Crack ov Dawn
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Crack ov Dawn is a French glam metal
Glam metal
Glam metal is a subgenre of hard rock and heavy metal that arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, particularly on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip music scene...

 band founded in 2002. Crack ov Dawn split up in 2007.

History

The band was founded in January 2002 in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, by guitarist Sexy Sadie and vocalist Vinnie Valentine. Soon after, they joined up with vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Britney Beach. The next six months were spent rehearsing and writing material for the new band.

In Summer of 2003, Vinnie and Britney met Mallaury Murder after being thrown out of a Parisian club and recruited him as bassist. Xander Xanax, an old friend of Mallaury Murder, took the position of drummer, soon joined by Spicy Sky on guitars. The band soon signed with Equilibre Music, and released their debut album, "Dawn Addict" in 2004.

Songwriters Sexy Sadie and Britney Beach like to describe the bands music as 'Shock-Pop', a style which combines electronic beats, heavy metal riffs and pop sounds with Gothic Glam and '70 Punk/Shock-Rock.

Vinnie Valentine left the band in 2005, and the rest of the band continued without him, releasing "White Line" in June 2006.

Ex-vocalist Vinnie Valentine (aka Hreidmarr) has also sung for the black metal band Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia Nervosa (band)
Anorexia Nervosa is a French symphonic black metal band that started as an industrial metal act from Limoges, France. The band was formed in 1995 and was active for ten years thereafter...

 and is currently in the industrial metal band The CNK
The Cosa Nostra Klub
The Cosa Nostra Klub is a French black metal/industrial metal band, founded in Clermont-Ferrand, in 1996 by Mr Hreidmarr and Mr Heinrich Von B...

.

Videography

The music video "From My Shades" of the album "White Line" was shot in 2006 by Matador Films and directed by Franck Védrines.

External links

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