Darkest Hour have announced their 10th studio album, Perpetual | Terminal, arriving February 23rd via MNRK Heavy. The video for the title track can be streamed now.
The song serves as the album opener and melds melodic guitar leads with crushing technical metalcore. According to the band, it’s the sound of “a whole Darkest Hour album in one song.”
“It felt like the perfect album opener,” the group stated via a press release, “eventually became the title track, and therefore is the perfect place to start as we present this new album to the world.”
Perpetual | Terminal is Darkest Hour’s first record in nearly seven years and “centers around the duality of ‘survival while embracing rebirth,’” in the words of guitarist Mike Schleibaum.
“We keep killing parts of ourselves to make new parts and survive,” he elaborated. “The story of the record is the story of the band. We’re still here, and we’re giving the world a body of work that’s representative of our music today. We’ve realized relationships, tours, good times, everything that seems to give life meaning, is terminal—and will inevitably end. Nevertheless, we’re 46-year-old dudes who love this music enough to put up with the trials and tribulations of being artists in a touring band.”
Perpetual | Terminal was produced by Taylor Larson, who also helmed the sessions for the band’s 2014 self-titled LP. The new album was entirely independently funded with the aid of fan support on Patreon.
Darkest Hour have a handful of dates left on their current US tour with Fit for an Autopsy. Pick up tickets to the upcoming shows here.
You can pre-order Perpetual | Terminal digitally and on CD and vinyl via Darkest Hour’s Bandcamp. Stream the video for the title track and see the album art and tracklist below.
Perpetual | Terminal Artwork:
Perpetual | Terminal Tracklist:
01. Perpetual Terminal
02. Societal Bile
03. A Prayer to the Holy Death
04. The Nihilist Undone
05. One With the Void
06. Amor Fati
07. Love is Fear
08. New Utopian Dream
09. Mausoleum
10. My Only Regret
11. Goddess of War, Give Me Something to Die For