DARK ANGEL To Debut First New Music In Extra Than Three A long time Throughout Los Angeles Live performance

Reunited California thrash metallic pioneers DARK ANGEL will play new music for the primary time since 1991 throughout their January 29, 2025 live performance on the Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, California.

This previous July, DARK ANGEL formally entered the studio to start recording its long-awaited new album. Two months earlier, DARK ANGEL drummer Gene Hoglan informed Rocking With Jam Man that he had “been working diligently for the final couple of years on some initiatives which are gonna make DARK ANGEL followers actually glad, I believe. So, everyone, simply sit tight,” he stated. “I simply do not wanna nebulously announce one thing after which have circumstances past my management come alongside and make issues delayed. I simply wanna find a way to have the ability to say, ‘Sure, that is gonna be a strong date that we will announce for folks, and we’re gonna have the ability to stick with that date.’ That is what I am all about. So, preserve your eyes and ears peeled, everyone.”

Requested what it has been like making new DARK ANGEL music greater than 30 years after the discharge of the band’s final album, 1991’s “Time Does Not Heal”, Gene responded: “Effectively, that is one factor. It is like we had a alternative. I had a complete DARK ANGEL album written that was prepared to start out getting recorded after the ‘Time Does Not Heal’ file, and circumstances occurred the place the band simply needed to dissolve. So, I had a bunch of fabric written. And when [DARK ANGEL guitarist] Jim Durkin and myself — Jim is not with us, however once we put DARK ANGEL again collectively and we began speaking about, like, ‘What will we wanna do for the long run? Will we wanna write some new materials?’ And ‘I’ve received some concepts, Gene, and also you most likely have some concepts.’ And I’ve plenty of songs that I despatched to Jim. And when Jim heard that — I despatched it to him on a CD — he freaked out and he was, like, ‘My God, here is our new album. That is gonna be our subsequent file. Hell yeah.’ And he received actually enthusiastic about that materials. However I used to be, like, ‘Hey, Jim, let you know what. I really feel actually strongly about my writing chops, and the songs I am listening to from you proper now are crushing. So how about we simply write new stuff, get collectively and begin writing new materials?’ And so we form of went that route.”

He continued: “For my parts of what I needed DARK ANGEL to sound like, Jim Durkin is a large affect on my writing type. So I needed this to have a number of the Jim Durkin affect on it. By way of riffs, there’s not as many from Jim as we had been hoping for, however Jim‘s whole presence is everywhere in the new DARK ANGEL materials that I have been engaged on. And he is an enormous guitar affect on me, in addition to lots of people. So, there’s undoubtedly gonna be a reasonably hardy Jim Durkin affect. And I simply wanna write a kick-ass metallic album. So what I’ve tried to do shouldn’t be return 35 years or 37 years or no matter, ‘Darkness Descends’ and even ‘We Have Arrived’, these early albums, or ‘Depart Scars’ or ‘Time Does Not Heal’, I’ve not tried to duplicate something from any of these albums, however I attempted to place myself within the mindset of what if DARK ANGEL simply stored writing albums for the final 30-whatever years, 32, 33 years, the place would we be at now? And in order that has been my strategy on the brand new DARK ANGEL materials.”

Durkin died on March 8, 2023 on the age of 58. An unique member of DARK ANGEL, Durkin performed on the band’s first three albums — 1985’s “We Have Arrived”, 1986’s “Darkness Descends” and 1989’s “Depart Scars” — earlier than departing the group in 1989. He was a part of DARK ANGEL‘s lineup when the band reformed in 2013, and had been enjoying with them, on and off, ever since.

Previous to his loss of life, Durkin had been sitting out a few of DARK ANGEL‘s gigs. He was changed on the exhibits by Hoglan‘s spouse Laura Christine, who has since joined DARK ANGEL as a everlasting member.

DARK ANGEL launched two albums with Don Doty on vocals — the aforementioned “We Have Arrived” and “Darkness Descends” — earlier than he exited the group and was changed by Ron Rinehart (after a short stint with Jim Drabos in 1987). The band issued two extra studio LPs — “Depart Scars” and “Time Does Not Heal” — earlier than calling it quits in 1992.

Hoglan beforehand talked about DARK ANGEL‘s upcoming LP in Might 2023 in an interview with Friday thirteenth. He stated on the time: “Jim and I, we had gotten collectively plenty of occasions to put in writing some new materials for DARK ANGEL. And we weren’t in a position to get it down on tape an excessive amount of. If DARK ANGELhas any new materials, there is a music that he is received on there that’s fairly darn DARK ANGEL-esque.

“In tribute to Jim, DARK ANGEL‘s new materials may have a ton of his spirit throughout it — his really feel. Whether or not he really wrote stuff on the brand new stuff or not, his spirit is very there. His imprint is felt all through thrash metallic, I really feel. Even earlier than I used to be in DARK ANGEL, I might see Jim‘s affect on bands. Completely. So his legacy will dwell forevermore within the realm of utmost metallic. His type will at all times be part of DARK ANGEL, completely, large time.”

Requested how the subsequent DARK ANGEL album will evaluate to the band’s earlier efforts, Hoglan stated: “Effectively, I can not actually even touch upon the truth that there would possibly or won’t be an album but. However put it this manner — if I had been to have any new DARK ANGEL materials, I might need it to be an extension of the place the band is at now and the place I am at now. And I might most likely strategy the writing of it in a manner as if DARK ANGEL by no means disappeared for a decade, 20 years, three many years, or no matter it has been. It is identical to we simply stored doing what we do, and this could be the place we’re at proper now. Which I might wish to be placing out essentially the most savage, heaviest materials that DARK ANGEL might. And I am no slouch with writing psychotic, heavy materials. So I might be very, very excited with the place DARK ANGEL‘s new materials can be if that might have the ability to verify.”