Review: Dark Angel - We Have Arrived | |||||||
|
|||||||
We Have Arrived | |||||||
![]() |
Label: Azra Records Year released: 1985 Duration: 33:33 Tracks: 7 Genre: Thrash Metal Rating: Review online: October 21, 2022 Reviewed by: Luxi Lahtinen |
Readers' Rating How do you rate this release? Rated 4/5 (80%) (7 Votes)
|
|||||
Review | |||||||
Listening to Leave Scars recently got me in the mood for their debut, the aptly titled We Have Arrived. This was released back in 1985, around the time Thrash was pushing to get meaner and heavier with albums like Seven Churches, Hell Awaits, and Bonded by Blood, and I'd be willing to put this album up there with them. This is Dark Angel at their roughest, but it's still got all the violence and aggression that defined the band from the beginning. This contains some classics like the title track and "Merciless Death," songs that became live staples for decades, but I'd also say that "Falling from the Sky" and "Welcome to the Slaughterhouse" are just as strong, certainly worth putting on a set list at some point. Really, the only failing of this album is that it doesn't really compare to later material (well, that and "No Tomorrow" having a riff that sounds like it was stolen from Kill 'Em All, but that was probably unavoidable at the time), and overall, the cover depicting ghosts and ghouls haunting some poor bastard in a graveyard is as concise a description of this album as I could come up with. A strong arrival indeed. |
|||||||
More about Dark Angel... | |||||||
Review: Darkness Descends (reviewed by Sargon the Terrible) Review: Leave Scars (reviewed by Luxi Lahtinen) Review: Time Does Not Heal (reviewed by Sargon the Terrible) Interview with guitarist Jim Durkin on April 29, 2015 (Interviewed by Luxi Lahtinen) | |||||||
Click below for more reviews | |||||||
Latest 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Various Books/Zines
|
The Metal Crypt - Crushing Posers Since 1999
Copyright © 1999-2025,
Michel Renaud / The Metal Crypt. All Rights Reserved.