Golden Dawn

Golden Dawn are an Austrian black metal band whose career took place in two distinct phases. The first saw founding vocalist and keyboardist Stefan Traunm++ller working primarily alone throughout the early '90s, recording demos and one-off songs for independent extreme metal compilations, before finally hooking up with local session musicians to record 1996's The Art of Dreaming LP. Boasting a compellingly idiosyncratic mix of raw black metal thrashing fury and atmospheric, so-called avant-garde synthesizer-based passages, the record garnered much praise from the underground p...