DAYLIGHT DIES care for high-class Doom/Death metal for over a decade, including the genre-typical heavy mood, but integrating a nice portion of aggressiveness and hymnal approaches in addition to collect many brownie points.

A Frail Becoming also holds melodic and dusky sounds, but there’s no continuous depressive mood!
DAYLIGHT DIES know to alternate. As example, I take the wonderful dynamic piece Sunset, which causes a great stir with egregious melody arcs, felicitous vocal arrangements (growls and clear voice) and changes in speed. Sometimes, like in case of Dreams Of Breathing, the musicians set on you with harsh vocals and mighty pounding rhythms after a very calm beginning; then again, the band integrates a borne, nearly ruminant passage to exhaust the potential of contrasts totally. Catchy refrains cannot be found, and that’s why it is hard to get into the quite opulent songs immediately. This is music for enjoyers, musical slow food so to say – pure melancholy avoiding devastating desperation. The clear voice allows some debauch, but is not weepy; the chords sound in epic manner, but not at all sheeted or exorbitant.
During the unloading instrumental part of A Final Vestige, the band speeds up till the end to crush the suspense abruptly. A while later, the dreamy intro of Ghosting unfolds a reduced, overwhelming charm. This composition augments continuously to present contained sounds at the end.
After an interspersed, atmospheric interlude called Water’s Edge, the Doom addicts combine melancholic heaviness, filigree arrangements and subliminal pounding aggression to a very nice, but a way long-winded tailpiece entitled An Heir To Emptiness.

At last, this dynamic undulation is the reason for the zest of this quite typical, but wonderfully shaped Doom/Death album. Every now and then, the instrumental parts reach a captivating level of intensity and contribute to the positive effect as well as many calm sequences.