The Alabama deathcore band tackles addiction and revenge. “How did we get here?” The first line of the first song on It Is Going to Get Dark tells you exactly how No Cure feels about humanity’s sorry state. After throwing that gauntlet down on “When the Spasms Cease,” vocalist Blaythe Steuer dives into his own deathcore rabbit hole on crushingly heavy songs about addiction (“Slowly Turning Blue”), revenge (“Brain Matter Displacement”), and the Alabama band’s commitment to straight edge (“Ironclad,” “I Am Still F*****g Straight Edge”). Special guests join them all over the record, from The Acacia Strain’s Vincent Bennett on “Purity Spiral” and Varials’ Skyler Conder on “Sharpen the Blade” to fellow sXe enthusiast Tyler Short of Inclination on “Ironclad” and rapper Jay Way on “Brain Matter Displacement.”