Daylight Dies-Lost to the living

Candlelight
2008

Melodic/death-doom outfit Daylight Dies seem to know a great deal about structure and pace, but unfortunately not so much about conveying emotions. The technical skills of the players are solid in a rather matter of fact style that only carries the material so far. The job on conveying any real excitement or aggression seems to have placed primarily on the skills which quite honestly are just fair and very standard. There are few tracks where the pace is altered some and the vocals are a bit more clean, but not really enough to pull me in. These guys also get doom thrown in as a label, but as a fan of doom the music here just feels like semi-progressive metal slowed down. Doom is more than just slowing down the tempo, it’s about a feeling and a certain tone. I don’t find a whole lot of that present on this recording. This is a style of music that should be getting pumped up and enthused yet the only action I felt like taking was to skip to the next song. Perhaps a little above average, but it houses far more filler than substance for my liking.