Country of origin: United States Location: Washington, D.C. Status: Active Formed in: 1995 Genre: Melodic Death Metal/Metalcore Themes: Society, Life, Politics, Religion, Inner struggles Current label: MNRK Heavy Years active: 1995-present A bastard child born of the mid 90s punk/metal/hardcore movement, Washington, DC’s DARKEST HOUR combine the passion, energy, and soul of punk/hardcore with the style, speed, vengeance and fury of melodic speed/thrash/death metal. DARKEST HOUR have helped defined the entire New Wave of American Metal sound as one of the pioneers of modern metal/core. The band's early EPs in the 1990s were a dark, metallic style of hardcore punk. On their first full-length they added a significant amount of melodic death metal to their sound, and by 2005's "Undoing Ruin" the metalcore sound had largely evolved into melodic death metal. In 2011, they moved back into metalcore territory a bit while still being primarily melodic death metal. Line-up (members) John Henry : Vocals (1995-present) Mike Schleibaum : Guitars (1995-present) Aaron Deal : Bass (2011-present) Travis Orbin : Drums (2013-present) Nico Santora : Lead Guitars (2021-present)