Darkest Hour reveal new album

2016-12-13 by Toondude | 33 Comments
Washington D.C.-based melodic metalcore band Darkest Hour have now officially revealed their upcoming ninth studio album, The Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora. The album, which is produced by Converge's Kurt Ballou, marks the first album since their self-titled album in 2014, and is currently scheduled to be released on March 10th of 2017.

The band will also be touring in promotion of the album with special guests Ringworm, Rotten Sound, Tombs, and Rivers of Nihil.

Tour dates:
2.17 | Black Cat | Washington, DC*
2 18 | Diesel | Pittsburgh, PA
2.19 | The Agora Theatre | Cleveland, OH
2.21 | Saint Vitus | Brooklyn, NY
2.23 | Reggie's Rock Club | Chicago, IL
2.24 | The Metal Grill | Milwaukee, WI
2.26 | The Riot Room | Kansas City, MO
2.28 | Marquis Theatre | Denver, CO
3.01 | Metro Bar | Salt Lake City, UT
3.05 | Analog Cafe & Theater | Portland, OR **
3.06 | Studio Seven | Seattle, WA **
3.08 | DNA Lounge | San Francisco, CA **
3.11 | Brick by Brick | San Diego, CA **
3.12 | Club Red | Mesa, AZ **
3.13 | Club XS | Tucson , AZ **
3.14 | The Compound 2 | Albuquerque , NM **
3.15 | Backstage Lubbock | Lubbock, TX **
3.16 | Grizzly Hall | Austin, TX **
3.17 | White Oak | Houston , TX **
3.19 | Gas Monkey Bar & Grill | Dallas, TX **
3.21 | Northside Yacht Club | Cincinnati, OH **

(*No Rivers of Nihil)
(**No Rotten Sound)

You can pre-order the album on the record label's website here: https://www.southernlord.com/bands/view/darkest-hour

Tracklist:
1. Knife in the Safe Room
2. This is the Truth
3. Timeless Numbers
4. None of This is the Truth
5. The Flesh & The Flowers of Death
6. Those who Survived
7. Another Headless Ruler of the Used
8. Widowed
9. Enter Oblivion
10. The Last of the Monuments
11. In the Name of Us All
12. Beneath it Sleeps


Tagged: Darkest Hour

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Lelle
December 13th 2016
2770 Comments


Cool! Tentatively excited about this despite the previous album, because it's them.

ConcubinaryCode
December 14th 2016
7562 Comments


Wooo gonna catch them in February.

snerefedsav
December 14th 2016
968 Comments


kurt ballou production for these guys will probably sound super dope

heck
December 14th 2016
7094 Comments


"This is the Truth"
"None of This is the Truth"
well which is it

bloc
December 14th 2016
70107 Comments


If they do a throwback album to the mid-2000s metalcore sound and put that Ballou production over it, it'll be insane.

MarsKid
Emeritus
December 14th 2016
21030 Comments


"This is the Truth"
"None of This is the Truth"
well which is it

Lol

Why even have two songs named like that

Toondude10
December 14th 2016
15186 Comments


maybe it's a two-part thing

can't wait for this

JeetJeet
December 14th 2016
12196 Comments


Stoked for this. All these guys do is drop fuego.

jimmykidd
December 14th 2016
640 Comments


will probably suck like everything else they've done the past 10 years

wwf
December 14th 2016
7198 Comments


yeah their last great album was deliver us which was approximately eighteen album cycles ago already

if anything can get this band back on track though, it's ballou production

henryChinaski
December 14th 2016
5022 Comments


Cool, will check out

Deathconscious
December 14th 2016
27348 Comments


please satan let this be a return to greatness.

HarryBoBerry
December 14th 2016
620 Comments


Sound like a concept album. And with Kris Norris involved this should be better than their last few albums.

jmh886
December 14th 2016
2932 Comments


while their last album wasn't special, i did enjoy john henry's vocals on it and i thought he sounded pretty good doing cleans. if they could use that with better songs that would be cool.

jmh886
December 14th 2016
2932 Comments


wait kris norris is involved?

Deathconscious
December 14th 2016
27348 Comments


pretty sure hes only doing some solos, i dont think he had a big part in the songwriting.

jmh886
December 14th 2016
2932 Comments


yea that aint true.

jmh886
December 14th 2016
2932 Comments


wait youre right nevermind. commenting too fast. thats cool i guess. tho i think the new guy does quite fine with solos.

Deathconscious
December 14th 2016
27348 Comments


http://www.metalinjection.net/upcoming-releases/darkest-hour-sign-to-release-godless-prophets-the-migrant-flora-in-march-announce-spring-2017-dates

strange artwork for a Darkest Hour album. i kind of like it, just not something i would expect.

Deathconscious
December 14th 2016
27348 Comments


and as for Norris, this article just says hes making "contributions". so idk.

Suli
December 14th 2016
76 Comments


This is the band that got me into metal, I remember playing undoing ruin for the first time and being blown away by the sound. Still one of my favorite albums to date and the follow up's Deliver us & Eternal Return were great too.

With the albums after things started to get shaky; on the human romance they sounded like they were running out of ideas and on the self-titled they went for a different sound with very mixed results.

In any case this is great news and I can't wait to check it in March.



heck
December 14th 2016
7094 Comments


I really liked The Eternal Return, Human Romance was pretty meh though and the self-titled sucked

still stoked for this since between Ballou, Norris, the new label, and all their talk of it being their heaviest album yet it sounds like they've got a winning formula

Essence
December 14th 2016
6692 Comments


what a stupid stupid name for an album

band has been boring since Deliver Us

Deathconscious
December 14th 2016
27348 Comments


i dont mind the name. i think if it was either The Godless Prophets or The Migrant Flora it would have sounded a lot better though. i liked The Eternal Return and thought The Human Romance was even better (the music itself, not talking album titles with those two). the self titled did suck.

Essence
December 14th 2016
6692 Comments


for me, Deliver Us sounded like it had emotional heart behind it, and every album since sounds like a band making music because they are supposed to

Durrzo
December 14th 2016
3279 Comments


Pretty hyped. I wanna believe their last album was just a misstep and this will be great.

I heard one of the new tracks live and it sounded like a lot of fun.

JakeStallion
December 15th 2016
651 Comments


Last album was ok at best, but I loved everything up to (and including) Human Romance. Can't wait to hear this one.

HarryBoBerry
December 15th 2016
620 Comments


Yeah it's probably just solos from Norris. That's good enough for me though, having him and Lonestar trade off solos would make it worth a listen.

Deathconscious
December 15th 2016
27348 Comments


Lonestar has potential. even though he was in the band before The Eternal Return was released, Mike wrote most of that album. its still a good album, but Lonestar killed it on The Human Romance. hopefully their third album with him will prove it wasnt just a fluke.

Alondite
December 16th 2016
432 Comments


They released "Knife in the Safe Room" for contributors. Has anyone else heard it yet? Song slays. Album is going to rule.

InFlamesWeThrash666
December 16th 2016
10558 Comments


Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msZDL0mOzH0

bloc
December 16th 2016
70107 Comments


Lol well fuck the contributors

Toondude10
December 16th 2016
15186 Comments


damn, that's tight af



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