Darkest Hour - Convalescence

Music video by Darkest Hour performing Convalescence. (C) 2005 Another Victory

[@kindaspooky641]

2024 anyone?!?!

[@billy-fc3pr]

still listenig XD!!!! They played it on tour last month in Montreal :)

[@bryanmcgill6690]

Song that got me into them, will always return to this song from time to time 🤘

[@MrJordwalk]

Lung Cancer shattered my world when it took my father 2 years ago, and the ongoing process of putting myself back together naturally hasn't been easy, but I'm typing this while soaked in sweat from working out. I found my way out of my darkest hour and am in my convalescence.

[@xdieselfiend4860]

I listen to this daily in my car

[@NOISEf7]

2024 but just to show my friend what happenend to Harry Potter :P

[@seymorebutts9332]

john is proof you can look like an accountant and be metal af

[@Brangoth4]

You mean John? John Henry?

[@daviddr115111]

​@Brangoth4 he kinda looks like descendents singer in this video.

[@daveleddy1539]

Stephen King?

[@zre909]

😂

[@ianhazelton8689]

He's looks like Harry Potter in this video to me. And the drummer looked like Ryan Dunn

[@bakerXderek]

Darkest Hour was always a vibe of their own.

[@Backinzbone]

Vibes

[@NydoGamer]

still is

[@steve3101989]

Amen to that.

[@FlankingLeft]

chyeah

[@steve3101989]

When you bring up darkest hour with friends and they say they dunno if they have heard them - "you'll know if you've heard them as soon as you hear the guitar"

[@ignition2788]

Words can't properly express how much this song means to me...now more than ever. My girlfriend had open heart surgery today and playing back John screaming "these wounds will heal" in my mind is a big part of what got me through those agonizing hours. I don't know if anyone in the band will ever read this but I am eternally grateful to you for everything your music has given me now more than ever. Thank you for everything.

[@fawkeeenset]

I’ll take shit that never happened for 500 , Alex

[@stefaniemariemetal]

@@fawkeeenset I’m the gf that had surgery. It did in fact happen. He told me about what this song did once I woke up from my coma. Thanks for invalidating a stranger for no reason other than to be a doucher. ☺️

[@Generalofmetal]

@@fawkeeenset lol I know these people personally. Definitely happened. Don't know why you feel the need to to call out randos over something like this for no reason and with no proof. I hope you get into a happier place in life. It's better for your health.

[@DropdownDropdown]

that is an extremely serious delicate procedure to go through, glad she made it through the surgery and is fine, sounds like had a great cardiologist, much love!.......and to @fawkeenset you're a real pos 💩

[@ladess6802]

@@fawkeeenset I'll take lil basement kiddie living with his mom for 1000

[@kellymcgrath5541]

The victory sampler DVD got me into metal. BTBAM, atreyu, Darkest hour. Now its just Lamb of god, all that remains, and as i lay dying all day long in the office. lol

[@MrMetaljoey]

Scars of Tom

[@EdRoderick]

Got that DVD when I bought Atreyu's Death grip on yesterday (another great album, btw)

[@nicholastignanelli7403]

Dude forreal

[@adamapocalypse2689]

Bro i was just thinking about that sampler.

[@demnbrown]

Have said dvd lol hot it at warped from a victory rep

[@lordovthorn2747]

it's 2023 and I am still rocking out to this like it's 2005 and I'm 14 in my room watching the Victory Records DVD sampler

[@jasonbarber4382]

The victory records dvd sampler!!!! Hahaha yessss man. Yessss

[@michaelhart5087]

I had a 5 cd changer stereo system so i could play all the samplers on there i got from my metal magazines. I was huge metal head at 15-19

[@tannermoret9123]

That sampler is SR tier shit

[@lordovthorn2747]

@@tannermoret9123 I bought a sealed copy of A Deathgrip On Yesterday by Atreyu to get that DVD back in my collection. Needless to say I am hype.

[@admiralapathy]

Thanks for reminding me, I was also 14 in 2005🙃 man I'd kill to hear these songs again for the first time

[@xRipperx619]

"You're a rocker Harry"

[@essenceidentity]

The sand man says catch their lives latley 💡😲🤘

[@kingkrysen]

🤣🤣🤣

[@TheGideonp1]

Best comment

[@loki-of-asgard7877]

It's not Leviosa. It's leviosar.

