Daylight Dies

Daylight Dies is a Death/doom/melodic death metal band from the United States. Their music focuses on dark and melancholic emotional introspection. Daylight Dies was formed in 1996 by Barre Gambling and Jesse Haff. In 1999, the two sole members recorded the band's first demo, The Long Forgotten Demo. In 2000, Guthrie Iddings joined the band as the vocalist and the trio recorded the band's second demo, Idle, which was released through Tribunal Rec... more

Daylight Dies is a Death/doom/melodic death metal band from the United States. Their music focuses on dark and melancholic emotional introspection. Daylight Dies was formed in 1996 by Barre Gambling and Jesse Haff. In 1999, the two sole members recorded the band's first demo, The Long Forgotten Demo. In 2000, Guthrie Iddings joined the band as the vocalist and the trio recorded the band's second demo, Idle, which was released through Tribunal Records. In 2001, Egan O'Rourke joined as the bassist and the band recorded a two song demo that was meant for record labels only. In late 2001, the band signed with Relapse Records. In 2002, the band released their debut studio album, No Reply. Afterwards the band toured Europe with Katatonia and the United States and Canada with Lacuna Coil in support of the album. After the tour, vocalist Guthrie Iddings left the band to pursue a career in California and was replaced by Nathan Ellis. Charley Shackelford also joined as a second guitarist. On... less