Dark Angel (band)

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Dark Angel
Origin Los Angeles, United States
Genre(s) Thrash metal
Years active 1981-1992
2002-unknown (currently on hiatus)
Label(s) Relativity Records

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.[1]

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They released 4 demo albums until their debut full-length LP We Have Arrived was released in 1984. In 1986, Dark Angel released their album Darkness Descends which joined Master of Puppets (Metallica), Reign in Blood (Slayer), Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? (Megadeth), The Dark (Metal Church) and Pleasure to Kill (Kreator) as highly important thrash metal releases of 1986 and is now considered by many to be a seminal 1980s extreme metal album[citation needed]. At this time Dave Mustaine asked Eric Meyer to join Megadeth, but he declined in order to stay on D.A.

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.[2]

  • Gonna Burn (1983)
  • Demo II (1983)
  • Live Demo (1984)
  • Live Demo From Berkeley (1985)
  • Atrocity Exhibition (1992)

  • 3-Way Thrash (1989) (VHS)
  • Ultimate Revenge 2 (1989)(VHS & CD)

  1. ^ Hale, Mark (1993). "0705", Headbangers, First edition, second printing, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Popular Culture, Ink., 80-81. ISBN 1-56075-029-4. 
  2. ^ Powell, Mark Allan (2002). "Oil", Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music, First printing, Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 647. ISBN 1-56563-679-1. 
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Dark Angel
Ron Rinehart • Eric Meyer • Danyael Williams • Gene Hoglan
Don Doty • Jim Drabos • Jim Durkin • Brett Eriksen • Cris McCarthy • Rob Yahn • Mike Gonzalez • Mike Andrade • Jack Schwartz • Lee Rausch
Studio albums We Have Arrived (1984) • Darkness Descends (1986) • Leave Scars (1989) • Time Does Not Heal (1991)
Demos Gonna Burn (1983) • Demo II (1983) • Live Demo (1984) • Live Demo from Berkeley (1985) • Atrocity Exhibition (1992)
Other releases Merciless Death (1985) • Live Scars (1990) • The Best of Dark Angel: Decade of Chaos (1992)
VHS 3-Way Thrash (1989) • Ultimate Revenge 2 (1989)
Related articles Thrash metal • Speed metal • Relativity Records
Related bands Death • Dreams of Damnation • Oil • Tenet • Testament • Devin Townsend • Viking
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