Dark Before Dawn is the fifth studio album by American rock band Breaking Benjamin, released on June 23, 2015, by Hollywood Records. It is the group's first studio album following the band's hiatus lasting from early 2010 to late 2014, and the first album to feature an entirely different lineup alongside founder and frontman Benjamin Burnley. Dark Before Dawn. Breaking Benjamin 12 tracks Released in 2015 Rock. Dark; Failure; Angels Fall; Listen full album. Breaking Benjamin 11 tracks Released in 2009 Rock. Fade Away; I Will Not Bow; Crawl; Listen full album. We Are Not Alone. Breaking Benjamin 11 tracks Released in 2004 Rock. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Breaking Benjamin – Dark Before Dawn (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96kHz | Time – 42:48 minutes | 1,0 GB | Genre: Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | @ Hollywood Records
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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.
Tracklist:
01 – Dark
02 – Failure
03 – Angels Fall
04 – Breaking the Silence
05 – Hollow
06 – Close to Heaven
07 – Bury Me Alive
08 – Never Again
09 – The Great Divide
10 – Ashes of Eden
11 – Defeated
12 – Dawn
Notes: Tracks 1 and 2 are 44.1khz/24bit sources mastered to 96khz/24bit
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Breaking Benjamin fans rejoiced on Tuesday (June 23rd) when the band’s latest CD ‘Dark Before Dawn’ dropped (you could’ve actually gotten it a week earlier through iTunes 1st Play). It is BB’s first studio release since 2009 when they released ‘Dear Agony’ which hit the number one spot on both the Top Hard Rock and Top Modern Rock/Alternative Rock charts as well as number two on the overall Top Rock Album list. For good measure it topped out at #4 on the Billboard 200.
Benjamin Burnley lead vocals and guitar for Breaking Benjamin
Following the success of ‘Dear Agony’ things began to fall apart for the band including health issues for front man, Benjamin Burnley.
There was also a legal dispute between Burnley and bandmates Aaron Fink and Mark Klepaski that ran until 2013 before finally being settled. The issue arose over a greatest hits CD that was actually released in 2011 entitled Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamin.
Burnley eventually came away with the rights to the Breaking Benjamin name but now had to replace all three members of the band because drummer Chad Szeiliga parted shortly after the settlement due to that proverbial cover-all, creative differences.
With his easily recognizable voice and the successful past of the band, it didn’t take long for the new version to start to come together. Burnley recruited former Red guitarist, Jasen Rauch, who he had collaborated with on the songs ‘Without You’ and ‘Hopeless’ for the “Dear Agony’ release along with Aaron Bruch, former bassist from Adelita’s Way. Add to the mix Keith Wallen (rhythm guitar) and drummer, Shaun Foist, and Breaking Benjamin was reborn as a five piece ensemble in August of 2014.
The new quintet hit the studios and put together what became Dawn Before Dark and they spun the first single, ‘Failure’, in March of 2015. They put together a small unplugged tour and a four venue junket during the winter of 2014 to support the CD.
Everything worked out perfectly for the group with ‘Failure’ quickly moving up the charts, eventually becoming the namesake’s third #1 single joining ‘Breath’ (Phobia) and ‘I will Not Bow’. Riding that momentum the CD went straight to the top after the pre-order date was announced, doing so within an hour.
Jasen Rauch, guitarist for Breaking Benjamin
Dark Breaking Benjamin Lyrics
‘Failure’ caught my attention right away being a huge Breaking Benjamin fan myself, with that distinctive Burnley sound and an intro that couldn’t be confused for anyone else’s. It was everything that I remember the band to be. In fact that BB sound is the reason that I have spent part of my vacation in Columbus during the third week of May over the past nine years.
I was looking for tickets to see them back in 2007 and the closest place I could find was in Columbus and as it turned out it was this little one-day festival that was being held at Columbus Crew Stadium. It just so happened that Breaking Benjamin made history that day in becoming the very first band to take the stage at what has become the nation’s top rock festival called Rock On The Range.I could go on for days, even weeks what ROTR has meant to me but we’ll save that for another day. Instead I’ll get back to ‘Dark Before Dawn’. The first single is the second track on the CD, following a nice two minute introduction entitled ‘Dark’ that is not only a great way to start the CD but could double extremely well as a prelude to a live performance.
With ‘Failure’ pulling the listener in, ‘Angel’s Fall’ captivates them with Burnley’s smooth tenor like voice giving hope with a chorus that ends with ‘I’ll carry you and we will live forever’.
Bruch makes his presence known on the next track with his deep and powerful death screams in “Breaking the Silence’. Burnley and Bruch combined perfectly during the chorus mixing the screams with the melodic overtones that Burnley pulls off perfectly.
‘Hollow’ and ‘Close to Heaven’ both have that early Breaking Benjamin feel and create a nice bridge to Bruch’s screaming expertise which is once again a highlight in the heavy-hitter ‘Bury Me Alive’.
Once again the next two tracks ‘Never Again’ and The Great Divide’ are undeniably old school Breaking Benjamin and provide a fantastic path to the lighter listening of ‘Ashes of Eden’ which is delightfully filled with the pleasant cello playing of Dave Eggar and Katie Kresek on the violin.
‘Defeated’ provides the bow to this nice little gift delivered from the new Breaking Benjamin which is tied up nicely by the closing ‘Dark’ which brings this 12 track gem to a close like a nice hard-rocking, jaw-dropping, bed-time story.
I’m sure the big boys who put out the major CD reviews will say it’s nice but its sounds too much like the old Breaking Benjamin. And I am going to have to agree with them, but I also believe that is a good thing. Welcome back Breaking Benjamin, it’s been too long.
Breaking Benjamin during 2015 Rock On The Range
I’ll give it an 8 on a scale of 1-10, meaning it’ll be in my CD player for a while. It has that one thing I’m always looking for in any fresh release, playing power that doesn’t have to have every other song skipped. I’m not saying you need to drop everything right now and run out and get it, but it’s not a bad idea.
Until next time, this is Big L saying ‘keep them horns up and rock on’!! m/ m/