Daylight Dies was formed in 1996 in North Carolina with influences such as Katatonia and My Dying Bride. The group taped a demo called The Long Forgotten in 1999 and issued an EP called Idle the year after on Tribunal Records. This led to a contract with Relapse and toured with Lacuna Coil and Katatonia. The band’s 2006 album was issued in March through Candlelight and was booked to open for Emperor later in the year. In 2008, the group was next picked to support Candlemass on the Swedes first tour of North America in 17 years.

DAYLIGHT DIES – DISMANTLING DEVOTION – CANDLELIGHT  
The alliterative Daylight Dies’ Dismantling Devotion is an equally recurrent doom metal band with strong hints of early My Dying Bride, Paramaecium, early Anathema, Katatonia and Mindrot. The band is being called death/doom in some circles, probably owing to the growling vocals of Nathan Ellis, except the band’s allegiance to the mantra of death, dying and praise thereof is highly questionable and therefore moot. Good news is two-fold here. Firstly, the band neither employs stupidity like K&F (keyboards and female vocals) nor does it ever sound contrived or faddish. Instead, the band maintains its slow to mid-paced sound, riffing, comfortably explosive doom machine, while the aforementioned Ellis rarely allows in the odd clean vocals – namely on songs like A Life Less Lived (more alliteration), Solitary Refinement or Strive to See. The sound is strong and crisp and the attitude surprisingly unpretentious. Melancholy, mood, melody and more! – Ali “The Metallian”