Lehighton rock band Another Day Dawns has scored a big break touring alongside platinum-plus-selling rockers Breaking Benjamin and Bush.

The 15-date U.S. trek, which started in late April and wraps May 23, marks the first full-fledged arena tour for Another Day Dawns, aka ADD. Regionally, the tour hits Wilkes-Barre Township’s Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza on Thursday.

“We’re good friends with some guys from Breaking Benjamin,” said Dakota Sean, ADD lead singer. We know (Bush’s) Gavin Rossdale. He was a judge when we did a Battle of the Bands in Los Angeles.

“Fast-forward five years, we’re headlining with them,” he continued. “It’s huge to put us out in front of that many people. You gotta tour beyond Scranton and Lehighton, and hope that people like it just as much.”

Previously, ADD toured with Buckcherry for a few weeks, and enjoyed local/regional opening slots for acts such as Fuel, Sammy Hagar, Godsmack and Puddle of Mudd. Following the current tour, ADD will play four dates with bands Filter and Uncured.

Born in Buffalo, New York, Sean moved to the Tamaqua area as a toddler. A 2014 Tamaqua Area High School graduate, he credits his musician father with piquing his musical interest.

“Seeing him get ready for shows intrigued me, playing to hundreds of people, seeing how he was with fans,” he said. “I was 10 to 11. I knew then and there I wanted to play music.”

Sean wanted to sing, thus he participated in annual school talent shows. “That was my little way of getting in there, to see if I liked it or not.”

During a gig with his dad at Damon’s Grill & Sports Bar in Hazleton, Sean met guitarist Tyler Ritter and drummer Nick McGeehan. The Lehighton musicians formed ADD in 2010.

“They came over, said they were looking for a singer,” recalled Sean, then 14 or 15. “That intrigued me. Dad said it would be a good idea to jam with people around my age.”

Originally, ADD stood for Attention Deficit Disorder. However, many acts outside the area had that name, leading the band to change its moniker. Furthermore, “we felt it was childish once we grew of age,” said Sean, who currently resides in King of Prussia.

In time, ADD - whose current lineup also includes Tamaqua-area bassist Jerome Betz - evolved from a classic-rock cover band to a full-on original act.

“We hit the point at 16, 17, where we wanted people singing and dancing to our own music,” Sean said. “After a four-hour set, we would throw in one or two originals. People started liking the originals more than the covers. We knew we had something special.”

When writing, “the guys always have the music down first,” Sean said. “That’s about 90% of it. Almost instantly, I will have an idea of what the song should sound like.”

Sean, who alternates between heavy-metal growls/screams and a softer vocal approach, likes “doing it 50-50. I like sticking to my roots; ’90s grunge, Nirvana stuff. I don’t wanna make a whole song scream. That would easily divide up the fans.”

To date, ADD has released two EPs. “A Different Life,” out in 2019, features the single “Psycho,” while 2020’s “Stranger” includes the singles “Taste of Heaven,” one of two collaborations with songwriter Desmond Child, and “Forget Me Not.”

With the first EP, “we were still kids, writing about my teen-angsty I-wanna-get-out, wanna-disobey stuff. As we’re getting older, we’re writing about everyday life, more relationship stuff, that connects with people on a more personal level.”

In 2022, ADD signed to Century Media Records. A Sony Music Entertainment-owned label, Century Media’s heavy-on-heavy-metal roster also includes, among others, Dream Theater, Queensrÿche and Buckcherry.

“Bitter,” the lead single from ADD’s upcoming full-length debut album, has cracked the top 40 on Mediabase’s Active Rock airplay chart. Sean co-wrote the track, which touches on his relationship with his parents.

The unnamed album, set to include 2021 single “Look at You,” may arrive in late summer, though “it depends on how well these next few singles do,” Sean said. “We’re gonna be dropping another one after the Filter run.”

Among ADD’s career highlights, the band has played festivals such as Blue Ridge Rock in Virginia, Aftershock in California and Louder Than Life in Kentucky. The group returns to the latter in September.

“You see these on YouTube, in front of 10,000 to 20,000 people,” Sean said. “A small band from Tamaqua/Lehighton, getting people to mosh/move. It feels like a dream out there.”

In addition, touring with Wilkes-Barre’s Breaking Benjamin - Sean’s first concert, back in 2009 - marks another ADD highlight.

“We‘re starting to cross some things off our list,” said Sean, adding that fans’ ages range from early teens to 50s. “We want to tour with household names and hear people singing our music back to us.”