Since the burial of BTD in 2013 a lot has happened and during the years that slowly the idea of bringing the band back from the dead started to grow to a firm decision. Pandemic that provided 2 years of empty calendar was the biggest sole reason to release vinyl version from "Deadlight" album (2006) and writing a brand new song was the best that happened during 2020 musically to the core members of BTD and as a cherry on top of a cake the album opened #1 in Finnish album chart. The past 9 years BTD Spotify has grown with tens of thousands of followers and hundred thousands of monthly plays with no promotion, no label working for, no social media marketing or constant posting. Did the music find the people or people found the music...we don't know but after being dead for almost a decade BTD is stronger and bigger than ever. Voice of Finland 2022 brought so far the biggest change into BTD line-up when the finalist Paavo Laapotti took over all vocalist duties in the band. His majestic version of "Deadsong" made a huge impact to BTD members and specially to the song written Tuomas who immediately started planning a project with Paavo. After the first song for Paavo was ready and mixed the first idea that came into Tuomas head was: "This sounds like BTD but upgraded version". "Downhearted" is the first single from what we like to call Before The Dawn 4.0 and we are already getting ready to release our new album scheduled to come out in early summer 2023.
