here! Like me, you probably never heard of this band but let me tell you that you should make everything possible to listen to this CD. Really melodic Swedish Death metal. Fans of In Flames will love that a lot. The same kind of melodic guitar riff with a strong death vocal. They got good catchy grooves and the song are well written. The production is well done too, the sound is really clear! They this album at The Abyss studios and you can clearly notice that :) A name that I won't forget! Go get yours!!! Note: 85% Patrick Reviews in Swedish Close-Up Magazine (issue 51) - Sweden Jag får en underlig känsla av "Equinoctium". Jag ser framför mig ett gäng bönder (inget fel med det), jag är själv superlantis) som långt ifrån storstaden bestämmer sig för att lira hårdrock av den hårdare sorten. Dessa lantisar har ingen direkt kontakt med metropolen och bryr sig inte om underjorden. De köper inte speciellt många vax och har inte tillgång till den uppsjö av kultur som en tätort kan erbjuda. De följer inga trender. De kör sitt eget race. Som om tiden stått stilla. SOLAR DAWN från Skövde verkar ha fastnat med EDGE OF SANITY anno 1994 i lurarna. Tänk er att "Purgatory Afterglow" restaurerats för att passa in år 2000. Just melodierna och känslan för att skriva låtar är SOLAR DAWNS styrka. Att de dessutom plockar de smaskigaste russinen från sedvanlig heavy metal, blandar med en gnutta svartmetall och inte särledes ambitiösa progtendenser bidrar till smältdegeln på ett positivt sätt. De lyckas till och med komma undan med de vidrigt smöriga körerna. Brutaliteten ligger annars i leadsången, där det är growl som gäller. /Mattias Pettersson BACK!