Dayseeker January 24-25, 2026

                                
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Dayseeker January 24-25, 2026Dayseeker’s Pale Moonlight was their highest charting song that landed them in the top-10 of the 2025 LA Lloyd Rock 30 Year End Countdown.  They released their sixth studio album Creature In The Black Night October 24, 2025.  This album had a new message, “Fans expecting a sorrowful descent into depression might be surprised — Creature In The Black Night has sharper edges, heavier riffs, and a newfound sense of clarity. ‘There was this idea that we’d get more and more commercial over time,’ Rory Rodriguez says. ‘But I think the opposite happened — we’re riffing more, I’m screaming more. And it feels good. It feels honest.'”
LESS GRIEFDayseeker’s album Dark Sun had a grief-stricken overtone as Rory was dealing with the loss of his father. However, as he began writing new songs for their next album, he decided to take a different direction that was less sad. He tells LA Lloyd, “Yeah I definitely felt like it might be good to ring it in a little bit as far as how how sad our music got because I’d see comments you know from people who we obviously have a very dedicated and loyal fan base, but I’d see some more casual listeners be like, ‘Man, I really love that band, but I have to be in a mood to listen to them because the content is just so sad and so heavy.’ So I wouldn’t say it was super intentional in our new record, but I definitely felt like it would be good to kind of pull it back a little bit and make sure that the songs were something that could be enjoyed and listened to all the time, not just when you’re really depressed or really sad or anything. So it was honestly, though, just kind of an honest representation of what I was going through currently.’”
CRAWL BACK TO MY COFFINThere are a lot of metaphors in the songs on Creature In The Black Night.  Working with producer Daniel Braunstein, “the album is Dayseeker’s most immersive and intentional record to date — eerie, cinematic, and threaded with a dark (and sexy) emotional current. While not a concept album in the traditional sense, Creature in the Black Night exhibits thematic cohesion, from its shadowy visual identity, Grim Reaper iconography, and ominous atmosphere, to how its songs unfold like chapters. ‘There’s a horror-inspired vibe that took hold early on,’ Rodriguez explains. ‘It wasn’t planned. But once it started showing up in the songs, we leaned into it.'”
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