The Black Halos Return With Anticipated New LP How the Darkness Doubled
Canada’s legendary punk ‘n’ rollers, The Black Halos, have recently released their anticipated new LP, How the Darkness Doubled on November 25th via Stomp Records.
How the Darkness Doubled is the unofficial follow-up album to The Black Halos’ acclaimed 2001 release, The Violent Years. Original songwriting team Billy Hopeless, Rich Jones (guitarist with Michael Monroe, Ginger Wildheart, AMEN), and Jay Millette have reunited, bringing new members John Kerns (The Age Of Electric) and Danni Action (ACIIDZ) into the fold. The album, recorded in Toronto and mixed by Dave Draper (The Wildhearts, The Professionals), is a return to form for the band.
Guitarist Rich Jones explains,
“Reuniting with Billy and Jay for this new album brought my focus back to writing with a mindset that was pure, uncompromising Halos – as far as I’m concerned we’ve really achieved it. Having our friends John and Danni on board makes this feel like the strongest lineup that we’ve ever had and you can really hear it on this record. Additionally, Billy and I had always planned to call the third album How The Darkness Doubled. So it seemed natural to use that title now, 20 years later, for what I consider to be a spiritual follow-up to The Violent Years.”
Following a jammed-to-the-rafters show at the Bovine during Toronto’s Canadian Music Week and two sold-out nights in their hometown of Vancouver at the Rickshaw Theatre, the band is ready to win over a new generation of rock ‘n’ roll fans with their brand new album, How the Darkness Doubled.
Listen to How The Darkness Doubled below and learn more about The Black Halos via our Five Questions With segment.
Care to introduce yourself to our readers?
Sure! My name’s Rich Jones, and I’m the guitar player and songwriter with The Black Halos. I also play guitar and write songs for Finnish singer Michael Monroe.
Tell us a bit about your most recent release.
We’ve just released a new Black Halos album called How The Darkness Doubled. It’s a bit of a reunion for some of the original band members. The last time the three of us made a record together was in 2001. We ended up recording most of it at home studios during the pandemic, and now we’re getting ready to take it on tour in BC and Ontario starting in January
Where do you tend to pull inspiration from when writing?
It’s a lot of different places. I have a constantly evolving page of notes on my phone, little turns of phrases that I like, or maybe just a title that might spark some inspiration. I get a lot of musical ideas when I’m out walking, so I pretend to make a phone call and sing them into the voice memos app on my phone so that I don’t look like a total lunatic singing to myself on the street.
Do you have any upcoming shows you’d like to tell us about?
We’re in Vancouver and Victoria on January 13th and 14th. Then we head to Ontario to play Toronto, Hamilton, and London the following weekend.
What’s your goal for the remainder of 2022 and into 2023?
World domination!
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