When you bring up darkest hour with friends and they say they dunno if they have heard them - "you'll know if you've heard them as soon as you hear the guitar"
Words can't properly express how much this song means to me...now more than ever. My girlfriend had open heart surgery today and playing back John screaming "these wounds will heal" in my mind is a big part of what got me through those agonizing hours. I don't know if anyone in the band will ever read this but I am eternally grateful to you for everything your music has given me now more than ever. Thank you for everything.
@@fawkeeenset I’m the gf that had surgery. It did in fact happen. He told me about what this song did once I woke up from my coma. Thanks for invalidating a stranger for no reason other than to be a doucher. ☺️
@@fawkeeenset lol I know these people personally. Definitely happened. Don't know why you feel the need to to call out randos over something like this for no reason and with no proof. I hope you get into a happier place in life. It's better for your health.
that is an extremely serious delicate procedure to go through, glad she made it through the surgery and is fine, sounds like had a great cardiologist, much love!.......and to @fawkeenset you're a real pos 💩
The victory sampler DVD got me into metal. BTBAM, atreyu, Darkest hour. Now its just Lamb of god, all that remains, and as i lay dying all day long in the office. lol
the lyrical content of so many of the bands i listened to when i was younger seems so contrived and self-indulgent now, but John Henry's lyrics seem even better now. gotta respect these guys.
Undoing Ruin is one of my favorite Metal albums ever. This album got me through a really dark period with my ex-girlfriend near the end of 2005. I will never get sick of this song. Still holds up 18 years later.
When I was a young teenager, I randomly found their CD on the sidewalk. I took it home put it in my Xbox 360, downloaded it, and I have been a huge fan ever since.
I love the art, lyrics, and sound of this album. The album was good to listen to when I used to sneak out at night, when there was no cars, almost everyone asleep, the moon out, the smell of fire wood, and a nice cool breeze. The song tranquil is my favorite song in the album also, if anyone is exploring it.
Back, back in the day, when my friend burned me a copy of his Undoing Ruin album, I listened to it, though, “huh, this is ok, isn’t it?” And continued to listen to the musical luminaries who are Atreyu. Over a decade later I find myself returning to Undoing Ruin, thinking “you were you, dumb, and foolish.” Undoing Ruin came out in a time of stylized vocals and gimmicky band names. But Darkest Hour, and Undoing Ruin in particular, really is the purest American distillation of the Gothenburg scene of melodeath.
does anyone remember the promo dvd released by Victory records featuring this song, also had aiden, hawethorne heights, the autumn offering and atreyu on it plus others i cant remember? and if you do do you know the name of the dvd? i use to have it but can't find it and there was one particular band and song im trying to find but can't.
For real, I remember thinking what is this guy doing? He's not metal at all! But it totally changed my perception and actually made him seem more "metal" by just being and doing whatever he wants. I was in middle school when I first got into Darkest Hour so you can understand my opinion of things at the time.
This is because of his anarchist point that still holds true. I've met the guy. You don't have to conform to anything to just be yourself in your element. Wish more people would take this point home instead of selling shit off to try and brand your garbage. Be true to yourself. Look out for #1.
2022 and I'm still jamming this song to relieve stress since 2011. It is the only thing that got me through the past couple of days. Please never stop writing music.
Lung Cancer shattered my world when it took my father 2 years ago, and the ongoing process of putting myself back together naturally hasn't been easy, but I'm typing this while soaked in sweat from working out. I found my way out of my darkest hour and am in my convalescence.
my best friend died this week, but we both always liked this song alot, these lyrics means more to me now then they ever did, you could literally say i'm in my darkest hour right now and this band is seeing me through it all, its almost poetic.
Crazy to believe 17 years ago I graduated high school when this song came out. I just remembered a nerdy looking vocalist shaking his head with angelic voice of a demon. And fell in love with the band 😁
I fist saw them at Sound of the Underground just before deliver Us came out. I got a poster signed and got to hang with John before my aunt picked me up. It was awesome! :D
I don't know why but some songs give me the exactly same feeling I was feeling at the time they came out, even that at that time I didn't know the bands. Like this song, for example, takes me all the back to 2005, at that time I didn't even know what Metal is.
