In 2019, Dayseeker became dangerously close to calling it quits. After seven years slogging it out on the metalcore circuit, the Orange County quartet were tired, broke and disillusioned. Their fourth album, Sleeptalk, was the last roll of the dice.
“There was an unspoken vibe in our camp that if Sleeptalk wasn’t going to go over well, I didn’t know how much longer we were going to be able to keep doing the band thing,” remembers frontman Rory Rodriguez. “You tour for five or six weeks at a time and make pennies.”
