Immediately after completing the recording of ?By the Light of Their Destruction,? released in 2019, Chuck Keller, the brilliant guitarist and compositional mastermind behind Ares Kingdom, began writing material for another album. He spent the next year working on a body of songs that he intended as a companion to ?By the Light of Their Destruction,? viewing the new material as an extension of the preceding work. Entitled ?In Darkness at Last,? the band?s fifth full-length is inarguably their most aggressive recording to date. ?In Darkness at Last? is not only a companion to ?By the Light of Their Destruction? and the culmination of Ares Kingdom?s recordings to date, it draws together the various threads of Keller?s entire body of work, presenting a unique and uncompromising vision of metal that remains unparalleled in both its breadth and quality.