Daylight Dies – A Frail Becoming Review
How can you not love melodic doom-death. It has melody, doom AND death! What could be better? Coming hot on the heels of the latest from Hooded Menace , we get more melodic, doomy and downcast music from Daylight Dies . A Frail Becoming is the fourth album full of gloom and despair from these North Carolina masters of melancholy. Unlike the doom-death acts moving in the direction of funeral dirge, Daylight Dies has always kept things more melodic, accessible and light (in the context of depressive doom-death, anyway). Throughout their career, elements of October Tide , Katatonia and Insomnium found their way into the mix. All can still be found on A Frail Becoming , but the sound here is much more clearly a mix of Ghost Brigade and Rapture , with a healthy dose of post-rock style and sensibility. Never a crushingly heavy band, Daylight Dies often...