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Showing posts with label Darkest Hour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Darkest Hour. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Darkest Hour - Deliver Us


Album: Deliver Us
Genre: Metal
Year: 2007
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1. Doomsayer (The Beginning Of The End)
2. Sanctuary
3. Demon(s)
4. An Ethereal Drain
5. A Paradox With Flies
6. The Light At The Edge Of The World
7. Stand And Receive Your Judgement
8. Tunguska
9. Fire In The Skies
10. Full Imperial Collapse
11. Deliver Us

Deliver Us is Darkest Hour's fifth and most recent full length album. I'll just tell you straight-up that I love this album. It is, of course, melodic as fuck, and John Henry's lyrics and vocals are just that damn good. Go see this band live, I assure you that you will not be disappointed.

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Darkest Hour - Hidden Hands Of A Sadist Nation


Album: Hidden Hands Of A Sadist Nation
Genre: Metal
Year: 2003
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1. The Sadist Nation
2. Payphones And Pills
3. Oklahoma
4. Marching To The Killing Rhythm
5. The Misinformation Age
6. Seven Day Lie
7. Accessible Losses
8. The Patriot Virus
9. Veritas Aequitas
10. With Friends Like These…

Yet another album by the amazingly melodic Darkest Hour. Hidden Hands Of A Sadist Nation is their third full length studio release and a personal favourite (though I really can't choose between this album and Undoing Ruin). The first track, The Sadist Nation, is my favourite... I love the fucking introduction to it, it's great. This album is really thrashy, more so than their previous two albums, but I love it. Once again... go see them live!

Posted by Phoenix at 10:35 PM 0 comments  

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Darkest Hour - So Sedated, So Secure


Album: So Sedated, So Secure
Genre: Metal
Year: 2001
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1. An Epitaph
2. So Sedated, So Secure
3. The Hollow
4. Another Reason
5. No Closer Than A Stranger
6. A Cold Kiss
7. Treason In Trust
8. The Last Dance Massacre

Here's another amazing and melodic album by Darkest Hour. So Sedated, So Secure is their second full length release, put out in 2001 and then rereleased in 2006. A damn good album by a damn good band with damn fucking good music! Praise them and go see them live!

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Darkest Hour - The Mark Of The Judas


Album: The Mark Of The Judas
Genre: Metal
Year: 2000
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1. For the Soul Of The Savior
2. A Blessing In Tragedy
3. The Legacy
4. Part II
5. Eclipse
6. The Mark Of The Judas
7. Escape Artist
8. Messiah Complex
9. How The Beautiful Decay

The Mark Of The Judas is Darkest Hour's first full length studio album and right from their first album, they already make a great impression on the Metal music scene. This is album is really, really good and I enjoyed listening to it. Another great thing about this band is that they only get better and better each album after this. You've gotta love that melodic sound!

Posted by Phoenix at 9:06 PM 0 comments  

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Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin


Album: Undoing Ruin
Genre: Metal
Year: 2005
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1. With A Thousand Words To Say But One
2. Convalescence
3. This Will Outlive Us
4. Sound The Surrender
5. Pathos
6. Low
7. Ethos
8. District Divided
9. These Fevered Times
10. Paradise
11. Tranquil

Undoing Ruin is Darkest Hour's fourth album, but I'm going to review it first because it is the first album I heard from them. I have to, of course, do a little rant about something that I never understood... which is why people label this band under Metalcore. I guess they do have some Hardcore influence in their music, but they lack generic breakdowns and the music is more than just monotonous Metalcore riffs. This is why I placed them simply as Metal above, because they can't really be placed in any other particular branch of it. Anyway, Undoing Ruin is really a great album and Darkest Hour is a great band. The guitar riffs are very melodic, creative, and catchy (which I love!) and every instrument is played and recorded to its best. I saw these guys on their last headlining tour about two weeks ago and they put on one of the best performances I've ever seen in my life... and I've seen quite a lot.

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