Through the Darkness by D-Generation

Through the Darkness, the third album from New York glam punks D Generation, came out on Columbia on February 23, 1999, their second for the label and, as it turned out, their curtain call for a long while. It is the only D Generation album without founding guitarist Richard Bacchus, with Todd Youth stepping into his place, and Tony Visconti, the man behind the boards for T. Rex and David Bowie, produced.

Visconti gives the band's punk-meets-glam-meets-garage clatter a shinier coat of paint without dulling the snarl: big, swaggering choruses, guitars that strut like they own the block. "Helpless" was the single, and it turned up in the film The Faculty. A month after the album came out, the band broke up, and it took 17 years for them to regroup and follow it with Nothing Is Anywhere in 2016.

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