the darkness are funny and really tongue-in-cheek and old-school rock style. i read a review of their album in "the fly" and it said something like, "the word 'subtlety' does no appear in the darkness's big book of rock. choruses arrive on continent-sized spaceships and guitar solos are widdled mercilessly from mountain tops. this album bashes you round the head with a les paul, gets you ripped to the tits on jack 'n' coke, and drags you down to a poison reunion gig on a harley-davidson." it also said theyre very much influenced by old-school and 80s rock/metal. im thinking of getting their album, it sounds good.