Well said man, it’s pretty awesome how a certain track/album can take you back to the first time hearing it. This takes me back to cold nights drinking fire ball and snowmobiling, I still feel the crisp air on my lungs when jamming to this entire record.
34 here and i remember seeing this music video in high school on a victory records dvd that came with an atreyu cd i think? anyways, this band stood out among all others back then and tbh, i believe this stuff still holds up and i have yet to find anyone who brings the sound Darkest Hour did.
“It's been a long night, waiting to sleep the day away And it's been a long time coming along with me every step of the way The confinement binds you And nothing scares me, nothing thrills me I've fooled myself into believing That nothing ails me, nothing kills me The confinement binds you And nothing scares me, nothing thrills me I've Fooled myself into believing That nothing ails me, nothing can kill me The stagnant time Is a breeding ground for regrets and wrongdoings And resolutions take their time that's if they even come at all Always seeking redemption Through the echoes I've listened and still came up missing Always seeking redemption Through the echoes I've listened and still seeped through the cracks The stagnant time Is a breeding ground for regrets and wrongdoings And resolutions take their time that's if they even come at all The confinement binds you And nothing scares me, nothing thrills me I've fooled myself into believing That nothing ails me, nothing kills me The confinement binds you And nothing scares me, nothing thrills me I've Fooled myself into believing That nothing ails, me nothing can kill me These wounds will heal nothing can stop me now These wounds will heal nothing can stop me now These wounds will heal These wounds will heal These wounds will heal”
This is metalcore done right. Along with maybe Bleeding Through and Unearth. But Darkest Hour is on a whole other level. Brings me back to middle school/highschool.
Everyone in this comment section are my friends. I fucking love seeing all the comments of people sharing their old school tales of Darkest Hour. Props for sticking with them!
I pray to Stan every night that Darkest hour would release at least one more song that sounds this good. They had three near perfect albums then shit the bed in my opinion. But this album will always live as my favorite metalcore album.
For me, there is At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul which, although a melodeath band/album, pretty much founded the metalcore-genre. And, the only band that got the metalcore-thing exactly right, at least in my book, was Darkest Hour. And Undoing Ruin was the pinnacle of their musicianship, their magnus opus, their masterpiece... When I first got the album back in 2005, it was all I heard for the next 3 weeks and I even learned 2-3 of the songs on guitar. I haven't heard any of the songs from the album in quite a while, until I just clicked into this video just now. A stand-out song, in an album that's jam packed with quality from start to finish. The ending piece that starts at 3:08 can still take my breath away to this day... Who knew that aggressive music could be this beautiful?
@@triplecmafia I have. I've been listening to hardcore since 1997, went to my first show in 1998 and been a hardcore kid ever since. Will be to the day I die. Good bands you mentioned, especially Disembodied. But they're not quite the in the same subgenre of hardcore as this album. But it reminds me that I should listen to "If God only knew the rest were dead" again soon!
2007 in Salt Lake City. Still one of my top concerts of all time. I had backstage passes. I bought a poster on my way in and by the time I got them to sign it, it was in tatters lol
*Why don't lyrics show now 1st* 😌... It's been a long night Waiting to sleep the day away And it's been a long time Coming along with me every step of the way Oh, confinement binds you And nothing scares me, nothing thrills me I've fooled myself into believing That nothing ails me, nothing kills me Oh, confinement binds you And nothing scares me, nothing thrills me I've fooled myself into believing That nothing ails me, nothing can kill me And stagnant time is a breeding ground For regrets and wrong doings And resolutions take their time That's if they even come at all Always, seeking redemption Through the echoes I've listened And still came up missing Always, seeking redemption Through the echoes I've listened And slipped through the cracks And stagnant time is a breeding ground For regrets and wrong doings And resolutions take their time That's if they even come at all Oh, confinement binds you And nothing scares me, nothing thrills me I've fooled myself into believing That nothing ails me, nothing kills me Oh, confinement binds you And nothing scares me, nothing thrills me I've fooled myself into believing That nothing ails me, nothing can kill me These wounds will heal And nothing can stop me now These wounds will heal And nothing can stop me now
back from the prime of victory records!!! i remember those DVD's they'd put in with every Victory CD at the time. Victory TV or whatever,... INCREDIBLE shit! YESSSSSS