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A lot of 1980's thrash bands would like to make the claim that they were the fastest metal band on the planet, but unless they were named Dark Angel they were full of shit. From the release of We Have Arrived in 1985, the band announced their presence with authority. Becoming known by fans and peers alike as the "L.A. Caffeine Machine" for their lightning fast chainsaw riffing and Gene Hoglan's (who joined just after the debut album was released) maniacal drumming, the band were on the brink of their masterpiece.
1986's Darkness Descends is the fastest thrash metal album ever recorded, 7 songs in 35 minutes. Normally when you think fast, you think short tracks, but this record runs until the wheels fall off on every song, with no track shorter than 3 minutes and one track even reaching 8 and a half minutes. Vocalist Don Doty's growl punctuated with a shriek vocal delivery tackles the standard subject matter of Nostradamus, Judge Dredd and potential nuclear holocaust.
The Burning of Sodom is potentially the fastest song of that era, doing so without the help of a single blast beat. Hoglan writes the lyrics and Doty tacks each word onto the next in a frantically cryptic run on sentence, condensing 6 verses and 3 chorus' into an absolute blur, a Soviet ICBM screaming towards the ground and bringing about utter annihilation.
Bonus Riff! 2:11 mark.
1986's Darkness Descends is the fastest thrash metal album ever recorded, 7 songs in 35 minutes. Normally when you think fast, you think short tracks, but this record runs until the wheels fall off on every song, with no track shorter than 3 minutes and one track even reaching 8 and a half minutes. Vocalist Don Doty's growl punctuated with a shriek vocal delivery tackles the standard subject matter of Nostradamus, Judge Dredd and potential nuclear holocaust.
The Burning of Sodom is potentially the fastest song of that era, doing so without the help of a single blast beat. Hoglan writes the lyrics and Doty tacks each word onto the next in a frantically cryptic run on sentence, condensing 6 verses and 3 chorus' into an absolute blur, a Soviet ICBM screaming towards the ground and bringing about utter annihilation.
Bonus Riff! 2:11 mark.
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