Candlelight Records is a record label in Europe and the United States that has covered major artists such as Opeth, Vader, and Emperor. Opeth is an Melodic Black metal band from Sweden. ... Vader is a Polish death metal band founded in 1986. ... Emperor is a seminal and infamous Norwegian black metal band that was formed in 1991, dissolved in 2001, and reformed in late 2005. ...
Created by Barre Gambling and Jesse Haff in 1996, Daylight Dies is often noted as one of the first American bands of their kind to exhibit a strong Scandinavian metal sound.
The majority of the metal underground first became aware of Daylight Dies with their demo Idle which was released on Tribunal Records in 2000 and featured original vocalist Guthrie Iddings.
Daylight Dies toured Britain, Ireland, Belgium and The Netherlands in 2003 with Katatonia, and the United States and Canada with Lacuna Coil in support of the album.
Recorded in Florida, Fistful of Hate is the heaviest and most aggressive album to date from the long-running metal/hardcore band.
Candlelight, with offices in Philadelphia, is headquartered in London and is distributed exclusively in the US by Caroline Distribution; in Canada by PHD Canada; throughout the rest of the world by Plastichead Music Distribution.
The recording is simply great and shows the old times of their technical and progressive Thrash Metal, with influences of Believer and Tourniquet, having the vocalist Daniel Martins, nowadays singing for SOUL FACTOR.