Speed of Darkness

VINYL FORMAT. Speed of Darkness, the follow up to 2008's Float, is Flogging Molly's fifth and arguably most important album. In the words of lead singer and songwriter Dave King, "it wasn't the album we set out to write, it became the album we had to write." Produced by Ryan Hewitt (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and written in Detroit, MI, the album takes a hard-nosed look at the economic collapse in the US and the causes and effects it has had on everyday people. The Motor City serves as the album's muse and a painful example of what has gone wrong. While Speed of Darkness attacks much of the green and ignorance responsible for where we are, the album also delivers a message of hope, humanity, and the resilience of mankind. From their beginnings as a raucous pub band in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, Flogging Molly has worn their blue collar ethos proudly and loudly. Now, as the country, and the rest of the world, rise up to recover and rebuild, never has that ethos been more apparent and important than on Speed of Darkness.