Artist: Dark Angel
Title: Darkness Descends
Label: Century Media
Cat #: CM54539
Release Year: 1998
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Jewel Case

Darkness Descends is the second studio album by the American thrash metal band Dark Angel, released on November 17, 1986.

Though bassist Rob Yahn appears on the album, Mike Gonzalez received credit in the liner notes. Darkness Descends was Dark Angel's final album to feature original vocalist Don Doty. The album is the first to feature influential drummer Gene Hoglan.

The song "Darkness Descends" is about the comic book characters known as the Dark Judges from the Judge Dredd comic book series, and even contains their famous statement, "this city is guilty, the crime is life, the sentence is death."

"Death Is Certain (Life Is Not)" deals with euthanasia.

"Black Prophecies" deals with Nostradamus.

"Perish in Flames" deals with a nuclear apocalypse.

"The Burning of Sodom" deals with the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah.

"Merciless Death" is a re-recording of a song from Dark Angel's previous album We Have Arrived.

Recommended if you like: Slayer, Vio-lence, Overkill, Kreator, Destruction, Exhorder, EvilDead, Sadus, Nuclear Assault

Track Listing:
1. Darkness Descends
2. The Burning Of Sodom
3. Hunger Of The Undead
4. Merciless Death
5. Death Is Certain (Life Is Not)
6. Black Prophecies
7. Perish In Flames

Darkness Descends on Philadelphia. DFA Live at the Trocadero, October 23rd, 1988
8. The Burning Of Sodom
9. Death Is Certain (Life Is Not)
10. Merciless Death
11. Perish In Flames
12. Darkness Descends

Darkness Descends on Reseda. DFA Live at the Country Club, April 22nd, 1989
13. We Have Arrived
14. The Burning Of Sodom
15. Death Is Certain (Life Is Not)

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