Talk:Darkest Hour (band)

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Darkest Hour is one of the best examples of "metalcore" that I have ever heard, yet there is no mention of that genre on this page, I'm hesitant to change the page so drastically, but I feel it is crucial, anyone care to make a case for NOT changing them to metalcore?

They're not metalcore. They play melo-death almost identical to bands like Arch Enemy and Edge of Sanity. "Metalcore" is innaccurately used as an umbrella to describe a lot of modern metal bands, but the little bit of hardcore/punk influence they had when they formed is gone. Undoing Ruin is pretty much straight-forward melo-death with thrash influences.

I agree, Darkest hour has both influences of Metalcore and Melodic Death Metal, I've noticed there is some debate as to which one it is, but I believe it be best to modify the page to acknowledge it as both, any more discussion on this topic will be nice. 1607m4dsk1llz 19:30, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I would say the best way to describe them would be as a Melodic Death Metal band with some thrash influenced metalcore. If you have ever been to the Encyclopaedia Metallum (http://www.metal-archives.com/), which is a fairly respected archive of metal bands, that is their general classification for them. 4.159.167.189 18:53, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Biography section

Not encyclopedic at all. Nbettencourt 00:34, 17 April 2006 (UTC) yep.

I agree. Someone should check if this was copied from a press release or the label's own write-up. I fucking hate when people do that. I edited out some parts that were blatantly POV and had no valuable info, but left the article fairly intact. In the writer's defense, a lot of the stuff that people added "not verifiable" tags to seems pretty factual, and the tags are kind of arbitrary, since a lof of the stuff is from before the major use of the internet and would therefore be nearly impossible to find on there. For example, info about the first EP, which even the band itself is reluctant to acknowledge, is scarce, but the EP definitely exists (I know, as I have the mp3's. I assume the writer was a longtime fan who somehow actually has a copy, but I don't know how he'd prove that. Same goes for a lot of the early lineup changes. Unless there's evidence to the contrary, I'd suggest leaving those parts as is. Also, the image links for the discography don't work. --Alex

-I personally don't think that they are a metalcore band in the first place, I see them much closer to melodic death metal. First of all, breakdown are almost totally absent in their music and breakdown are somehow a metalcore/hardcore trademark. More to it, the vocals are mostly colser to the screaming type that we used to hear from At The Gates, same with the drums but will more groovy beats and many many breaks than Adrian Erlandsson's work with At The Gates. Also their lyrics are a bit different when you compare it to the lyrics of Unearth or Killswitch Engage or Trivium. --Aly

His singing is actually a yell but with some of the rasp of melodic death metal so it's really exactly in between. When you listen to both ATG and Darkest Hour you can hear the similarities and differences in their voice. I believe they are a metal band with thrash, melodic death and hardcore influences. и