[@danzig3462]

@Brinkmann2Spaten Are you really that sensitive of a person that you can't take a harmless joke?

[@gregorymitarsarovich113]

wearing baggy pants in a metalcore band in the early 2000s, that's a statement, man

[@higler.]

John Henry gives no fucks

[@ellisdtrails420]

Right? He looks like he works at a coffee shop or something. The drummer looks like he plays hacky sack on a grassy knoll.

[@alanohms]

Darkest hour has always been a little nerdy and different from everyone else in the scene

[@higler.]

@@ellisdtrails420 Ryan Parrish DOES plays hacky sack on grassy knolls

[@petitepatate9727]

Baggy pants is way more metal than wearing girls skinny jeans

[@Willdreynolds870621]

I raise you 2024. I opened for these guys 4 times. Such an underrated band. That drummer is a god.

[@ianhazelton8689]

His solo in tranquil on stage is phenomenal

[@TheSlacker15]

this aged finely

[@chuch541]

Like a fine vinegar

[@schiffwreck99]

All this time; it's 2021 and this song is still in my top 25 greatest metal songs of all time.

[@reklawker]

скинь остальной топ :)

[@dubbled5287]

killer track always will be had a massive influence on me back in the day when i was a vocalist in a metalcore band

[@terrywhite1887]

Its may 2023, every time I hear this song is like the first time I found it!! amazing and eternal!!

[@angelinacandelaria7518]

Top 10 for me

[@trowabarton6819]

the lyrical content of so many of the bands i listened to when i was younger seems so contrived and self-indulgent now, but John Henry's lyrics seem even better now. gotta respect these guys.

[@byronmudaliar8358]

does anyone remember the promo dvd released by Victory records featuring this song, also had aiden, hawethorne heights, the autumn offering and atreyu on it plus others i cant remember? and if you do do you know the name of the dvd? i use to have it but can't find it and there was one particular band and song im trying to find but can't.

[@tranquil87]

+LuckZz Gaming I have one on hand right now. There's A Perfect Murder, Martyr AD and Darkest Hour. Came with an Atreyu CD.

[@leegriffiths725]

it was in the aiden album called nightmare anatomy

[@leegriffiths725]

it was in the aiden album called nightmare anatomy

[@oMelomane]

Victor V promo DVD. but Victor V none the less.

[@GamerGoneFishing]

+LuckZz Gaming That DVD introduced me to this band! via a friend... SICK COMMENT. THE NOSTALGIA IS REAL

[@andrepelletier3006]

This fucking band is an absolute metal machine and sooo underrated.

[@fooshfoosh]

16 years later and this song is still a BANGER! One of the first metalcore bands I discovered in high-school. Love these guys.

[@FromtheEasternLands]

Back, back in the day, when my friend burned me a copy of his Undoing Ruin album, I listened to it, though, “huh, this is ok, isn’t it?” And continued to listen to the musical luminaries who are Atreyu. Over a decade later I find myself returning to Undoing Ruin, thinking “you were you, dumb, and foolish.” Undoing Ruin came out in a time of stylized vocals and gimmicky band names. But Darkest Hour, and Undoing Ruin in particular, really is the purest American distillation of the Gothenburg scene of melodeath.

[@joelsmith4913]

Couldn't agree more, brother! Whoop whoop!

[@MessofRed7]

@Jay Rock AK kris norris og af

[@PhillyThe13th]

Undoing Ruin is one of my favorite Metal albums ever. This album got me through a really dark period with my ex-girlfriend near the end of 2005. I will never get sick of this song. Still holds up 18 years later.

[@rotemshoshani424]

Still probably one of THE best melodic metal albums in that era

[@PhillyThe13th]

@@rotemshoshani424 no doubt!

[@atvena]

Great blend of punk and metal

[@SlanderMoralesRamos]

Kris Norris is a very Underrated Guitarist! He is one of my biggest inspirations growing up playing guitar aside from The Black Dahlia Murder

[@triplecmafia]

shame hes not in the band anymore fr his lead style was tight

[@MoshPitPanda326]

I love the art, lyrics, and sound of this album. The album was good to listen to when I used to sneak out at night, when there was no cars, almost everyone asleep, the moon out, the smell of fire wood, and a nice cool breeze. The song tranquil is my favorite song in the album also, if anyone is exploring it.

