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Time Does Not Heal

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

don't buy this from seller ships_first_class_daily, it will take forever to reach you and if you give him a bad rating he will harass and threaten you to remove it. Great customer service indeed. Anyhow just a warning to watch out for horrible sellers buy from anyone but him, if you want to hear this great metal masterwork within the next 3 months.

Peace Keep it Heavy!

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THE THRASH ALBUM! This album is the pinnacle of what all the mid to late eighties thrash bands were aiming at when trying to get more cerebral, more complex, more extreme.
Gene Hoglan (Death, Strapping Young Lad, etc) is the driving force, penning many of the lyrics and music (even playing a guitar solo) along with new guitarist for this release (Brett Eriksen). The lyrics are deep, intelligent, complex (get your thesaurus out!), and disturbing. The music matches. A sticker on the cover proclaimed "246 riffs" (haven't counted but I believe it!)...and they are all quality technical riffs (try playing a few!), not like the crap around today. Many of the songs are long and go through many changes, so you have to stick at it. Combine this with quality melodic as well as thrashy solos, melodic and barking vocals from Ron Reinhart, and the result is what I feel sums this album up. It's oppressive.
The production was handled by Terry Date of Pantera fame. He seemed to slow DA down a notch (well almost!), get a bit of a groove going, tighten up the noise and give the recording depth.
That said, maybe 4.5 stars is closer to the mark, there are a couple of sections that drag on a bit.
The highlight is probably the 9:16 minute long "An Ancient Inherited Shame", it is unrelenting high speed thrash with lyrics dealing with the emotional turmoil and psychology of rape...from a female perspective. Successfully. You can't help but applaud such an ambitious undertaking.
P.S. Did I mention the drumming??

This was unfortunately the last Dark Angel album but fortunately my first - this was the album that started a long obsession with the band and Gene Hoglans drumming in particular - yes, he is that damn good! All Dark Angel albums are classic but this is their mature effort - warm production, fast, intense multilayered guitars with some of the most thought provoking lyrics ever to grace a CD - period! It has to be said that the album has no duffers but prize mentions go to Trauma & Catharsis, An Anchient Inherited Shame and my personal favourite Psychosexuality - check those Bass Drums at the end!

I nearly shed a tear when I found out about their demise and I nearly celebrated when the rumors were circulating in 2000 about a reunion! they will be sorely missed! BUY THIS ALBUM

Yes, I can spare 67 Minutes of pure thrash from an underrated band.
What can I say about this classic album, well, Gene Hoglan has to be one of my favourite drummers right now, because he played with death, testament, old mans child and now with strapping young lad, I'd have to say that he did alot better with dark angel (especially in darkness descends), but not only does he play drums, he also plays guitar, nice job gene. Now on to the album.
Awesome Production By Terry Date (Who also produced Overkill, Pantera, Soulfly and Metal Church), and sounds alot better than Leave Scars (while still a good album, but suffered by poor production), the song are pretty lengthy but works well with alot of variation and (you guessed it) alot of riffs which run by intricatcy and time changes. As for The Vocals, Ron Rinehart can freakin sing, unlike Don Doty, he's alot powerful, stronger and...well... he can sing, maybe better than most metal singers out there (except Warrel Dane maybe).

Lets Have A Look track by track for highlights:

1. Time Does Not Heal: (11/10)A great start that accusticlly builds up into a total thrash mania.
2. Pains Invention, Madness: (10/10)Similar but better as the ending shows some of the most heaviest riffs ever.
3. Act Of Contrition: (9/10)A bit slower than the first 2 songs but has some cool lyrics and a great drum intro from gene hoglan.
4. The New Priesthood: (10/10)A bit faster than the previous track that features a guitar solo from gene hoglan .
5. Psychosexuality: (9/10)It was boring the first time I heard this one, but it's a grower, still a good track.
6. An Ancient Inherited Shame: (11/10)The longest of the bunch, and my favourite track, featuring cool riffs, cool lyrics and also the great vocals of ron.
7. Trauma And Catharsis: (10/10)Starts slow and builds up again into nice dark angel fasion.
8. Sensory Deprivation: (9/10)More mid-paced packed with more of the best riffs in the middle section.
9. A Subtle Induction: (11/10)The last song and a little bit more aggressive than the last few tracks which includes great solos from guitar duo Eric & Brett and more awesome riffs at the end of the song, what a great ending to an awesome album.

Sadly this is Dark Angels Last album and the last thrash albums of the early 90's(which grunge, death metal and CRAP nu-metal arrived into the scene, but now metal is stronger than ever), but if you want some pure sweet thrash metal, check this out now. You won't regret it.

Perhaps one of the greast examples of classic thrash music you will ever hear. This album is next to perfect and the beautiful brutality of this band was just amazing. If you want to hear one of the truly original thrash albums, pick this up.

IF YOU ENJOY HARD, HEAVY, FAST, TIGHT, DRUMMING THIS IS A SERIOUS CD, A MUST HAVE. THE SONGS ARE LONG, THE BAND IS ONE OF THE MOST UNDERRATED THRASH BANDS OF ALL TIME, ALSO HAD THE CHANCE TO SEE LIVE BACK IN THE DAY NOTHING SHORT OF PURE INTENSITY. GENE HOGLAN IS SOMEWHAT OF A LEGEND UP THERE WITH DAVE LOMBARDO IN THE THRASH METAL COMMUNITY, HIS FEET ARE INSANE. DEFINITELY CHECK OUT DARK ANGELS MUSIC, FROM A DRUMMING STANDPOINT ITS INSPIRING.

no one could agrue that dark angel had chops that could equal metallica,slayer and exodus but they never put forth this much power to match thier speed.this cd is one of my top 50 thrash cds of all time.the writting and musican ship are finally match and given a couple more years and cds they would have possible been the cream of the crop partily due to alot of thrash band getting lazy but dark angel had the skills for years to be contenders for the crown,but must over looked them till this cd

Excellent cd. dark Angel was always like a freight train, but the lyrics on this cd are awesome! Some great riffs (as usual) with better production than the previous cd (Leave Scars). was their swan song and a damn good one..

this album has many complex riffs that just kick ass. gene hoglan is a drumming god. every song is long as hell but never get boring. the title track,pain's invention madness,pyschosexuality,and the new priesthood are the highlights, well hell all the songs are great. i think this was the first album with ron rinehardt on vocals, man what an improvement. the other singer sucked really bad. i don't even like the other dark angel tunes because of him. buy this album if you are a fan of thrash/speed metal it's one of the best ever.

Good album by a good band. There are some great riffs on this album. Fave tracks are numbers 1, 5, and 8. Buy it.