Promos went out a week ago, so now we're starting to see a few reviews trickle in. Besides the previous Stereokiller review, we just received this one from Terrorizer. 8/10.
DAYLIGHT DIES
Dismantling Devotion
CANDLELIGHT
According to the North Carolina tourist board, the southern state is home to many unique and special areas of outdoor splendour where nature comes alive to rejuvenate and replenish our spirit. Perhaps someone should tell Daylight Dies, cos by the sound of this sophomore full length, the NC based quintet spend their time locked in dark basements committed to a strict diet of gloom. Not that the end result is one youd want to change, mind you. Though profoundly miserable of spirit and slower burning than a badly rolled smoke, Dismantling Devotion is an accomplished and thoroughly evocative work of soaring, timeless metal; each devastatingly downbeat moment loaded with more emotion than a hundred of todays so-called emo bands could ever hope to muster. In a similar ballpark to doom greats Opeth and My Dying Bride, Daylight Dies succeed in being heavy on a vast scale, but without ever hitting the proverbial killswitch; preferring an avenue of attack that gradually immerses the listener into cold, but full bodied depths, thus allowing the albums mood of despair and monumental weight to creep and settle into the conscience as opposed to assaulting the cerebrum with brutality point blank. Dismantling Devotion overspills with intelligent intensity, an epic journey as thoughtful and compellingly musical as it is bleak and vengeful. Essential.
[8] LEANDER GLOVERSMITH
DAYLIGHT DIES
Dismantling Devotion
CANDLELIGHT
According to the North Carolina tourist board, the southern state is home to many unique and special areas of outdoor splendour where nature comes alive to rejuvenate and replenish our spirit. Perhaps someone should tell Daylight Dies, cos by the sound of this sophomore full length, the NC based quintet spend their time locked in dark basements committed to a strict diet of gloom. Not that the end result is one youd want to change, mind you. Though profoundly miserable of spirit and slower burning than a badly rolled smoke, Dismantling Devotion is an accomplished and thoroughly evocative work of soaring, timeless metal; each devastatingly downbeat moment loaded with more emotion than a hundred of todays so-called emo bands could ever hope to muster. In a similar ballpark to doom greats Opeth and My Dying Bride, Daylight Dies succeed in being heavy on a vast scale, but without ever hitting the proverbial killswitch; preferring an avenue of attack that gradually immerses the listener into cold, but full bodied depths, thus allowing the albums mood of despair and monumental weight to creep and settle into the conscience as opposed to assaulting the cerebrum with brutality point blank. Dismantling Devotion overspills with intelligent intensity, an epic journey as thoughtful and compellingly musical as it is bleak and vengeful. Essential.
[8] LEANDER GLOVERSMITH
