Dawn of Ashes was an American extreme metal/industrial band based out of Los Angeles, California founded in 2001. The bands current modus operandi is horror based lyrical and visual themes presented through industrial and melodic black metal structures. Dawn of Ashes has had an interesting evolution which strongly resembles that of contemporary Norwegian music act Mortiis, with three distinct phases of the band. Both acts have progressed from a strictly electronic to metal/electronic based musical form.
The name Dawn of Ashes is an allegorical metaphor meaning "beginning of the end".