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ranked the album in their list of 2010's top 10 best albums. A few days after the great feedback for the album, between 10 and 12 January 2011, the band's training facility was broken into and almost all of their equipment was stolen. Many valuable items were taken, including the
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Soon afterwards, they made an announcement of new drummer Juuso
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the band started to experiment with new elements and sounds for their music. They composed new material and recorded new demos, but they did not receive a deadline from their record label. The band eventually decided to record the album themselves, with the help of familiar sound technicians. The
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took place at Tico-Tico studios in Autumn 1999. The album had a better sound quality than their previous albums as well as more refined production than they had previously added to the dark metal genre. The album was released through the avant-garde music sub-label
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The band's sound mixes synthesizer and guitars with a blend of clean vocals along with additional growling and screaming vocals. The band's lyrics are often known as poetic, expressing the darker aspects of solitude, feelings of loss and the fears and pains of life. Their debut album
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One tip-off led to a significant amount of the equipment being found several weeks later, on 27 January 2011. Not many details could be revealed, for the thieves that stole the goods were still missing.
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concept of Throes of Dawn is often poetic, reflecting the deeper and darker aspects of the human psyche; solitude, feelings of loss, and the fears and pains of existence.
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