Band Review - Daylight Dies

Name: Daylight Dies
Label: Relapse
Genre: Death Metal, Ambient Metal

Daylight Dies, a brutally dismal and melancholy band from Raleigh, NC. Sounds like they hail from somewhere between Finland and Sweden, where there's more wolves than people, and the sun seldom gets above the tree line.

Dismantling Devotion is one of my favorite albums of all time. They're not the most technical band I've ever heard, but when it comes to this kind of music that is sometimes a good thing. I think when an album is overproduced it gets a synthetic feel to it. In some albums like this one, there is a sense of emotion in the music, more so than in perfect production.

Anyway - here is a recent bulletin announcement from them:

"We're pleased to announce that all songs for our third album have been written. This includes eight songs that add up to roughly 50 minutes in length. This is certainly our most varied and dynamic effort, with simultaneously our meanest and our most fragile songs to date. We're especially proud of this album, as it's certainly our best. As stated previously, the material is a mix of beautiful melancholic leads and harsh dissonant rhythms; despair driven hooks and the overall dark atmosphere you've come to expect. We're still refining lyrics, but two song titles will be "The Morning Light" and "Cathedral". We'll divulge more titles, including the album title in the near future. We enter the studio in a bit under 3 weeks."

If you have recently fallen victim to "popmusicitis," your best bet for salvation is to listen to Dismantling Devotion 12 times in a row after apologizing to your mother for all the headaches you cause growing up.

Go here to check them out, with some album clips.

Pick up their old album, for the sake of your sanity. I think it's even covered by most HMO's.

Indian Rock . . .the wave of the FUTURE!

I'm not kidding when I call Indian rock the wave of the future. With over 1 billion people, this stuff is probably more popular than all top-40 music combined across first-world countries.

Funny, the ad wizards would kill to have an audience one-hundredth that size.

Yes, it's funny (it's HILARIOUS), but watch only the first minute of this video and tell me that you aren't singing it the rest of the day:

Band Review - Soulwhirlingsomewhere

This is my first band review. I just located their msypace page and thought I would write something about them.

Name: Soul Whirling Somewhere
Label: Projekt
Genre: Darkwave/Ambient

About soulwhirlingsomewhere [from their profile]:

guy meets girl. girl dumps guy. guy attatches too severely. guy can't let go. immerses himself in the pain. all that's left to do is write songs about it, which, ironically, only serves to further perpetuate the problem. repeat.

Can't get enough of this band! I looked at my CD collection and over the past 10 years I've purchased 5 of their CD's, making them one of the most collected bands in my collection!! I guess that amounts to something.

Anyway, this guy (Michael Plaster, I believe is his name) has had at least 10 years to get over this girl, whoever she was. His music is as obsessed and desperate today as it was back in the late 90's.

Today, I salute that dedication.

I would suggest purchasing his first CD (called "Eating the Sea"), but it's kind of a "cult classic" album. It hasn't been produced for several years, and everyone once in a while you'll find one on Ebay for $50+. I found a copy of it for about $6.

Soulwhirlingsomewhere on Myspace
Another SWS profile
Soulwhirlingsomehwere.com
Projekt Records (one of my favorite labels!)