Dark New Day: Hail Mary

So these guys almost made it to the "Things I Miss" category in my blog, but as I did some digging into what Dark New Day has been up to, I saw they have been hard at work getting a new album ready for all the fans out there!  DND kind of fell off the edge of the earth, mainly due to Clint Lowery's commitments to Sevendust and his newer endeavour Call Me No One, aside from the label problems they were having with major label Warner Bros (originally slated to be released right after Twelve Year Silence, but due to DND being dropped from Warner the album never surfaced).  Respectable and valid, considering Sevendust is his main focus and CMNO is Clint's solo material coming to light.

Dark New Days consists of:

Brett Hestla - Lead Vocals, Guitar (guitar solo on "Sorry") | Clint Lowery - Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals | Troy McLawhorn - Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals | Corey Lowery - Bass, Backing Vocals | Will Hunt - Drums, Backing Vocals

So for those unaware, DND dropped a great hard rock album called "Twelve Year Silence", had some mixed reviews but was great for anyone who was a fan of the nu-metal/hard rock genre in '05.



Well luckily the DND crew had the rights for their sophomore album picked up by Pavement Entertainment and announced that the album will be available for a February 19th, 2013 release via MRI / RED in North America and SPV in Europe.

"I’ve been a fan of Dark New Day ever since I bought the debut at Best Buy back in 2005 (yes I supported my friends and bought the album!!). As their A&R guy I’m thrilled to be able to work “Hail Mary”, but as a fan I’m even more excited to let everyone finally hear this amazing album." -Tim King (Director of A&R for Pavement)

1. Goodbye 

2. Anywhere 

3. Vicious Thinking 

4. Simple 

5. Hail Mary 

6. On My Way 

7. Saddest Song 

8. Dear Addy 

9. Someday 

10. Fiend 

11. Outside 

12. Give Me The World

“We in Dark New Day are extremely excited that our 'lost' album is finally going to get the proper release and treatment it deserves. We're excited for fans to hear what two years of writing, struggle, and growth did for us. You'll hear a band that wasn't afraid to embrace experimentation and forge new sonic territory. You'll also hear a band at times grind out some of the darkest, heaviest, lyrically intense music of its career. This record is sonically amazing and we're very proud of it. We hope that this is just a stepping stone to another record in the very near future. Enjoy!" -Will Hunt

(Photo courtesy of Dark New Day)

It also seems that Examiner already got a hold of Clint and started to ask about the future plans for DND.  Here is a few of the questions that pertain to the "Hail Mary"...

Examiner: Reuniting Dark New Day took six years. What was it like listening to the songs and getting back together?

Lowrey: "They kind of felt new, going back and listening to them. I hadn’t listened to them in a long time. When we were digging through the archives, there were some we’d completely forgotten about, so it was kind of cool. We would write them and track them and stack them away back then. We didn’t dwell on them too much, so it was definitely a trip to pull them out and listen to them. They were kind of new to us in a way, and it’s cool that they’re still valid to us."


Examiner: Why this year?

Lowrey: "All of us in our different bands have people coming up … for example, with Sevendust, at the meet and greets, there was always someone every night coming up and saying, 'Man, I wish that second Dark New Day record had come out.' I was chitchatting with the guys because we’re really good friends and I asked, 'Do you get this?' They all said, 'Yeah.' That planted the seed to us talking about 'Let’s put it out.' In this day and age it’s easy to put out an iTunes release. We decided to do hard copies and digital packets. We tracked the record under Warner Brothers, and the songs you hear now, some of them were on that record, but they were the actual demo songs that we did that we turned in to them. But these are all songs that we funded ourselves. Once we realized that Warner Brothers didn’t have any kind of ownership over them, actually I leaked out a couple of them on iTunes. A friend of ours works at Goomba Music and they offered to get the songs remastered and released because this fan base still exists. All those variables kind of led up to 'Wouldn’t it be nice if we could release these songs on our own terms?' It was a frustrating time we went through with Warner Brothers because everyone there switched. The record company we signed to was completely different from the Warner Brothers we left."

Read the full interview here.  More information as it comes in folks.