The Darkness - One Way Ticket to Hell ... and Back

The customer is always right, so they say... hmmm... well, on this week's show we’re going to test that theory to the limit as we look at the second album from the early 00’s most successful hard rock revivalists; The Darkness’ One Way Ticket To Hell... and Back! Let’s hope you had a receipt for that catsuit.

We’re joined by Metal Hammer editor and longtime fan of the band Merlin Alderslade to dig deep into just what went wrong with rock's great new hopes of the 21st century. Released on the 28th of November 2005, the follow up to the inhumanly successful Permission To Land was always going to struggle by comparison, and it would take more than endless nudging, winking and tomfoolery and the excessive production techniques of the legendary Roy Thomas Baker, he of Bohemian Rhapsody fame, to save this album from a fickle mainstream public. During the recording of the record the band lost their iconically moustached bassist Frankie Poullain, frontman Justin Hawkins made the bizarre decision to go solo, and by the time the album was released drugs, apathy and exhaustion had all but destroyed the band, their stratospheric rise all crashing down around them as quickly as it had risen.

But is the album actually that bad, or had The Darkness fifteen minutes of fame just expired? Find out here.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.