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Dark Before Dawn by Breaking Benjamin
Dark Before Dawn is an album by Breaking Benjamin, released in 2015. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 7 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Failure”, on 4 lists with a best position of #3.
Dark Before Dawn, Breaking Benjamin's fifth studio album, arrived on Hollywood Records on June 23, 2015, and it's a comeback in every sense. The band went dark in early 2010 while Benjamin Burnley fought recurring illness, and by the time the lights came back on the founder was the only one left from the old crew. Burnley wrote and produced the whole thing, most of it before his new recruits, Aaron Bruch on bass, Keith Wallen and Jasen Rauch on guitars and Shaun Foist on drums, had played a note together. Bruch and Wallen add backing vocals, the first time anyone besides Burnley sings on a Breaking Benjamin album.
Burnley said plainly he wasn't out to reinvent anything, and he didn't: crunching guitars, choruses that swell to the rafters and angst worn proudly on the sleeve, from the lead single "Failure" to "Angels Fall". A few critics grumbled about formula. The fans didn't, and it gave the band their first number one on the Billboard 200.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Dark Before Dawn on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Failure | 4 | #3 | – | 2015–2019 | |
| 2 | Angels Fall | 2 | #39 | – | 2015–2019 | |
| 3 | Defeated | 1 | #13 | – | 2016 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.