On Thursday, U.K. rockers The Darkness announced their plans for their sixth studio album, Easter Is Cancelled, set to arrive on October 4th via Cooking Vinyl Records.
As the band notes in their album announcement on Facebook, “Put away your chocolate eggs, say goodbye to the festive bunny and prepare for sonic apocalypse, for The Darkness spreads across the land!”
The Darkness – Easter Is Cancelled Album Cover
As guitarist/vocalist Justin Hawkins proclaims in a new video announcing the album,
We live in dark times. As power-hungry clowns cast a shadow of despair across the land, our people cower in tumbledown hovels. The children do not dance and the birds are silent. Hope is crushed! Where are the heroes that this world needs, the heroes that this world deserves?
Cast aside despair, people, for the tide will turn! We are men in tight costumes, and we are ready to fight with every weapon that the forefathers have bequeathed – the guitar axe, the drum hammer, the bejewelled codpiece, and the banshee wail of righteous anger.
Nor shall we be cowed by the nay-sayers, nor bought off by the money lenders, nor gagged by the reeking stench of pious indifference that pours from the orifices of the clown-lords. Cometh the time, cometh the band. We are The Darkness and we bring you Light!
Watch the announcement video for The Darkness’ Easter Is Cancelled below:
The Darkness – Easter Is Cancelled – Album Announcement Video
For more information on Easter Is Cancelled and a list of upcoming The Darkness tour dates, head to the band’s website here.