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1) Dark Angel was a thrash metal band from Los Angeles. Their over-the-top style (extremely fast, heavy and lengthy songs with lots of tempo changes, lyrics and extended instrumental parts) earned them the nickname “the L.A. Caffeine Machine” and the motto “too fast, my ass”. Drummer Gene Hoglan is considered to be among the best underground metal drummers in the world.
They released 4 demos until their debut full-length LP “We Have Arrived” was released in 1984. In 1986, Dark Angel released their seminal album, “Darkness Descends”, which, along with records such as Metallica’s “Master of Puppets”, Slayer’s “Reign in Blood”, Megadeth’s “Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?”, Metal Church’s “The Dark” and Kreator’s “Pleasure to Kill”, arguably made 1986 the peak of thrash metal. At this time Dave Mustaine asked Eric Meyer to join Megadeth, but he declined in order to stay in Dark Angel.
Two more studio albums followed, “Leave Scars” (1989) and “Time Does Not Heal” (1991), showing increasingly progressive song structures (the latter album famously containing 246 riffs) and Hoglan’s lyrics dealing with (especially for thrash metal) serious subject matter, often concerning psychological issues and traumas.
After breaking up in 1992, Dark Angel briefly re-united in 2002. However, Ron Rinehart’s injury forced them to cancel plans to tour and the band is on hold. Rinehart also formed the band Oil in 1997 after converting to Christianity.
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Darkness Descends
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Time Does Not Heal
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We Have Arrived
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Try to Join if you think you listen to Killer Metal! http://www.lastfm.de/group/Underground+Metal+Maniac%C2%B4s
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I wonder what it was like to listen to "Darkness Descends" back in the 80ies.
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Lucas_KIMB
Fucking Awesome!
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skoro1975
German old school (1988) speed/thrash metal band: - S.D.I. - MEGAMOSH mosh mosh mosh mosh listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SezopZSHK04
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'No One Answers' best ( ≖ิൠ≖ิ )
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j-yeags
too fast, my ass.
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skoro1975
A great thrash metal band from Sweden: HYPNOSIA Listen: http://youtu.be/jZxKs01Q2so
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Idiots-Rule
I take Darkness Descends over Reign In Blood any day.
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defnoob
WE'LL GIVE YOU MERCILESS DEATH
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metalinvader34
The Burning of Sodom!
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skoro1975
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SalvatoreEvan
Time Does Not Heal so fucking damn epic that Hoglan want don't want to make another album that will not be better than this one
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metal_gimp
I started listening to Dark Angel, and I started not giving a fuck! \m/
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Mazzerin
Darkness Descends.. one of the best thrash metal albums ever.
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Listen to the best thrash album of 2012! - http://voightkampff.bandcamp.com/album/more-human-than-human
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octopuss22
We Have Arrived and Darkness Descends are one hell of an awesome thrash releases.
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WatsonPepeLives
The L.A. caffeine machine
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Some of the most evil sounding music I've ever heard.
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This band deserve some attention.
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