Dawn Of Ashes drop ‘Reinfecting The Scars’ remix EP
Dawn Of Ashes (Photo by Kristof Bathory)
Dawn Of Ashes, the Los Angeles-formed industrial metal and aggrotech band now based in Denmark, have released the new remix EP “Reinfecting The Scars” via Metropolis Records. The digital-only EP revisits three tracks from their 2025 album “Infecting The Scars”.
The release follows the full-length “Infecting The Scars”, issued on 6 June 2025 on Metropolis as the latest chapter in the band’s scar-themed album cycle.
Florida-based dark electronic act God Module contributes the first version of “Faith Desecration”, with a second remix by Los Angeles industrial/EBM project Frontal Boundary. Mexican producer DJ C-LEKKTOR delivers a new take on “Throne Of Misanthropy”, alongside a dark drum & bass-driven version by LA artist Dimensional Dryft. The EP closes with a rework of “Hypertensive Crisis” by Bogota-based aggrotech/black metal outfit Alien:Nation.
The release of “Reinfecting The Scars” follows Dawn Of Ashes’ headline set on the second and final night of Helsinki Industrial Festival 2025, held on 8 November in Helsinki, Finland.
In early 2026, the band will return to North America for the “In The Acts Of Destruction” West Coast tour. The run currently includes eleven shows, beginning in Los Angeles on 24 January 2026 and routing through venues across the US West Coast.
About Dawn Of Ashes
Dawn Of Ashes is an American industrial metal band formed in Los Angeles in 2000 by vocalist and composer Kristof Bathory. The project began as a dark electronic/terror EBM act, using heavy sampling from horror films and aggressive programming, before expanding into industrial metal, black metal and extreme industrial hybrid forms.
The early demo “Sacred Fever” and debut album “In The Acts Of Violence” established the band on the European dark electro circuit and led to a deal with German label NoiTekk, with US distribution via COP International and Russian distribution via Gravitator Records.
In 2007, Dawn Of Ashes issued “The Crypt Injection”, followed by the more guitar-driven “Genocide Chapters” in 2010 on Metal Blade Records as the group moved toward a blackened industrial and extreme metal sound.
The 2010s saw further stylistic shifts and label changes. After the album “Anathema” and subsequent releases, the band released “Theophany” in 2016. Dawn Of Ashes then returned to a dark-electro-leaning direction with “The Crypt Injection II (Non Serviam)” in 2019.
In 2020, the band released “The Antinomian” on Artoffact Records.
The “Scars” trilogy marks the most recent phase. “Scars Of The Broken” appeared in 2022, followed by “Reopening The Scars” in April 2024 and “Infecting The Scars” in 2025, all released through Metropolis Records.
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