{{Short description|British black metal band}} {{Infobox musical artist | background = group_or_band | name = Dawn Ray'd | alias = | origin = Liverpool, England | genre = Black metal | years_active = {{Start date|2015}}–2023 | label = Prosthetic Records | current_members = Simon Barr<br />Matthew Broadley<br />Fabian Devlin | past_members = | website = {{URL|http://dawnrayd.bandcamp.com/}} }}
'''Dawn Ray'd''' were a British black metal band.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.revolvermag.com/music/meet-dawn-rayd-expanding-black-metal-anarchist-politics-and-violin|title=Meet Dawn Ray'd: Expanding Black Metal With Anarchist Politics and Violin|date=December 7, 2017|website=Revolver}}</ref>
== History == In 2008, singer and violinist Simon Barr and guitarist Fabian Devlin formed a band named ''We Came Out Like Tigers'' in Liverpool. In the following years, drummer Matthew Broadley would join them, leading to the creation of a black metal band, named ''Dawn Ray'd''. The group was named after a line in Voltairine de Cleyre's 1898 poem Santa Agueda about the assassination of Antonio Cánovas del Castillo.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/black-metal-punks-meet-the-fascism-fighting-dawn-rayd|title=Black metal punks? Meet the fascism-fighting Dawn Ray'd|first=Kim|last=Kelly|date=February 17, 2020|website=loudersound}}</ref> The group was openly anarchist and anti-fascist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.redpepper.org.uk/playing-on-the-dark-side-an-interview-with-dawn-rayd/|title=Playing on the dark side: An interview with Dawn Ray'd|website=Redpepper.org.uk|access-date=5 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kerrang.com/features/the-climate-crisis-needs-direct-action/|title=The Climate Crisis Needs Direct Action|website=Kerrang.com|date=3 January 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.terrorizer.com/news/features-2/dawn-rayd/ |title=Dawn Ray'd: "To be anti-fascist and to be into metal go hand in hand" - Terrorizer |access-date=2021-11-02 |archive-date=2020-10-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023234908/https://www.terrorizer.com/news/features-2/dawn-rayd/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The band released their first EP, ''A Thorn, a Blight'', in 2015, followed by their first album, ''The Unlawful Assembly'', in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cory |first=Ian |date=October 27, 2017 |title=Doing the Right Thing: Dawn Ray'd Discusses "The Unlawful Assembly" |url=https://www.invisibleoranges.com/interview-dawn-rayd/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028144437/https://www.invisibleoranges.com/interview-dawn-rayd/ |archive-date=October 28, 2017 |access-date=February 7, 2023 |website=Invisible Oranges}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://metalinjection.net/reviews/dawn-rayd-the-unlawful-assembly|title=Album Review: DAWN RAY'D The Unlawful Assembly|first=Tyler|last=Hersko|date=November 21, 2017|website=Metalinjection.net}}</ref> In 2017, the group additionally signed with record label Prosthetic Records.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bravewords.com/news/dawn-rayd-ink-deal-with-prosthetic-records-the-unlawful-assembly-album-due-in-november|title=DAWN RAY'D Ink Deal With Prosthetic Records; The Unlawful Assembly Album Due In November|website=Bravewords.com}}</ref>
In 2019, the group released their second album, ''Behold Sedition Plainsong''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://distortedsoundmag.com/album-review-behold-sedition-plainsong-dawn-rayd/|title=ALBUM REVIEW: Behold Sedition Plainsong - Dawn Ray'd|website=Distortedsoundmag.com|date=October 22, 2019}}</ref> Kerrang! reviewed the album at 4/5 stars, stating that the band "simultaneously exemplify and challenge black metal rebellion here."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kerrang.com/reviews/album-review-dawn-rayd-behold-sedition-plainsong/|title=Album Review: Dawn Ray'd – Behold Sedition Plainsong|website=Kerrang.com|date=24 October 2019 }}</ref>
In September 2023, the band announced they had broken up.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Greg Kennelty|url=https://metalinjection.net/news/breakups/dawn-rayd-breaks-up-cancels-all-shows|title=DAWN RAY'D Breaks Up, Cancels All Shows|website=Metal Injection|access-date=September 15, 2023|date=September 15, 2023}}</ref>
== Discography == '''Studio albums''' *''The Unlawful Assembly'' (2017) *''Behold Sedition Plainsong'' (2019) *''To Know the Light'' (2023)
'''EPs''' *''A Thorn, a Blight'' (2015) *''Wild Fire'' (2021)
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Category:British black metal musical groups Category:Rock music groups from Liverpool Category:British political music groups Category:Musical groups established in 2015 Category:Musical groups disestablished in 2023 Category:British anti-fascists Category:Prosthetic Records artists