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Multi-award winning music band The Darkness return with their fourth album 'Last Of Our Kind', produced by guitarist Dan Hawkins. Penned in Ireland the record is bursting with the very finest rock-based music available to mankind, as one might expect.

It is the first album to feature new drummer Emily Dolan Davies. She replaces original drummer Ed Graham who departed in mysterious circumstances. Having been drumming since 1999, Emily has played with everybody from the likes of Bono, Bryan Ferry and Tricky. Now she has shown herself to be equal to the ultimate music challenge.

'Last of Our Kind' is the meaty and impassioned follow-up to 2012's 'Hot Cakes' which saw the band reunited having enjoyed a well-publicized and well-deserved hiatus. As distinguished guests of Def Leppard, The Darkness destroyed Download Festival in 2011, then waved goodbye to their loved ones and toured planet Earth for over 18 months. They rounded off 2013 with a celebratory tour marking the 10th Anniversary of their legendary number one debut album. 'Permission to Land' featured the classics 'I Believe In a Thing Called Love', 'Love is Only a Feeling', 'Love on the Rocks with No Ice' and 'Love is a Many Splendoured Thing'; it was the fastest selling debut album by a British band in America since that of The Spice Girls.

'Last of Our Kind is a collection of 10 magnificent songs that The Darkness are extremely proud of. It is the best rock album you will hear this year. It is the best rock album you will hear until next time The Darkness makes an album. I should know. I'm the singer.' - Justin Hawkins / The Darkness

Tracklist
1. Barbarian
2. Open Fire
3. Last Of Our Kind
4. Roaring Waters
5. Wheels Of The Machine
6. Mighty Wings
7. Mudslide
8. Sarah O’Sarah
9. Hammer & Tongs
10. Conquerors

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(hennemusic) UK rockers The Darkness have issued a short audio preview of their new single, "Barbarian", from their forthcoming album, "Cliffhanger." The follow-up to 2012's "Hot Cakes" is expected in March; the project will feature the debut of drummer Emily Dolan Davies following the band's split with Ed Graham.

"She's a hard hitter," frontman Justin Hawkins tells Classic Rock magazine about Dolan, who has previously played with Bryan Ferry and Tricky. "She's got the chops and the attitude that you need to be The Darkness' drummer. She also makes us feel like dirty old men."

"Ed has had some well-publicized health problems in the past. And for one reason or another, he wasn't capable of doing his job anymore," explains Hawkins. "We're still friends with Ed. But now that we have Emily in the band, the worry is gone."

Davies will make her debut with The Darkness at an intimate secret show March 4 on Ireland's Valentia Island as part of a 10-show run across the country to road test their new material.

New album title, pic of the band, track listing, and the first video in this link:

http://classicrock.teamrock.com/news/20 ... -barbarian

I've added the tracklist to the first post, and let's bring that video in-house:



No pre-order links yet for the album, but the article says it's been pushed back to June 1st.

These guys are crazy!

Love it, and this band. Two of the finer guitar players in Hard Rock you can find too.

They tore it up when I saw them a few years ago.

(hennemusic) Rufus Taylor, the son of Queen's Roger Taylor, has been named the new drummer for UK rockers The Darkness. Guitarist Dan Hawkins revealed the news during an April 25 interview with Real Radio XS.

"We already have someone, and we actually played our first show with him last night," said Hawkins. "The 'drummist' will be known as Rufus Taylor, son of Roger Taylor."

Taylor made his debut with The Darkness at a Gibson release party in London for their upcoming album, "Last of Our Kind", after a friend recommended him to the group.

"Rufus just happened to be in Australia at the time when we needed to get someone in," explained Hawkins. "So he stepped off a plane at 6AM yesterday, went straight to a rehearsal with us, where we ran through things a couple of times - the set we were playing that night - and then we went straight to the place and did a gig. Talk about seat of the pants!"

Taylor arrived days after the group announced the departure of drummer Emily Dolan Davies just a month after she made her live debut with the band.

Bump: The domestic release is now up for pre-order, linked in the first post and due out on June 2nd.

And here's the second promo video: