At the time I was starting to get into the Gothic Doom scene. I had already visited the Symphonic Gothic scene a few years back, but had never really taken the time to check out its muich old "cousin" genre, Gothic Doom and its parent Death/Doom. It was around the time I started getting into Anathema's Alternative 4 that I started getting into DayLight Dies.
I had heard via Pandora by setting the band to Opeth. Getting more into the Doom scene simply peaked more curiousity and I found I really enjoyed their complex yet simple sound. I can hear everything from Alice in Chains to Rush to Opeth in some of their melodies, and yet they really don't sound like any band out there. They have elements of melodic death and death doom, yet I find neither genre really fits their style. To list them simply as gothic doom is just too limiting, as the often "melacholy" mood of the music goes outside of that genre, sometimes ALMOST sounding upbeat but never quite actually becoming upbeat. The music is like gray skies that have clouds that sometimes get lighter and sometimes darker, but they never become sunny or form a tornado. Like Opeth, Daylight Dies though distinictly melodic "Doom" is in a category of its own.