[@plutokempton1235]

That's the whole fuckin vibeeee exactlyyy

[@striker6989]

Hahah spot on

[@angeljimenez971]

2020 anyone??

[@irvingperes]

Hell yeah!

[@ferngully3481]

Fuck Yes!

[@Quadito_Bandito]

8th grade school bus ride vibes

[@robhinyngr5913]

yepper

[@cristina_804]

2060

[@blind_surgeon]

I think it's awesome that the singer didn't try to conform to "metal" trends at the time of this video. I wish we had more people like him.

[@higler.]

For real, I remember thinking what is this guy doing? He's not metal at all! But it totally changed my perception and actually made him seem more "metal" by just being and doing whatever he wants. I was in middle school when I first got into Darkest Hour so you can understand my opinion of things at the time.

[@LeviBoldock]

That's because John Henry is fucking badass. So badass he has two first names!

[@wilhelmscream6834]

This is because of his anarchist point that still holds true. I've met the guy. You don't have to conform to anything to just be yourself in your element. Wish more people would take this point home instead of selling shit off to try and brand your garbage. Be true to yourself. Look out for #1.

[@TheeMrsGrinch]

@Olivia Fisher could just be their style. Not everyone is into the metal "look".

[@zfouleur2904]

I remeber when I saw this DVD on a magazine I got that had it in it. I wasn't a fan at first and then later on I realized it was good.

[@cassidymiller1796]

2024 and still listening to this masterpiece, imo one of the best metal songs ever written, gives me goosebumps!

[@Immolator772]

People who think Metalcore sucks, clearly haven't heard this masterpiece.

[@DannySlept]

you're so right

[@takeshikovacs7119]

Kse and parkway drive too...

[@METALisentfortheweak]

its good music people and there fucken labels

[@orbital486]

They released back to back classics with Undoing Ruin and Deliver Us.

[@draxthemsklonst]

Best 2 releases. Not that that's all...

[@Reborn95]

The Eternal Return* is a pretty swell classic too

[@1nfty-]

Damn i miss my teenage years...

[@ThePowerPack7]

This will slap until the end of time 😩😮‍💨

[@SFVinyard]

Not many people sing from the fkin heart like this guy. Rare to find someone rock out this hard.

[@lupefernandez304]

This song made my top 5 on Spotify. So good, stuck in my head on repeat everyday!

[@kogis4827]

One of the greatest tracks of all time.

[@johnnyjames1354]

Heard this in 2007 still good in 2024

[@frigglediggle2]

When I was a young teenager, I randomly found their CD on the sidewalk. I took it home put it in my Xbox 360, downloaded it, and I have been a huge fan ever since.

[@christinalopez2487]

It was meant to be ❤

[@user-rv7ev9qs1g]

my best friend died this week, but we both always liked this song alot, these lyrics means more to me now then they ever did, you could literally say i'm in my darkest hour right now and this band is seeing me through it all, its almost poetic.

[@gianluca5076]

Im sorry for your loss bro. Stay strong king.

[@user-rv7ev9qs1g]

thank you, i was nearly black out drunk when i posted this, i dont normally do it much but your comment helps me alot

[@carlossaldivia2860]

'These wounds will heal and nothing can stop me now' God bless you dude, stay strong

[@TYRANT_GODS]

My condolences.

[@user-rv7ev9qs1g]

@@TYRANT_GODSthank you boss

[@jestinaking7877]

2022 and I'm still jamming this song to relieve stress since 2011. It is the only thing that got me through the past couple of days. Please never stop writing music.

[@Bisqcateer]

I randomly had this tune pop into my head today and finally tracked it down and wow what crazy nostalgia after listening to this again

[@NoahCanFB]

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@LightningsGames]

Just discovered them. They are absolutely amazing! The only thing missing (FOR ME) is a bit of clear vocals. Still they are AMAZING

[@MerriMerr]

3:13 - best ending. Goosebumps every time. Thank you for this!

