One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back
Pomp-rock band follows its virtually overnight success with a quickly assembled second batch of Queen-aping rock.
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…
From the moment the pan flute fanfare on "One Way Ticket" kicks off One Way Ticket to Hell...and Back, it's clear that the Darkness still believes that more is more.
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...
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?