Album · Stabbing Westward
Darkest Days by Stabbing Westward
Darkest Days is an album by Stabbing Westward, released in 1998. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 44 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Save Yourself”, on 36 lists with a best position of #8.
Darkest Days, Stabbing Westward's third album, came out on Columbia on April 7, 1998, after sessions in Los Angeles the year before with Dave Jerden producing. It's a breakup record built like a four-act play: first the relationship gets sabotaged, then comes a stretch of lust, hope and longing, then the crash to rock bottom, and finally the climb back toward self-respect.
Christopher Hall howls through the whole ordeal over a wall of grinding industrial guitars and cold keyboards, with Walter Flakus on keys, Jim Sellers on bass, Mark Eliopulos on guitar and Andy Kubiszewski on drums making it land like a wrecking ball. "Save Yourself" climbed to number 4 on the Mainstream Rock chart, higher than anything else they ever put there. The album didn't sell like Wither Blister Burn & Peel, though it still went gold, drew good reviews and is often called their best. Columbia dropped them in 2000 anyway.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Darkest Days on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Save Yourself | 36 | #8 | – | 1998–2026 | |
| 2 | Sometimes It Hurts | 8 | #75 | – | 1998–2005 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.