[@user-mk7to9hg3e]

Crazy to believe 17 years ago I graduated high school when this song came out. I just remembered a nerdy looking vocalist shaking his head with angelic voice of a demon. And fell in love with the band 😁

[@outofthedark18_gaming]

This band and song is still so great. Love darkest hour so much. 🖤🤘

[@sandapile]

yes, yes, yes, yes, A MILLION TIMES YES!

[@BurnCrushExecute]

Victory Records... I found this band in a free DVD so long ago... *Thank you*

[@leor8813]

i know what dvd you're talking about! LOL this is how i found Darkest Hour

[@philippbrad2187]

Yesssss dude. Those victory dvds got me into so many good bands.

[@coreykelly8926]

Still have the one i got somewhere with my cd collection lol

[@tjelliott3678]

same. it was some other good bands on there too but this one stuck with me

[@BLVEANDCNQR]

Did it so happen to have Silverstein, smile in your sleep on it as well?

[@PootyDaPlaciD]

THIS SONG WILL FOREVER BE UNDERRATED. LOVE THIS SONG.

[@xpeterx]

15 years later, still a fucking masterpiece!

[@edfernandes4249]

Super Rock...And Headbanger's Ball...Where it all began...When MTV was still MTV...!

[@codyhartnett4992]

To this day this album has helped me with my anxiety and puts me in a better mood. Has to be my favorite album ever made hands down 🍻

[@GrimMetropolis]

How does this not have millions of views!!?!?!? Today's metaldeathdorkcore owes them...

[@Atomk1]

2020 and we still here!!

[@BurnCrushExecute]

🤘😎🤘

[@sleddin4513]

Hell yeah 🤧🖤

[@B3rrymon]

Was looking for fellow lads of great taste commenting in 2020 just now haha! Darkest Hour is just such an amazing band🤘 Cheers

[@Halcyon-xl7cn]

We never left

[@Konfide4043]

Top 5 best songs of all time?!?!

[@jessepezewski8578]

2023 still rocking this shit almost 20 years later.

[@ObsessiveFish]

Oh man I miss Kris Norris. Hes such an epic guitarist.

[@AzazelZaphorOmega]

I fist saw them at Sound of the Underground just before deliver Us came out. I got a poster signed and got to hang with John before my aunt picked me up. It was awesome! :D

[@valentinevega7090]

3:15 still gives me the same feeling as back in the day !! Badass song

[@modernmyth9050]

Throwback to the Victory Records sample DVD lol good times. Simpler times..

[@adrianbecerra5139]

Hot damn time flies

[@OneD33pTX]

Their solos are always so epic. So melodic

[@DanFeske]

Dwight Shrute finally releases his anger!

[@kylem1112]

They're shredding next to his beet farm 😎.

[@absolutelynot554]

These wounds will heal

[@TheRedRaven_]

Only a metal head would get a system in their car for the opening of this track. The bass drum hits so hard. Nostalgia, was blasting this back in 05

[@Rockrebelrewind]

This is a beautiful song ! i have listened to this 14 years plus, Nostalgia to it's finest xx

[@GabrielKlock]

I don't know why but some songs give me the exactly same feeling I was feeling at the time they came out, even that at that time I didn't know the bands. Like this song, for example, takes me all the back to 2005, at that time I didn't even know what Metal is.

[@ACheesecakeYum]

nailed it

[@Darkestal]

Well said man, it’s pretty awesome how a certain track/album can take you back to the first time hearing it. This takes me back to cold nights drinking fire ball and snowmobiling, I still feel the crisp air on my lungs when jamming to this entire record.

[@joogullae3456]

I understand exactly what you mean.

[@elgendor-powerslayer_4184]

Yep, still jamming to this shit today.

[@oryxthetakenking9094]

It's so damn good

[@elgendor-powerslayer_4184]

Hell yeah it is

[@CasosEnVideo]

same!

[@chrisy4011]

Still slaps 2023

[@higler.]

Everyone in this comment section are my friends. I fucking love seeing all the comments of people sharing their old school tales of Darkest Hour. Props for sticking with them!

