Dark Angel (band)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article or section does not cite its references or sources.
You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. This article has been tagged since October 2006.

<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background-color: #f9f9f9;">Image:Dark Angel.jpg
Dark Angel lineup</td></tr><tr><th>Origin</th><td>Los Angeles</td></tr><tr><th>Country</th><td>USA</td></tr><tr><th>Years active</th><td>1981–1992
2002–Unknown (currently on hiatus)</td></tr><tr><th>Genres</th><td>Thrash metal</td></tr><tr><th>Labels</th><td>Relativity Records</td></tr><tr><th>Members</th><td> Eric Meyer
Danyael Williams
Gene Hoglan</td></tr>

Dark Angel

Dark Angel (also known as DFA or Dark Fuckin' Angel^{[citation needed]}) 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".

They released 4 demo albums until their debut full-length LP We Have Arrived got released in 1985. In 1986, Dark Angel released their legendary album Darkness Descends who joined Master of Puppets (Metallica), Reign in Blood (Slayer), Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? (Megadeth), and Pleasure to Kill (Kreator) as highly important thrash metal releases of 1986 and is now considered by many to be a seminal 1980's extreme metal album. At this time Dave Mustaine asked Eric Meyer to join Megadeth, but he declined 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.