DAYLIGHT DIES: DARK MUSIC FOR DARKER DAYS
Monday, September 8th, 2008 at 2:58pm by Vince Neilstein
We love Daylight Dies here at the MS Mansion and apparently Cosmo Lee of Invisible Oranges (and several other fine publications) does too:
I put on Lost to the Living (Candlelight, 2008) as Hurricane Hanna hit New York. As rain curtained my windows, my room darkened. It wasn’t just the sky. My thoughts went south to North Carolina, home of Daylight Dies, and where Hanna had just touched down. Few bands change the color of a room so effectively. Outside of metal: Joy Division and The Cure (for me, Disintegration (incidentally, this record was mixed at Fascination Street Studios)). In metal, Daylight Dies’ colleagues: Katatonia, Sentenced, Swallow the Sun, Insomnium. These are soundtracks for rainy days – blankets, hot tea, and metal.
If it’s raining wherever you’re reading this from, crank it up and curl up in front of a fire (or smoke a bowl). If it’s not, you can just pretend.
Daylight Dies – “A Subtle Violence”
-VN
Agalloch still wins the rainy metal band award for me.
Though Daylight Dies and Katatonia are pretty damn good at it as well.
Insomnium does it for me on a rainy day. Heck, the first track on their latest _Above the Weeping World_ starts off with the sound of rain. Insomnium rules… I’m going to go and listen to them now.
Daylight Dies stands on their own for me. So glad to see kudos here.