Artist: Breaking Benjamin
Album: Dark Before Dawn
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2015
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 42:48
Total Tracks: 12
Total Size: 1,01 GB

Tracklist:

01. Breaking Benjamin – Dark (02:10)
02. Breaking Benjamin – Failure (03:34)
03. Breaking Benjamin – Angels Fall (03:48)
04. Breaking Benjamin – Breaking the Silence (03:01)
05. Breaking Benjamin – Hollow (03:51)
06. Breaking Benjamin – Close to Heaven (04:09)
07. Breaking Benjamin – Bury Me Alive (04:04)
08. Breaking Benjamin – Never Again (03:43)
09. Breaking Benjamin – The Great Divide (04:12)
10. Breaking Benjamin – Ashes of Eden (04:53)
11. Breaking Benjamin – Defeated (03:25)
12. Breaking Benjamin – Dawn (01:52)

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Dark Before Dawn marks the first original music from Breaking Benjamin since the release of Dear Agony in 2009 and marks a new era for the acclaimed band as Burnley is joined by guitarists Jasen Rauch (Red) and Keith Wallen (Adelitas Way), bassist Aaron Bruch, and drummer Shaun Foist (Picture Me Broken).The fifth studio long-player and first outing from Breaking Benjamin to rely on the talents of a more or less completely new lineup (founder, frontman, and namesake Benjamin Burnley remains at the wheel), Dark Before Dawn offers up little in the way of innovation. That said, as thick, smartly produced, largely inoffensive blasts of generic hard rock go, you could do a lot worse, and longtime fans will appreciate the fact that Burnley and his new shipmates (drummer Shaun Foist [Picture Me Broken], bassist Aaron Bruch, former Red guitarist Jasen Rauch, and ex-Adelitas Way guitarist Keith Wallen) stay true to the band’s unwavering allegiance to all things late-’90s/early-2000s post-grunge/hard rock. In the six years since 2009’s Dear Agony, Burnley has endured issues of both the legal and health varieties, and much of the 12-track set is spent attempting to process that period of personal upheaval, with standout cuts like the slow-burn single “Failure,” the anthemic “Defeated,” and the soaring “Close to Heaven” and “Angels Fall” leading the charge. Subtlety has never been Breaking Benjamin’s strong suit (the album is bookended by a pair of perfunctory mood pieces titled “Dark” and “Dawn”), but what they lack in nuance they more than make up for in sheer melodic power. Somewhere between Burnley’s powerhouse voice and the triple guitar-induced wall of sonic discord in which that pained throat wails, must lie some sort of catharsis, both for the listener and the band, but it’s hard to conceal the fact that most of these songs are nearly interchangeable with the band’s older material.