After their previous song we didn’t have high hopes for Darkest Hour’s self titled new album, although it plodded along it seemed to not go anywhere, thankfully we’ve now been treated to “Rapture In Exile” following the old patterns that Darkest Hour are best at, a thrashy verse quick fire solo and my personal favourite part of the song their iconic melodic death metal guitar work. Although Darkest Hour are playing a similar style to what they’re used to there is still a small element that this is new Darkest Hour, 2.0 if you will. The new album will be released on August 5th via Sumerian Records and from the sounds of it, it might surprise quite a lot of people. Its also worth noting that making your album self titled is an affirmation of who you are as a band, perhaps this is Darkest Hour saying that they will always stick to their influences but are trying new things, we shall see soon enough.

Bang your head to the video here the live footage was shot from their first date of their new tour on the 5th of July.