One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back

AlbumNov 28 / 200512 songs, 41m 29s
Hard Rock
Popular
6.5 / 10

Pomp-rock band follows its virtually overnight success with a quickly assembled second batch of Queen-aping rock.

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When The Darkness first sprang from oblivion in 2003, it was difficult to know how seriously to take them. Queen and '80s hair-metal were out of fashion even as subjects of ironic appreciation, and yet here was a band embracing their most excessive qualities, then exceeding them. Songs like "Get Your Hands Off My…

8 / 10

It's a sign of modern rock's dreary, lazy solipsism that so much of the press written about the Darkness focuses on the band's supposedly satirical sense...

<p>(East West)</p>

4.0 / 5

The Darkness - One Way Ticket To Hell And Back review: One Way Ticket To Hell And Back steers in a bold and different direction to its debut, but dare I say it's more fun that its predecessor?

6 / 10