As you might have heard or already know, I was a Metal DJ for WBGU’s Metal Storm for 4 long years! In that time, I went through nearly 20-40 new CD’s a week. I was up on my game about Hardcore, Prog Metal, Black Betal, Grind, Tech Metal, and Metalcore bands. However, since moving to Chicago, I have listened to a far less amount of metal due to no longer being a DJ, and shitty bands like Attack! Attack! that have ruined the image of metal.

Nevertheless, I still keep up with my favorite metal bands which include: Cephalic Carnage, Between the Buried and Me, Genghis Tron, The Black Dahlia Murder, Behemoth, Old Man’s Child, and Into the Moat. My favorite of all these different metal bands would be the thrash-metal band, Darkest Hour.

Darkest Hour has been a huge influence on my metal friends and I as we’ve been completely raised on the riffs from “Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation” and the early works of Unearth. These bands were great influences to our guitar work and still reign supreme.

Darkest Hour will be releasing “The Eternal Return” tomorrow, and this is the first time we’ve heard anything since the 2007 release “Deliver Us.” Their previous album was a new sound for Darkest Hour as they moved away from their thrashy riffs and punk like songs into a more melody driven epic band. Their 2007 release stated on the inside cover “No keyboards were used in the making of this album” which was impressive with the synth-like guitar sounds. However, “The Eternal Return” has made a sort of “return” to the thrash metal. Darkest Hour fans will be thoroughly entertained by this album and will hear some of the thrashy songs that made “Hidden Hands of a Sadist Nation” popular.

Although they have stuck to more thrash, Darkest Hour has not lost their epic metal band touch. Guitar solos in songs like “Tides” really shows the impressive guitar work that “Undoing Ruin” (2005) harvested. The songs all have a theme on life and how to move past the bad to the good. There are several songs denying God and Christianity, which haven’t been a dominant theme in other albums. Darkest Hour usually keeps things political, but with the new album, faith is the target and what we believe in. (Don’t ever let metal lyrics get in your way of the music. Half of the time, the lyrics are silly or absurd to play as a joke or to test the boundaries of what can be said.)These lyrics fight for the voice of truth and try to make it past the smoke and mirrors that some faiths can lead us to believe.


This record is one of my favorites already and I believe most fans will not be disappointed by this new album.

Thanks to the internet this album is already available. I plan on purchasing it, and paying for their shows. I think you should do the same, but for previewing purposes you may go here to lsiten!