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[DYING OF THE LIGHT]

DYING OF THE LIGHT from Auckland, New Zealand are happy to announce the release of their debut 4 track EP to the world wide web as a free download.
You can get your hands on this recording in 2 formats:
- 320kbps mp3s with cover art for your mp3 player

- CD quality wav files with print quality artwork and labels if you want to burn and print your own CD.

Tracklist:

1. Suffer the Fall
2. Hegemony

3. Skyscraper Blues
4. Initiation+Sacrifice

DYING OF THE LIGHT is:
Chris Rigby – Bass and Vocals
Rangi Powick – Guitars and Production
JP Watson – Drums.


DYING OF THE LIGHT is the result of the musical partnership between Chris Rigby and Rangi Powick who met in school in the 1980s. Together they formed sludge/grind band CHAPEL OF GRISTLE in the southern metal stronghold of Christchurch and had several underground cassette releases in the mid-late 90s. After the demise of CHAPEL OF GRISTLE Chris and Rangi were at opposite ends of the country but by the mid 2000’s the duo found themselves once again in the same city and formed DYING OF THE LIGHT. Drummer JP Watson rounds out the band to a live 3 piece with crushingly heavy results.

Within the short space of time between the release of their debut EP and their first live performance in December 2009 DYING OF THE LIGHT have created quite a stir in the NZ Metal scene. The March 2010 release of their latest track “Hush” propelled the DYING OF THE LIGHT to simultaneous number 1 spots on the MySpace metal band and song charts. The buzz around DYING OF THE LIGHT is building strong as they set about carving themselves a unique space on the musical landscape.

The April issue of New Zealand music periodical Real Groove magazine gave the EP a 4 out of 5 star rating, calling it “Compelling… bleak… caustic” and “a welcome addition to the this country’s heavy music landscape”.

20-year-old fan from Invercargill says:
“DYING OF THE LIGHT are fucking amazing. You all HAVE to check out their EP. It's brilliant. I don't know what genre it is, but it's Doom of some kind, as well as epic in the first degree”.

DYING OF THE LIGHT 4 track EP
Download links:

CD quality wav files and print artwork (162.7MB zip file)
http://www.mediafire.com/?3nmawzjjtzo
Alternative link
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9OMOTZ6U

High quality mp3 files and album art (35.58MB zip file)

http://www.mediafire.com/?ylmkjgqmkmo
Alternative link
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=565AKRHW

DYING OF THE LIGHT on MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/dyingofthelightnz

DYING OF THE LIGHT on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=265276529075

[Rob]

Just had a listen to ya stuff on myspace.

rather doomy and creative.
surprised to see this artistic side of Chris Rigby. shocked! its pretty a powerful sound!
Suffer the fall -

[The Mighty Jazrodian]

soundling/looking good spanners

\m/

[DYING OF THE LIGHT]

See you all there next Saturday! ...and remember to bring T-shirt money
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[Death]

DYING OF THE LIGHT from Auckland, New Zealand are happy to announce the release of their debut 4 track EP to the world wide web as a free download.
You can get your hands on this recording in 2 formats:
- 320kbps mp3s with cover art for your mp3 player

- CD quality wav files with print quality artwork and labels if you want to burn and print your own CD.

Tracklist:

1. Suffer the Fall
2. Hegemony

3. Skyscraper Blues
4. Initiation+Sacrifice

Yeyah thats awesome encouraging download, you gonna have cd's at the show as well?

[DYING OF THE LIGHT]

DYING OF THE LIGHT from Auckland, New Zealand are happy to announce the release of their debut 4 track EP to the world wide web as a free download.
You can get your hands on this recording in 2 formats:
- 320kbps mp3s with cover art for your mp3 player

- CD quality wav files with print quality artwork and labels if you want to burn and print your own CD.

Tracklist:

1. Suffer the Fall
2. Hegemony

3. Skyscraper Blues
4. Initiation+Sacrifice

Yeyah thats awesome encouraging download, you gonna have cd's at the show as well?

Yes! Getting some more done now. We usually sell em for $10

[DYING OF THE LIGHT]

Fuckin' listen to this: http://soundcloud.com/dyingofthelight/c ... laboration

[Trendkill]

Fuckin' listen to this: http://soundcloud.com/dyingofthelight/c ... laboration

Quite cool eh, got a nice creepy feel to it

The doom/sludge style aint really me tho

[Death]

yeah its definitely accomplishing what its meant to i think.

[DYING OF THE LIGHT]

What about this one: http://soundcloud.com/dyingofthelight/rapture-in-black

This is a work in progress tune.

[DYING OF THE LIGHT]

You can hear and down load a full version of 'Rapture in Black' here: http://dyingofthelight.bandcamp.com/

[Skoll]

As I said before, fucking good song.

[Obzen]

Free mp3 download is a good way to get people to give it a proper listen. I generally dont get around to sitting on someones myspace for long enough to take in the music properly, but if I can chuck it on my mp3 player it gets a fair go.

[Death]

Love it!

[DYING OF THE LIGHT]

We've been getting a pretty good response for this song. The main bummer at this stage it will be impossible to perform live. We are looking into options though. Anyone out there able to play key boards?
We're also talking about doing an ep or mini album worth of material in the same vein which would have 'Rature' as it's lead off track. We'll let you know about that here of course.

In the meantime please forward our stuff on to anyone who you think may like it!

[Obzen]

yeah this song sounds wicked. a keeper.

[DYING OF THE LIGHT]

We've decided to enter the Shapeshifter Remix competition. To hear and vote on our entry 'Longest Day/Darkest Night' click the following link:
http://dyingofthelightnz.blogspot.com/2 ... ifter.html

Be sure to share this on your facebook wall post your thoughts here.

Happy New Year!

DOTL

[DYING OF THE LIGHT]

A video for DYING OF THE LIGHT tune 'Skyscraper Blues' will debut on this Friday's (27 May 11) 'Steel Mill' at 10PM! The Steel Mill is on C4 which is now Channel 9 on Freeview. For those without Freeview, we will be posting the video online shortly after. It has been produced by Steve Hogg who also produces the Steel Mill.
'Skyscraper Blues' is a song taken from out self titled debut EP of which you can down load for free from here: http://soundcloud.com/dyingofthelight/sets/debut-ep/

For those in Auckland, we will be playing at Winter Chaos next Friday night (3 June). Details for the show are here: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=138519206218023

[DYING OF THE LIGHT]

The first music video for Dying of the Light. Cheers to Steve Hogg for putting in the work to make this.

[DYING OF THE LIGHT]

"Monolithium">New demo track>Drone>Doom>Limited time http://soundcloud.com/dyingofthelight/monolithium#