DAYLIGHT DIES – A FRAIL BECOMING · April 10th, 2012
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We’re pleased to finally announce the fourth studio Daylight Dies album will be titled A Frail Becoming. The album is currently being mixed in Sweden by the fantastic Jens Bogren (who was also responsible for mixing Dismantling Devotion and Lost to the Living).
Song titles, in no particular order:
- The Pale Approach
- Dreaming of Breathing
- Ghosting
- Infidel
- Sunset
- Hold on to Nothing
- An Heir to Emptiness
- A Final Vestige
We’ve crossed mountains both personally and creatively in the path of creating A Frail Becoming, and we’re exceptionally proud of the result. It is by far the most mature and diverse collection of music we’ve created.
We’ll have another update once the mixing is complete and the album artwork is completed.
Recording is finally completed, mixing begins next · March 16th, 2012
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With Nathan wrapping up his vocal sessions this week, the recording phase of our new album is finally completed! The album will now be in the hands of Jens Bogren of Fascination Street Studios, where mixing will commence on April 1st. The album title, song titles and future status updates will be posted before too long.
Jens Bogren to mix new album starting April 1st · February 11th, 2012
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We’re proud to announce that the fourth full-length Daylight Dies album will be mixed by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden. Mixing will begin on April 1st. Jens was also responsible for mixing Lost to the Living and Dismantling Devotion and we couldn’t imagine the new album being in more capable hands.
Progress continues to be brisk on the recording front, as clean guitars and keys have been completed. Vocal recording is now underway.
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Interview with Blistering.com on the upcoming album · January 13th, 2012
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David E. Gehlke from Blistering.com recently interviewed us about the upcoming album:
“We are finishing out a few solos, cleans, keys and bass, and are polishing lyrics and vocals before we start tracking those. This is the craziest time in tracking because four guys are working on ten different things to really make the album come together. It’s a cool period because things really come together, but it’s very busy.”
And so begins Daylight Dies bassist Egan O’Rouke when describing progress on the band’s forthcoming fourth studio album, due sometime in the middle of 2012 via Candlelight Records. Once the rightful North American torchbearers to the early Katatonia/Anathema sound, Daylight Dies have evolved into one of metal’s most despondent and captivtating entities. If indications are true, the follow-up to 2008’s stellar Lost to the Living promises to be just as foreboding, and possibly more varied thanks to the increased involvement from O’Rouke, who assumed writing duties with guitarist Barre Gambling.
Another year passes away · December 31st, 2011
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2011 has been a year of writing new music, recording in the studio and having an incredible time performing in Italy, Portugal and Spain. On the new album front, we’ve now completed guitar leads, rhythms, drums and bass guitar and clean guitar are halfway done. We’ll wrap everything up in early 2012 and hopefully have a clearer idea for a release date then. Our goal is the first half of 2012. We are thrilled with how everything is sounding so far.
We performed three shows in Europe in December. We want to thank Jose and Adrian for all the hard work of making it happen, and all the fantastic audiences. We had an amazing time.
Here’s a few photos from the Bracara Extreme Festival in Braga, Portugal:
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Here’s a rough audience filmed video of the song A Dream Resigned from Madrid is the Dark in Madrid, Spain.
Happy New Year!
Daylight Dies invades Europe · November 29th, 2011
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We’ll be back in Europe next week for the first time since 2003. While this isn’t a full-fledged tour, we’re proud to be part of two festivals with stunning line-ups, and one headline gig.
December 8 – Zoe Club, headline gig with guests Forgotten Tomb (Milan, Italy).
December 9 – Bracara Extreme Festival, with Enslaved, Mar de Grises and more (Braga, Portugal)
December 10 – Madrid is the Dark III, with Katatonia, October Tide, and more (Madrid, Spain)
Rehearsals for these shows began tonight in North Carolina. Those attending can expect numerous songs from Lost to the Living, Dismantling Devotion and No Reply. We are proud to be part of such fantastic shows as these are certainly not to be missed.
See you soon.
Video update from the studio · November 9th, 2011
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Barre is currently deep in recording numerous layers of rhythm guitar for our new album, but we put together this short video with a couple clips of our progress from the past several weeks. Check it out:
On an unrelated note — users of Google+ should circle the newly created Daylight Dies Google+ page.
Idle EP available as digital download with bonus track · October 26th, 2011
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Our 2000 debut EP Idle has been out of print for nearly 10 years, but it’s just been digitally released by Divebomb Records, and it includes the “In the Silence” demo as a bonus track.
You can grab a copy on the cheap from either iTunes or Amazon now.
Thanks for your support.
Here’s what Divebomb Records had to say:
We originally signed DAYLIGHT DIES in 2000 and immediately caused quite a stir within Tribunal Records’ fledging and predominantly metalcore fan base. DAYLIGHT DIES were the first true metal band on our roster and we couldn’t have been happier to welcome them aboard all those years ago. Now 11 years later, DAYLIGHT DIES has achieved worldwide success and released numerous critically acclaimed albums via Relapse Records and Candlelight Records. They have toured with Katatonia, Moonspell, Lacuna Coil and were main support for Emperor during two capacity crowd reunion shows in New York City. They have come a long way since the initial release of Idle in 2000 and we couldn’t be more proud of them.
Idle has been out of print for nearly 10 years and unavailable digitally. So we here at Divebomb are excited to present a newly remastered digital special edition of the EP with special bonus track available via all our normal digital re-sellers.
Studio update: Drums are done · October 21st, 2011
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We entered SoundPure studios to begin recording our fourth album on Saturday, and Jesse finished up all drums by Tuesday. Barre also knocked out several acoustic guitar segments. Everything is sounding solid and spirits are high as all the material we’ve worked hard on the past couple of years is finally recorded.
Up next: Layers upon layers of guitars construct the wall of sound. More photos and details as they emerge.
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Italian concert in December confirmed · October 5th, 2011
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We’re thrilled to announce that we will be performing for the first time in Italy on December 8th at Zoe Club in Milan. We’ll be performing with Forgotten Tomb, Tethra and Caronte. Don’t miss this one, as who knows when we’ll be back!
This concludes all gigs we’ll be playing in Europe this December.
The full list of European dates is as follows:
December 8 – Zoe Club, with Forgotten Tomb, Tethra and Caronte (Milan, Italy)
December 9 – Bracara Extreme Festival, with Enslaved, Mar de Grises and more (Braga, Portugal)
December 10 – Madrid is the Dark III, with Katatonia, October Tide, and more (Madrid, Spain)
