“Afraid of the Dark” by Motionless in White

"Afraid of the Dark" broke a four-year silence for Motionless in White. The metalcore band had teased new music from the stage in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the previous November, then put this out through Roadrunner on January 28, 2026, right on their 20th anniversary, as the first single from their seventh album, Decades.

Chris Motionless sings it and wrote it with Ricky "Horror" Olson, Justin DeBlieck, Drew Fulk, Stephen Sopchak and Tom Hane; DeBlieck and Fulk produced, and Zakk Cervini mixed. Olson and Ryan Sitkowski play guitar, Justin Morrow bass and Vinny Mauro drums. It's a song about hard times that doubles as a scavenger hunt, full of nods to the band's older songs, which they pitched as tying their past, present and future together. It also gave them their first number one on Billboard's Hot Hard Rock Songs chart.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.