DCist, the most popular blog in Washington, D.C. covering all the goings-on in the Capitol, has uploaded a "documentary" of local metallers
DARKEST HOUR as they prepared for their annual homecoming D.C. show. Watch the clip below.
DARKEST HOUR is about to enter Baltimore, Maryland's
Salad Days Studio with producer
Brian McTernan to begin recording its new album for a spring 2009 release via
Victory Records. Things have come full circle for the band, which recorded its 2000 seminal debut
"Mark Of The Judas" with
McTernan.
Commented guitarist
Mike Schleibaum: "
DARKEST HOUR is hard at work now writing and recording demos that will soon birth our follow-up to
'Deliver Us'. The
DARKEST HOUR sound is evolving once again — it will have all the melody, guitar wizardry, and overall epicness that one has come to expect form a great
DARKEST HOUR record but this time that sound will be married with something much darker and sinister.
"We are taking extra time to craft every song and make sure each one is a balls the walls jammer!
McTernan is pushing us extra hard to ensure that when these songs make it to you ears they start bleeding!
"We live in dark times and the world needs a soundtrack for them."
Regarding the band's collaboration with producer
Brian McTernan,
Mike Schleibaum previously said, "We are excited to work with
Brian again. He has been a longtime friend and supporter of the band ever since its very first shows in 1995. When we recorded
'Mark of the Judas' with him in 2000, it helped solidify our sound and define us as a band. Eight years later, it's time to do it again. With all the scars of our past to guide us, we look towards a new future."
DARKEST HOUR recently parted ways with guitarist
Kris Norris and replaced him with Houston's
Mike "Lonestar" Carrigan, who filled in for
Kris during the
Thrash and Burn tour.
DARKEST HOUR's latest album,
"Deliver Us", was released in July 2007 via
Victory Records. The follow-up to 2005's
"Undoing Ruin" was recorded at the
Warehouse in Vancouver, Canada.
Upcoming
DARKEST HOUR shows:
Jan. 30 - The Rockingham County Fair - Harrisonburg, VA
Jan. 31 - The National - Richmond, VA
