Countdown to Devil
Countdown to Devil is the first studio album by rock band Heaven Below. The album was released on February 11, 2009. Composition The Laughing Dead "The Laughing Dead", the tenth track on the album, was at one time, a candidate for the name of the band. Having a lyric mentioning "Heaven Below", the song helped the band decide on its current moniker. EMURG describes the song as one being "about enjoying every minute of life". When Daylight Dies "When Daylight Dies" has been played on more than 4 dozen radio stations in the United States including Hard Drive and The Rock 30. Lead vocalist Patrick Kennison and Marty O'Brien, Heaven Below's bassist at the time who performed and continues to perform in We Are the Fallen befriended Ben Moody of Evanescence and We Are the Fallen. When Moody heard the track, he told the band that while he'd like to produce the entire Countdown to Devil album, that he had availability for one song only. When Moody stated that he wanted to make "a cinematic song that sounds like something epic", Kennison agreed to have Moody work on the song. Critical reception EMURG states that the vocals for the album