CANDLELIGHT DEBUTS DAYLIGHT DIES TRACK THIS WEEKEND

Candlelight Records will debut sample from the first track from Dismantling Devotion, the new album from Daylight Dies. "A Life Less Lived" will be available beginning 9am EST on Sunday, January 23. Bring your browser to www.candlelightrecordsusa.com

Four years in the making, the near hour-long Dismantling Devotion is a record filled with quality musicianship that travels a dark and passionate road that will ultimately nestle itself into the hearts of death, doom and dark music fans everywhere. The album was mixed by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios (Opeth/Soilwork) and mastered by Thomas Eberger at The Cutting Room (Opeth/The Hives). Katatonia's Anders Nystrom recently said, "if Dismantling Devotion would have been released in 2005, it would have been my choice for the album of the year."

Formed in 1996, Terrorizer Magazine called Daylight Dies 2003 debut "memorable and engaging." Outburn Magazine proclaimed, "pristine doom metal." And Digital Metal added, "a combination of dark melody and deathly aggression." With Dismantling Devotion, the band look to further their already growing profile. Drummer Jesse Haff notess "it is certainly the most mature material we've written to date. For us it is a strong progression that really shows off our emotionally dark and desperate music; a diverse mix of melancholic, melodic and exceedingly heavy songs."

Dismantling Devotion will be released in the US on March 7.