Dark Angel is tagged as: thrash metal, speed metal, old school thrash metal, metal, thrash There is more than one artist with this name: 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... Read More About Dark Angel Biography...  Send Dark Angel ringtones to your cell
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