Produced by the band's vocalist Oliver Sykes and keyboardist Jordan Fish, it is featured on the group's 2019 sixth studio album Amo.
"[6]On 18 October 2019, the band revealed a teaser on their social media accounts for a video that used music from "In the Dark" with the caption "r u ready?"
[7] The video for "In the Dark" was released on 21 October 2019 and was directed by frontman Oliver Sykes and Brian Cox.
It was revealed that Whitaker was initially pinned to play the protagonist in "Mantra" but had to pull out due to scheduling conflicts.
Sykes revealed that Whitaker contacted him when they were about to shoot the video for "In the Dark" and everything then fell into place.
[8] Speaking about the concept of the video and his thoughts around it, Sykes told NME: "I guess it's meant to be a representation of the grieving process.