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.

Progress continues to be brisk on the recording front, as clean guitars and keys have been completed. Vocal recording is now underway.

“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.

“The trademark DD sound is alive and well in this new material,” relays Gambling. “Egan’s songs and riffs blend with mine, while exploring new colors and rhythms. A few friends that have heard the new material confirm that it is a seamless addition to our sound. There are more clean vocals than before but Nathan’s [Ellis] death vocals are still the dominant style. In addition to Egan’s contributions, guitarist Charley Shackelford has laid down some killer solos on a few songs.”

At the present time, the album is without a name, with drummer Jesse Haff confirming only “Hold on to Nothing” as a song title (“Our working song titles are obscene and in jokes, so I won’t dare to go there,” affirmed the drummer). What the band can reveal however, is that the new album won’t lack in heaviness and various twists and turns. “Most would find the new album more dynamic, quite aggressive at times, with our traditional sound in new rhythmic and textural contexts,” said Gambling. “We’ve tuned slightly lower than on previous albums, creating some of our heaviest and most dramatic moments to date. There are very delicate moments as well. Charley and I have really gone for the throat with some of the guitar solos. Overall, we’ve expanded our sound again. I believe this is our most exciting album to date.”

Continue reading the interview at Blistering.com.

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:

Here’s a rough audience filmed video of the song A Dream Resigned from Madrid is the Dark in Madrid, Spain.

Happy New Year!

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.

On an unrelated note — users of Google+ should circle the newly created Daylight Dies Google+ page.

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.

Up next: Layers upon layers of guitars construct the wall of sound. More photos and details as they emerge.

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)