ANGEL DUST - INTO THE DARK PAST
DARKNESS BLOCKED OUT THE STARS.
Into the Dark Past differs a bit the regular German thrash release. It focuses more on sheer speed and blistering fast solos and a even melodies than the savagery of bands like Sodom, Kreator and Destruction. The album is driven by the insanely fast rhythm guitars that brings my mind to Helloween's "Walls of Jericho".
I find Angel Dust's debut to me more intense than the follow-up 'To Dust You Will Decay', it's also an almost completely different lineup on that album so that makes sense I guess.
It's full throttle from the first second to the very last on Into the Dark Past. Fans of Iron Angel and Living Death will surely enjoy a thrash album like this one. It's mainly a thrash metal album but there are hints of German Speed and Power metal here too. It might get a little repetetive when all songs are delivered in full throttle. So expect your neck to start hurting if you listen to this banger of an album too often.
Maybe Angel Dust never became more than a second tier thrash band in Germany, I guess that has to do with the fact that they disbanded after just two albums and when they returned they kinda ditched their thrash influences and went for a more typical German power metal sound. But if you ask me this is as good as anything that bands like Tankard, Iron Angel, Paradox, Vendetta, Assassin, Holy Moses and a few other German thrash bands came up with.
This is great stuff, don't skip out on Angel Dust, I mean how bad can a band be if they name themselves after an old Venom song.
Rating:
| INFO |
Label: Axis Records Year: 1986 Country: Germany Duration: 39:10 Tracks: 8 Genre: Speed/Power/Thrash Reviewer: Ruthless Rating: 4.5/5 | |||||||
| TRACKS | LINEUP | ||||||
| Romme Keymer - Vocals Andreas Lohrum - Guitars Frank Banx - Bass Dirk Assmuth - Drums |
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