[@shredmore3049]

vocalist lookin like he just left chemistry class

[@mihalyfrancia]

I am a diehard In Flames fan. I really like how these guys took the swedish death metal elements and made it their one, with a spoonful of core.

[@ryanpoplin4863]

This is one of those bands when after hearing just one song: you find yourself with the album in your hands within as soon as possible.

[@jeanramos6705]

Underrated as f**k

[@drizzt1618]

Very talented and underrated band.

[@bw9804]

Nothing like waking up for school turning Fuse Tv on and watching this song come on while you get ready for school back in like 2006ish!

[@Itiswrittenkjv1611]

That end jam is killer

[@SpaceHamster11]

"Undoing Ruin" is hands down one of the best albums I have ever owned. So much replay value, technicality and it was way ahead of it's time.

[@adamlawson5021]

2022 and still fire! 🔥🔥🔥

[@Japhala_Aether_Gwangwa]

Such good metal

[@kmuck8677]

This is metalcore done right. Along with maybe Bleeding Through and Unearth. But Darkest Hour is on a whole other level. Brings me back to middle school/highschool.

[@VikingTerror]

For me, there is At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul which, although a melodeath band/album, pretty much founded the metalcore-genre. And, the only band that got the metalcore-thing exactly right, at least in my book, was Darkest Hour. And Undoing Ruin was the pinnacle of their musicianship, their magnus opus, their masterpiece... When I first got the album back in 2005, it was all I heard for the next 3 weeks and I even learned 2-3 of the songs on guitar. I haven't heard any of the songs from the album in quite a while, until I just clicked into this video just now. A stand-out song, in an album that's jam packed with quality from start to finish. The ending piece that starts at 3:08 can still take my breath away to this day... Who knew that aggressive music could be this beautiful?

[@Doppelganger444]

I knew

[@drew8613]

dude i just saw at the gates play slaughter of the soul and accomplished all my goals in life

[@triplecmafia]

you should check out some of the 90s bands like poison the well, disembodied, culture, all else failed

[@VikingTerror]

@@triplecmafia I have. I've been listening to hardcore since 1997, went to my first show in 1998 and been a hardcore kid ever since. Will be to the day I die. Good bands you mentioned, especially Disembodied. But they're not quite the in the same subgenre of hardcore as this album. But it reminds me that I should listen to "If God only knew the rest were dead" again soon!

[@natekappen7197]

had to come listen to this after hearing their newest song.

[@marv049]

haha, i did the same thing too!

[@kvltizt]

Jesus Christ, me too. Some autotuned anal abortion.

[@ChopiStunner]

Can i Join in? lol

[@l3wdlemon708]

I just did the same shit man. That new stuff is garbage.

[@OGPacoTaco]

I'm sure everyone did xD

[@JohnnyBargeldBoom]

When we were young and free..

[@Edward_Samuel]

I still jam this and I originally got this on a CD sampler from victory records. Miss those days ⌚ 🖤🤘🎶🎸🎙🥁🎸🎶🤘🖤🌌

[@ugsskywatchermckenzie4319]

“It's been a long night, waiting to sleep the day away And it's been a long time coming along with me every step of the way The confinement binds you And nothing scares me, nothing thrills me I've fooled myself into believing That nothing ails me, nothing kills me The confinement binds you And nothing scares me, nothing thrills me I've Fooled myself into believing That nothing ails me, nothing can kill me The stagnant time Is a breeding ground for regrets and wrongdoings And resolutions take their time that's if they even come at all Always seeking redemption Through the echoes I've listened and still came up missing Always seeking redemption Through the echoes I've listened and still seeped through the cracks The stagnant time Is a breeding ground for regrets and wrongdoings And resolutions take their time that's if they even come at all The confinement binds you And nothing scares me, nothing thrills me I've fooled myself into believing That nothing ails me, nothing kills me The confinement binds you And nothing scares me, nothing thrills me I've Fooled myself into believing That nothing ails, me nothing can kill me These wounds will heal nothing can stop me now These wounds will heal nothing can stop me now These wounds will heal These wounds will heal These wounds will heal”

[@aaronK462]

Bill Gates in an alternate universe

[@midnighttrain7844]

Accurate！

[@syuhadaabdu2836]

Lol

[@getlifted604]

My dude yea

[@GrumpyAsFuk]

fuck, can't unsee it now

[@Eramthgin713]

No joke, i legit made this joke to my friends years ago. That’s hilarious.

