New Stuff We Dig

The feeling one gets when one discovers something new is a unique experience...

After discovering Daylight Dies here I immediately got hold of their latest album and set about drowning myself in their unique brand of melancholy death/doom. Having never heard them before I was genuinely impressed and enraptured at the same time. Step two, secure their entire back-catalogue with the intent to immerse myself even further in the Daylight Dies experience. Having done this and having been thoroughly converted to Daylight Dies at the same time, the next logical step for me was to share the experience with the rest of the world. more

New Stuff We Dig

When I was younger I was never a fan of melodic death metal.

I was entirely engrossed in the death/grind sound bands like Napalm Death and Carcass were churning out by the bucket-load. I wasn't interested in anything but absolute brutality in music. That young man's need for the guitars to rip your head off your shoulders is still entrenched in my brain. As with all things, when one reaches a certain age ones needs change.

And so I found myself searching the metal scene more and more for that something special, that awesome blend of head-smashing brutality and my new, more mature musical need to hear awesome music. And so we come to the album at hand, Before The Dawn's latest masterpiece "Rise Of The Phoenix". This album is actually a few months old (released April this year) but as I've said before I have a pile of recent albums I would like to review. more