John enters with the initial riff, spinning a tale of hope and the process of overcoming the end while the band storms and rages war in the background. “Doomsayer(The Beginning of the End)” invites listeners in with a foreboding acoustic guitar. Is this the album that could be up to the task of addressing our issues, but more importantly, picking us up and sending us out to wage war against the hands of opposition so set on our demise?ĭarkest Hour sets the mood for the album with what is essentially their strongest track to date. Deliver Us carries a hefty burden on its shoulders if you can imagine the weight of your own problems, imagine that added to the masses of the rest of the world. In many ways, this is the band at their peak: the melodies – both on the guitar and those found in the vocals – are the band’s strongest yet guitarists Kris Norris and Mike Schleibaum have stepped it up with this outing as well as many solos and impressive leads fill the majority of the tracks finally, vocalist John Henry sounds passionate and relentless his snarl wields urgency and agression as its weapon – a tool to carry the truth to the rest of a world buried in and overcome by the oppression of our inner demons. For the rest of us though, what do we do to survive? Who will deliver us when that time of our life begins?ĭarkest Hour released Deliver Us in 2007.

Some will press through, but others aren’t as fortunate to those who never experience a phase such as this in their life, I say this: I envy you. What exactly is an individual’s darkest hour? Is it a figure of speech alluding to a past experience? Is it an unspecified amount of time when outside pressures are so insurmountably pressed against an individual that they could break – on the inside as well as on the outside? Does everyone have one? If so, what determines the intensity? Be it emotions, psychological predispositions, and the situations themselves, what causes our lowest of lows? I’m sure most of us have – or will – face a time in our lives when things are just too much to bare. Review Summary: 'So rest your head and close your eyes just one more step 'till we're over the edge.'

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