[@corradodesetta3388]

Dh created a sound that many bands copy still today ..pioneers

[@galaxydrifter1165]

I pray to Stan every night that Darkest hour would release at least one more song that sounds this good. They had three near perfect albums then shit the bed in my opinion. But this album will always live as my favorite metalcore album.

[@1991punkrocker]

Loving the Guitar Heeadbanging and Drum beats all in one The best song from Darkest hour

[@inkyarsonistlynx9810]

2023!!!

[@jarmalofamerica]

Fuck yeah 🤘🏾

[@Adam_yeah_Dude]

Miss this shit 2023👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽✊🏽

[@Nyfancam01]

back from the prime of victory records!!! i remember those DVD's they'd put in with every Victory CD at the time. Victory TV or whatever,... INCREDIBLE shit! YESSSSSS

[@AntiSocialMachine]

Once this song sets in, you'll realize how much you appreciate it. Beautiful song.

[@lchaney]

2024, stoked these guys are back!

[@RickyRepair]

2007 in Salt Lake City. Still one of my top concerts of all time. I had backstage passes. I bought a poster on my way in and by the time I got them to sign it, it was in tatters lol

[@erikvanwyk1464]

so finally these guys are gracing us South Africans wirh their presence in less than week's time. So amped. Been waiting more than 10 years for this.

[@dklopp541]

Still listening in 2015 Love this song.

[@FusRoDah2]

Time does not affect quality with this type of music.

[@guitarsolokiller631]

+FusRoDah2 2016 and i still loving it :3

[@FusRoDah2]

GuitarSoloKiller So am I, old Darkest Hour is a great example of great American melodic death metal.

[@agarci7]

Fuck yea, John has always had that perfect metalcore voice

[@harryprice208]

Over a decade later and this still slaps.

[@beefsupreme8893]

So happy I got to see them at Blue Ridge Rock Festival 2022. Pretty unreal.

[@essenceidentity]

*Why don't lyrics show now 1st* 😌... It's been a long night Waiting to sleep the day away And it's been a long time Coming along with me every step of the way Oh, confinement binds you And nothing scares me, nothing thrills me I've fooled myself into believing That nothing ails me, nothing kills me Oh, confinement binds you And nothing scares me, nothing thrills me I've fooled myself into believing That nothing ails me, nothing can kill me And stagnant time is a breeding ground For regrets and wrong doings And resolutions take their time That's if they even come at all Always, seeking redemption Through the echoes I've listened And still came up missing Always, seeking redemption Through the echoes I've listened And slipped through the cracks And stagnant time is a breeding ground For regrets and wrong doings And resolutions take their time That's if they even come at all Oh, confinement binds you And nothing scares me, nothing thrills me I've fooled myself into believing That nothing ails me, nothing kills me Oh, confinement binds you And nothing scares me, nothing thrills me I've fooled myself into believing That nothing ails me, nothing can kill me These wounds will heal And nothing can stop me now These wounds will heal And nothing can stop me now

[@gatsu8223]

Thanks 🤘🏼

[@trevorbrowning6345]

These lyrics heal the mortally wounded.

[@dj.manguanoloco5084]

This should be top comment

[@Mattural_ice386]

Seen these guys 6 times, sound just as great live! Can't wait for number 7

[@keepitwolf23]

playing at my club next week cant wait for the good noise.

[@sylvaner01]

This song is still one of my favourite to this day, absolutely unbelievable

[@Jpirie84]

dam this use to be my shit, use to listen this song everyday in iraq before rolling out to pump me up.

[@aaronray1825]

Justin Pirie same

[@frankapple1244]

Thank you for your service

[@joeylucero4970]

Thank you for your service brotherman

[@kittymarlu526]

One of my fave metal bands in high school was rockin this hard

[@esp3548]

2023 ❤

[@welkcub2641]

Man I loved this CD! Brings back memories, going to have to buy it again

[@mikexxxmilly]

That bridge toward the end where he brings back the main riff and the drums half time to fade into the end. Gahhhhhh sooo good