Dayseeker drop “Crawl Back to My Coffin” video

So, Dayseeker just dropped the most epic Love song about emotional necromancy ever written.

Just being real: no one writes a song called “Crawl Back to My Coffin” because they’re fine. It’s not an upbeat anthem for people who still believe in dual-income households and mutual trust. This is a love song for the already dead – not in the literal, Bram Stoker sense, but in the emotional, Southern California way.

“Crawl Back to My Coffin” is a metaphor for love that hurts you when you’re guarded and causes your walls to go up even further,” says vocalist Rory Rodriguez. Which is basically the existential thesis statement for modern romance. You meet someone new, they make you feel alive, and suddenly you remember that resurrection is just a trick God plays on people who didn’t learn their lesson the first time.

That’s the heartbeat of Creature In The Black Night, Dayseeker’s new record (out October 24 via Spinefarm): love as spiritual warfare, and heartbreak as a return to the grave. It’s what would happen if Edgar Allan Poe had fronted a post-hardcore band that knew how to properly layer synth textures.

The video, directed by Jensen Noen, looks like a eulogy shot by David Fincher during his goth phase. There’s fog, romance, self-hatred, and probably a metaphor about how we all bury the best parts of ourselves just to keep from feeling too much. Watching it feels like standing outside your own funeral while your ex gives a speech you can’t interrupt.

Produced by Daniel Braunstein (Spiritbox, Silent Planet) and mixed by Zakk Cervini (Blink-182, Bring Me The Horizon), Creature In The Black Night sounds like heartbreak weaponized, cinematic, eerie, and unapologetically sensual. It’s the band’s most self-aware record yet, because it doesn’t pretend sadness is pretty. It just admits it’s addictive.

Rodriguez explains it better than anyone else could: “There’s a horror-inspired vibe that took hold early on. It wasn’t planned. But once it started showing up in the songs, we leaned into it.” In other words, Dayseeker did what every great band eventually has to, they stopped trying to heal and started chronicling the sickness.

Despite the title, this isn’t a descent into despair. It’s a reclamation. Creature In The Black Night is heavier, darker, and paradoxically clearer than anything they’ve done before. “There was this idea that we’d get more and more commercial over time,” Rodriguez says. “But the opposite happened, we’re riffing more, I’m screaming more. And it feels good. It feels honest.”

Honesty is a strange drug in music. When you’re too sincere, people accuse you of being dramatic. When you’re ironic, they accuse you of being detached. Somehow Dayseeker has found the only acceptable middle ground: scream the truth until it becomes art.

And it’s working. “Pale Moonlight,” the album’s lead single, clawed its way to the top ten on the radio charts, the band’s first-ever Top 10. Which means sad rock just officially entered its cinematic universe phase.

Creature In The Black Night arrives October 24 via Spinefarm. Tour dates run through 2025.