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The Darkness: One Way Ticket to Hell...And Back

by Mike on Sun 11 Dec 2005 10:17 PM EST | Permanent Link | Cosmos

Over the weekend, I picked up the new CD from The Darkness, “One Way Ticket to Hell...And Back.” I listened to the whole thing today I have to say, it’s awesome, awesome awesome! When I purchased “Permission to Land” a while back, I had already heard a few singles and I was totally hooked. Kiss, Slade, and The New York Dolls are favorites of mine and The Darkness is certainly in the glam rock/metal vein. I don’t really listen to a lot of “new” music, so The Darkness was a really pleasant surprise.

“One Way Ticket” is a tremendous second album for The Darkness. There are a lot of interesting sounds and techniques going on with these songs, including some Arabian-sounding playing on the title track and some really interesting effects on the track “Hazel Eyes.” “Hazel Eyes” is definitely one of my favorite cuts thus far, because it features a really amazing range of effects, including some really cool phasing at the beginning of the song with a shift to a short acoustic interlude before the song really gets going. The track also includes some synth-bagpipes towards the end. What a song!

My only real complaint here is that the new album is just way too short. It’s only about 35 minutes long. Considering that we waited 2 years for a new release this time around, I think it’s reasonable to expect that we’d get a lengthier offering to tide us over until the next time. They just want to keep us begging for more, I suppose.

The best thing about this album is that it’s really, really fun. The guys in the band are supposedly very serious about their music and their act, but it’s clear that they have a great sense of humor because it shows through time and again in their music and in their videos. Make no mistake about it, though—The Hawkins brothers are true guitar gods.

One of these days, I’ll devise some kind of well-defined rating scale for my recommendations, but be assured that “One Way Ticket to Hell...And Back” gets my highest rating possible for a metal album: Two horns up!

Further reading
Rock-Based Music of Exceptional Quality :: The Darkness (official site)
The Darkness (Wikipedia entry)

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