Released November 17, 1986 Producer Randy Burns Artist Dark Angel Label Combat Records | Recorded 1986 Darkness Descends
(1986) Leave Scars
(1989) Release date 17 November 1986 Genres Thrash metal, Death metal | |
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Length 35:03
47:06 (Re-release) Similar Eric Meyer albums, Thrash metal albums | ||
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Darkness Descends is the second studio album by the American thrash metal band Dark Angel. The album is the first to feature drummer Gene Hoglan. Rob Yahn was replaced with Mike Gonzalez by the time this album was released, however, Gonzalez was given credit over Yahn on the album sleeve. Darkness Descends was also Dark Angel's final album to feature vocalist Don Doty. The album is considered a landmark in the thrash metal genre.
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Reception
In August 2014, Revolver placed Darkness Descends on its "14 Thrash Albums You Need to Own" list.
Icarus Records 2010 Remastered Bonus Tracks
Darkness Descends on Philiadelphia - DFA Live at the Trocadero, October 23, 1988
Darkness Descends on Resda - DFA Live at the Country Club April 22, 1989
Studio
Live
Song Information
The song "Darkness Descends" is about the comic book characters known as the Dark Judges from the Judge Dredd comic book series, and even contains their famous statement, "this city is guilty, the crime is life, the sentence is death."
"Black Prophecies" deals with Nostradamus.
"Perish In Flames" deals with a nuclear apocalypse.
Songs
1Darkness Descends5:49
2The Burning of Sodom3:16
3Hunger of the Undead4:16