After years of talking about it, Dark Angel is finally set to debut some new material during a January 29, 2025 show at the Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, CA. The new material will be Dark Angel's first since their 1991 album Time Does Not Heal. No word on when we can expect a studio version of the new stuff, but here's hoping it's shortly after!
Dark Angel in 2025 is vocalist Ron Rinehart, guitarists Eric Meyer and Laura Christine, bassist Mike Gonzalez, and drummer Gene Hoglan. Notably absent is founding Dark Angel guitarist Jim Durkin, who sadly died in 2023. Back in May, Hoglan revealed in an interview with Rocking With Jam Man that the new material isn't trying to be old-school Dark Angel, but instead continue on their legacy as if they stopped being a band.
"I just wanna write a kick-ass metal album," said Hoglan "So what I've tried to do is not go back 35 years or 37 years or whatever, Darkness Descends or even We Have Arrived, those early albums, or Leave Scars or Time Does Not Heal, I've not tried to duplicate anything from any of those albums, but I tried to put myself in the mindset of what if Dark Angel just kept writing albums for the last 30-whatever years, 32, 33 years, where would we be at now? And so that has been my approach on the new Dark Angel material."
