The Deadlight Sessions

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = The Deadlight Sessions | type = EP | artist = [[Heaven Below]] | cover = Deadlight Sessions.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|2013|08|13}} | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Rock music|Rock]] | length = {{Duration|m=31|s=20}} | label = Broken Halo Media | producer = | prev_title = [[Heaven Below (EP)|Heaven Below]] | prev_year = 2010 | next_title = | next_year = }} '''''The Deadlight Sessions''''' is an [[extended play|EP]] from American rock band [[Heaven Below]]. The album was released on August 13, 2013 through Broken Halo Media.

== Composition == The album takes a more acoustic approach than previous albums. This was done due to the success of the acoustic version of their song "When Daylight Dies". The fourth track from the album "The Needle Lies Again" was written about [[Paul Gray (American musician)|Paul Gray]] from [[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]], who died in 2010 of a [[drug overdose]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.milkcratemusic.com/2013/08/interviewwith-heaven-below-frontman.html |title=Interview with Heaven Below frontman Patrick Kennison |publisher=MilkCrateMusic.com |date=2013-08-12 |accessdate=2013-11-15}}</ref> The song talks about the overwhelming feeling of hurt and anxiety that exists when having to deal with the death of a close companion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.milkcratemusic.com/2013/07/you-want-taste-tease.html |title="The Needle Lies Again" - New Music from Heaven Below |publisher=MilkCrateMusic.com |date=2013-07-11 |accessdate=2013-11-15}}</ref>

== Touring == In September 2013, the band went to Hooligan's Bar & Grill in [[New Braunfels, Texas]] near [[San Antonio]] for a one stop show to promote the album.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://events.mysanantonio.com/new_braunfels_tx/events/show/352530543-heaven-below-returns-to-san-antonio |title=Heaven Below Returns to San Antonio at Hooligan's Bar & Grill, 9/19/2013 - mySanAntonio.com |publisher=Events.mysanantonio.com |date=2013-09-19 |accessdate=2013-11-15}}</ref>

== Critical reception == Sweet Lou of The Heavy Metal ICU states that "Tomorrow Never Comes" is "close to sounding very Motley Crue 'If I Die Tomorrow'".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heavymetalicu.com/cd-review-heaven-below-deadlight-sessions/ |title=CD Review: Heaven Below, The Deadlight Sessions |publisher=The Heavy Metal I.C.U. |date= |accessdate=2013-11-15}}</ref>

== Track listing == #Tomorrow Never Comes - 4:39 #Damaged - 3:25 #Bleed the Sky - 4:19 #The Needle Lies Again - 5:16 #Between the Truth - 3:31 #The End of Days - 3:40 #No More Heroes - 6:30

== References == {{Reflist}}

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