We have another massive lineup playing Darkness Day this year! Our signature blend of metal, punk, rock, and whatever you want to call Impaler returns for another day of live, loud, and free music. Your rundown is below, but first you should pull up this Spotify playlist so you can have the appropriate soundtrack.
Strung Out
Our 2025 headliner is California melodic hardcore legends Strung Out. They’ll be playing their 1996 album, Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues, in its entirely, along with other favorites.
The Marked Men
American punk rock straight out of Denton, Texas, The Marked Men sold out Cloudland almost immediately last time through town. If you missed them or can’t get enough of them, come to Surly and see them for free. One of two bands on the bill featuring singer/songwriter Jeff Burke, the other being…
Radioactivity
With a lineup Like a roll call of Texas punk/garage rock royalty and led by Burke, Radioactivity returns to the Twin Cities for the first time since they played the Triple Rock (RIP) in 2017!
Bad Cop Bad Cop
Punk rock out of San Pedro, California. That’s a pedigree. Bad Cop Bad Cop release their fourth album, Lighten Up, on September 19th, and are stopping at Darkness Day on the midwest leg of their tour. The new record “started with having the girls over on Sundays. I would cook brunch, we’d drink tons of bottles of Prosecco, and we would write music together,” says guitarist/vocalist Stacey Dee.
Codefendants
Impossible to define by traditional standards, Codefendants were forged out of a desire to make an album that sounded like nothing else; a completely genre-fluid album, a cross between hip hop, new-wave, flamenco, and the Beatles. They were incredible at Darkness Day 2023, and we’re thrilled to welcome them back.
Iron Roses
Fueled by the injustices of our current times – Iron Roses songs are the kind of protest anthems that only a group of seasoned musicians could make. Still angry, still driven, and still screaming – this is a band that will never give up the fight.
Havok
Thrash metal at its absolute finest, Havok heads to Surly from Colorado. The ideal band to help scratch that Darkness Day metal itch.
Impaler
Impaler is an American horror-themed heavy metal/speed metal band from Minnesota. The band has a theatrical show which features fake blood, cages, coffins, latex severed heads, and a finale that includes a mock disemboweling of victims. Background vocalist, Dr. Corpse, bears a striking resemblance to Surly’s Zach Lindsay, returns to provide bloody, disgusting mayhem. (This is a compliment.)
God Came From Space
At the end of the last Millennium, Todd Petterson and Kevin Bigelow from Dumpster Juice were exploring new directions and outlets for their prolific output. Their efforts resulted in God Came From Space. Augmented by our very own Slayrah (19+ years at Surly) from Hot Karl and Sugar Freek, they refined their current sound with soaring dual guitar solos, a pounding rhythm section, and thoughtful, sometimes cryptic lyrics.
