Black Halo has released a new song, “Darkness Falls,” to all streaming platforms. You can hear from this link.
“Darkness Falls” touches on the struggle to pull someone out of the darkness inside them.
Rock bands have come a long way from the 60s and 70s, when most songs about drug use were celebratory. Maybe that made some sense with recreational drugs like marijuana, but the hard-core stuff was always there killing people, including some of those rock stars gone too soon. It’s been a long time since it was cool to sing about drugs and alcohol as if to encourage overindulgence.
Too many people are dead. Or their lives are ruined. And we might know or even be one of them. And yet despite all the awareness of addiction, the drug problem has hardly gone away. There’s often something deeper driving it: despair, hopelessness, and pain. And those feelings are shared by those watching someone vanish into the darkness of substance abuse.
Black Halo’s latest single, “Darkness Falls,” focuses on this problem of trying to get someone we love to stop indulging because it’s destroying them, and part of us along with them. It’s part of the band’s concept album, Utopia, which tells the story of two young people struggling through their respective miseries. The man has his own problems, but his inability to help the woman he loves overcome her addiction worsens his turmoil.
“We know it can be hard to reach people,” says guitarist and songwriter Randy Ellefson, who lost a co-worker to suicide in 2023. “Maybe a song won’t do it, but it does happen, and it has for me before when lyrics resonated with me. I’d rather take the approach of encouraging people to find another way to deal with the darkness inside them, because drugs and alcohol are likely to only make it darker.”
The song is available on all streaming platforms on October 16, 2025, and the official lyric video is at YouTube: https://youtu.be/7BZIlF-sN8w