DARK ANGEL - Leave Scars CD

As awe-inspiring as Dark Angel’s second album, "Darkness Descends", was and is, it’s hard not to view this release as their masterstroke. For one, it’s longer, darker, and features far more involved and developed material. Does that mean it’s less intense? No way, bud, if anything it’s a more brute experience, only this time it’s emotionally disturbing on top of being a killer raw Thrash album.

Hovering right on the line where the attributes of Thrash cross over into the black abyss of Death Metal, the album and Dark Angel themselves are crafters of some of Metal’s most skilled examples of how brutal yet utterly musically impressive this music has the potential to be.