Rigel Walsh's band Dawn of Azazel is routinely cited as one of the groups that re-energised the extreme metal scene in New Zealand in the early 2000s.
Dawn of Azazel has toured around the world, and the band's debut, 2004's Law of the Strong, is regarded as a seminal work in New Zealand's extreme metal canon.
Dawn of Azazel spent some of 2014 at Mana Recording Studios in Tampa, Florida, working on a fourth full-length album.
