Daylight Dies – “Dismantling Devotion”
The focus of these eight compositions, lasting more than 50 minutes in total, is general somberness. These requiems, to their advantage, are not so slow, but run at a steady, middle course highlighting the band’s vision of melancholy and despondency shrouded in dark melodies. The tracks are carried by pleasantly gray, easy to recall notes; the drumming keeps active company to the guitar; the vocals, despite being “growled,” though not wrathfully, are appropriate and fit the funereal aesthetic (occasional clean singing appears). This is probably the form of deathly doom with the widest appeal due to mid-paced and still gloomily song-orientation.