Doomriders recently spoke with Noise Creep and confirmed plans for a new full length this year. Frontman (and [[Converge][ member Nate Newton) noted:

I'd be on tour with Converge, come home, and already have a Doomriders tour booked. In addition to that, our drummer, [JR Conners (Cave In)], and his wife had a daughter last year. So, obviously, he doesn't have the same kind of free time that he did before. So we just decided 'ok, let's stop playing out for a little while and actually write a new record. And we'll record it and once we have a release date we'll start touring again.' And so that's the plan.

[Darkness Come Alive is]] not as [much of a] 'party record [but] it's similar in that it was written by the same people, pretty much, so it's gonna sound like us, obviously. There's dueling guitars and lots of harmonizing, you know. It's a punk metal record. It doesn't have quite as much of the 'fun' vibe, I guess. It's a little more serious.

They released Black Thunder in 2005. Check out the rest of the interview here.