ANGEL DUST — Into the Dark Past (review)

ANGEL DUST — Into the Dark Past album cover Album · 1986 · Speed Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Warthur
If you wanted to make an argument for speed metal as occupying a middle ground between traditional heavy metal, thrash metal, and power metal, Angel Dust's debut album could be Exhibit A for your case. Romme Keymer's vocals may occasionally be a little shaky, but the twin lead guitar assault he mounts with Andreas Lohrum is more than enough to inject energy and vigour into the proceedings here, with a hard, defiant edge to both the music and lyrics reminiscent of the more political moments of 1980s thrash whilst at the same time occasionally hinting at a more epic scope to the band's concerns suggestive of early power metal. Fast, thrilling, this is an exemplary piece of 1980s metal.
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