- thrash metal
- 7 tracks
- Cobra Records
Darkness Descends is the second studio album by the American thrash metal band Dark Angel, released on November 17, 1986. Released at the height of thrash metal's popularity, Darkness Descends received generally positive reviews from music critics, and has been cited as a major influence on the death metal, doom metal and groove metal scenes of the late 1980s and 1990s. It is considered an essential release in the thrash metal genre.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and spare.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
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Tracks
- A1Darkness Descends
- A2The Burning of Sodom
- A3Hunger of the Undead
- A4Merciless Death
- B1Death Is Certain (Life Is Not)
- B2Black Prophecies
- B3Perish in Flames
About the album
- Artist
- Dark Angel
- Label
- Cobra Records
- Released
- 1986
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- CA
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