Equal Vision Records, Dine Alone Records and The Flatliners are excited to present the music video for ‘Only Darkness’, the latest single to be lifted from the band’s acclaimed new album, ‘Cold World.’ Watch the music video for ‘Only Darkness’, featuring footage compiled by Riley Taylor below.
“Sometimes the tank runs empty and the light burns out, and sometimes that firm grasp on your well-being loosens its grip just a little bit, leaving you feeling like a marionette missing a string,” the band says. “And sometimes you’ve got the right people in your corner to help you get back on your feet. The darkness of existence is always there waiting for us when the spark fades. Let’s all carry the light each other needs to see where we’re going.”
Additionally, Punktendo and The Flatliners released a brand new mobile video game to satisfy your need for old Nintendo nostalgia titled Cold World: The Quest For Inner Peace. Complete with an impressive pile of easter eggs spanning the band’s career, and the ability to play as each individual band member, The Flatliners invite you to go forth on this quest modeled after The Legend of Zelda. Play the game in full via Punktendo’s site HERE.
Maybe the greatest resistance that any artist can offer today is the radical act of stability — the same four people, friends since they were kids, playing music together because they have been compelled to for nearly their entire lives, 24 years and counting.
‘Cold World’, the brand new studio album from Canadian punk veterans The Flatliners, is the sound of a band free to make what they want with the people they want to make it with, to try to carve out some space to demonstrate a different way of doing things — a space where bands share credit equally, where friends grow and work together over decades, a space where stability is the reward for sticking to your vision.
That vision has evolved into a consistent confidence that gives The Flatliners the freedom to experiment with the edges of their sound while grounded by each other, locking out the decay of the world outside. The band fought through the fire of their last record only to find a landscape of debasement and erasure, and an increasingly cold world for all of us to live in.
The textures of ‘Cold World’ itself are anything but comfortable and familiar. The band’s airtight foundation of bassist Jon Darbey and drummer Paul Ramirez continues to drive with a learned, casual urgency on rippers like ‘Inner Peace’ and ‘Burn’, while Chris Cresswell and Scott Brigham deploy the controlled chaos of their shredding two-guitar attack, enveloping the listener on songs like ‘Pulpit’ and ‘Whyte Light’. As the album ends, we may be drifting out into darkness. But if we’re lucky, we can choose who we drift with.
The Flatliners will be making the following appearances in 2026 and 2027 – check out the dates below.
Upcoming tour dates:
October 23rd – 25th — The FEST 24 — Gainesville, FL
December 2nd — House of Blues — Cleveland, OH
December 3rd — Skullys Music Diner — Columbus, OH
December 5th — History (The Holiday Melee w/ The Bouncing Souls, The Suicide Machines, The Jack Knives) — Toronto, Ontario
December 6th — Bronson Centre — Ottawa, Ontario
December 9th — Higher Ground — South Burlington, VT
December 10th — Palladium — Worcester, PA
December 11th — Black Cat — Washington, DC
December 12th — Warsaw — Brooklyn, NY
December 13th — Union Transfer — Philadelphia, PA
February 22nd — Kavka Zappa — Antwerpen, Belgium
February 23rd — TivoliVrendenburg — Utrecht, Netherlands
February 25th — Gruenspan — Hamburg, Germany
February 26th — Schlachthof Wiesbaden — Wiesbaden, Germany
February 27th — WUK — Vienna, Austria
February 28th — Backstage — München, Germany
March 2nd — SO36 — Berlin, Germany
March 3rd — Die Kantine — Köln, Germany
March 5th — Electric Bristol — Bristol, UK
March 6th — O2 Ritz — Manchester, UK
March 7th — SWG3 — Glasgow, UK
March 9th — Limelight — Belfast, UK
March 10th — The Button Factory — Dublin, Ireland
March 12th — O2 Institute — Birmingham, UK
March 13th — Electric Brixton — London, UK