Darkest Hour are a US metal band and this is their tenth album.
It’s been a long time since 2017’s Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora, but now Darkest Hour have returned. They’ve brought with them 41 minutes of scorching material in the shape of Perpetual | Terminal, and make no mistake, this has been worth the wait.
Darkest Hour’s signature sound and sharp songwriting are alive and well. Blazing with vibrant intensity and dark emotive appeal, these songs infect the listener with their creative riffs, barbed hooks, and feeling-rich vocals. Perpetual | Terminal boasts a relatively diverse array of music, all delivered within Darkest Hour’s inimitable sound. Fast and slow, brutal and atmospheric, but always ripe with feeling and uplifting darkness, Perpetual | Terminal offers a comprehensive package for fans of aggressive heavy music. Molten guitar solos, killer riffs, dynamic structuring, fiery delivery, vocals that grab you hard…Darkest Hour are just on fire here.
Blending melodic death metal with thrash and hardcore, into concise bursts of catchy heaviness, Perpetual | Terminal is an extremely strong and moreish album. If you’re a fan of Darkest Hour’s Undoing Ruin/Deliver Us era, then Perpetual | Terminal is a treasure trove of music for you to explore. It doesn’t limit itself to just this time period though, but rather ranges across the majority of their discography, all the while still existing in its own right as a self-contained work of metallic art, with a few tricks up its sleeve that are entirely its own, (the epic One with the Void is a great example of this).
Darkest Hour really are one of the best when it comes to this sort of music. Perpetual | Terminal is a great album, and should absolutely not be missed.
Essential.
Wonderbox Metal 