Yeah, a more raw vocalist for sure, I preferred him too! I talked with Jim Durkin for like a week on Myspace, (when that was a thing..lol) and he also preferred Rob Yanhn over Gonzales, with Don on vocals! Evidentially, whatever quarrel the band had with Don, which led to his dismissal didn't affect Jim Durkin's relations with Don! But from what I've heard also, Don was too much of a party animal with booze and drugs and was too chick crazy, at least at a stand point of it affecting his rehearsals and performance with Dark Angel.
One of the best concerts I have ever seen....the brutality and the raw vibe of Dark angel is impossible to capture slayer or other bands back in the days...Darkness descends is the most chaotic thrash metal album of all time... can't wait till play it entirely in 11 July for first time in Hellas ( Greece).
0:48 Darkness Descends (Intro) 2:20 We Have Arrived 5:04 The Burning of Sodom 9:26 Welcome to the Slaughterhouse 14:41 Death is Certain (Life is Not) 20:30 Falling from the Sky 24:58 Vendetta 29:03 Hunger of the Undead 33:57 Merciless Death 41:21 Perish in Flames
I was still a 4 years old kid watching He-Man on TV at that time, I wouldn't start listening Heavy Metal before 1992, and got in the really mean shit (such as Dark Angel, for instance) by 1999, when these guys were already disbanded. Fortunately they reformed and I got to watch them live 3 times since 2013 (the last time being last week), but when I see the shows of the 80's and 90's of all the heavy, thrash, death and black metal bands, I can't help to think I was born too late!
@@MoreAwsomeMetal I just saw them in LA a few months ago. It was one of the better old school thrash shows of the modern area. They absolutely killed it and the venue allowed everything, stage diving included. It was insane. You never know what you'll get with the "old guys", but there are a few bands that still go all-out, and this is one of them.
I saw them twice in 1985. Once with Slayer at Reseda Country Club, and another show at some tiny, gutted out plane hangar (?) in Van Nuys, Ca. The 2nd show was absolutely BRUTAL. Stage was only about a foot high. Literally wall to wall moshing the ENTIRE time, and I mean getting hit with clenched fists while being pummeled by stage divers. Completely immersed. Most insane pit I’ve ever been in. My friend had to go outside. He couldn’t hang. 😂
This was when Gene was still working on the vocal arrangements of the new songs. Don sings the same verse 4 times on Death is Certain and skips the entire first section of the lyrics. I remember soon after this they started playing Black Prophecies live without lyrics. Ended up being a masterpiece of song writing. Good times.
In the mid-80s I saw Exodus, Possessed, D.R.I. and Death Angel live. Dark Angel was advertised but they didn't play that night. I finally went to see them at Fenders in 1987 but it wasn't Don Doty on vocals. Instead it was the other guy. Sucks I never got to see the only vocalist whoever mattered fronting Dark Angel.
+p4horror I was at that Jan '86 show at Balboa Theatre in LA w/ Exodus, Possessed, DRI and Death Angel too...Yes, Dark Angel did not play. I saw DA in Vegas with Don Doty then again in Summer '87 at the Country Club in Reseda, CA...Sacred Reich just got signed and supported them along with Viking. Glad I got to see them with Don twice before they went downhill.
Kevin Leonard Wasn't that a killer show! LOL! I didn't dig seeing that bouncer socking guys up though when they would slam up the crowd onto the stage. But yeah, that show was awesome, I still remember the details. Possessed was the highlight for me. The way they walked on and Becerra started yelling something out before opening with The Exorcist. That show was intense from start to end. In fact, most thrash shows in the 80s didn't have any filler bands on the bills. I went to shows where Hirax, Voi Vod, Pestilence; etc as the opening bands. Those were some great gigs man.
Yeah, I had to go see the Original Dark Angel at the Troubador! Summer of 1986! They were beyond freakin' glorious, small Club with a Full Bar! Sorry about ALL the "Suicidals" at Fenders, Olympic Auditorium, Sta. Monica Civic!
I used to listen to heavy metal radio show back in the '80s called Midnight Metal. It aired on a radio station based out of New Rochelle, NY. Six hours of heavy metal music every Saturday night! Anyway, Gene Hoglan came in for an interview in the Spring of 1987 (about six months after Darkness Descends came out). Gene said there had been misprint on the Darkness Descends album jacket. The instrumental intro Darkness Descends was actually supposed to listed as a separate track called "Harbinger Of Doom".
Saw them in late 80's at the Stone in SF, Darkness Descends tour & then few years later at The Cactus club. Got a signed Live Scars poster from the Cactus Club show. Darkness Descends is a masterpiece classic. The lyrics are so fucking well written, I remember reading them from the LP( which I still have)over and over again. Death is Certain, Black Prophecies,Hunger Of the Undead are my favorites. Darkness Descends goes in the top 20 all time best metal albums, maybe even in the top 10. Anyone who says otherwise is prob too young to know how epic this was in it's time or is just a douchebag and deserves to Perish In Flames!!
IS ONE OF THE FAVORITE BANDS OF MINE thrashmetal And WILCO SEE MY DREAM OF METAL FEST 2014 IN MY COUNTRY BUT FOR MY CHILE THE BEST TIME OF THEM WAS WITH DON DOTY! THE VOICE IS THE THANKS COMPADRE RAJA THIS VIDEO! GREETINGS! Greg Selwah
ES UNA DE LAS BANDAS PREFERIDAS MÍAS DEL THRASHMETAL Y CUMPLIRÉ MI SUEÑO DE VERLA EN EL METAL FEST 2014 DE MI PAÍS CHILE PERO PARA MI LA MEJOR ÉPOCA DE ELLOS FUE CON DON DOTY!! EN LA VOZ GRACIAS COMPADRE ESTA LA RAJA ESTE VÍDEO!! SALUDOS!! Greg Selwah
I saw Dark Angel at the Stone in San Francisco in 86, I think Vio-lence opened, and it will forever go down in my memory as one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Hung out with Gene and the band for like, an hour after the show, went into a tiny store by the Stone and watched Gene buy all of their pirogies, he offered me one but I hadn’t ever had one and I’m sad that I didn’t take one bc damn they’re delicious
no me canso de ver este vídeo esta la raja ctm!!!!! faltan 22 días para verlos aquí en mi país... y es su primera presentación mundial fuera de su país. de DARK FUCKING ANGEL y sera en mi querido país Chile!!!!!! the metalfest!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fuck yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......................lmL lmL
And they still play the same 12 songs. Love DA but it’s time for some new good material. There are bands from the same era that pump out new material that is killer like Flotsam and Destruction. Yet DA is that dark horse that every one clings to.
If you ever lieten to chris barnes vocals before cannibal corpse,,he was in leviathan,,he sounds just like Don Doty,,he wasted his vocal talent with cannibal corpse,,,imo
And Death Angel. Started in 1982 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Produced by their friend Kirk Hammet. Death Angel are of Philippino heritage and all brothers and cousins.
Dude, come on. This footage is pretty effing amazing, all things considered. You take what you can get from this era, and esp. from a band like Dark Angel. Hell, the cameraman is planted on stage left the entire time. Don’t be such an elitist.
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DARK ANGEL with Don Doty...they made one of the greatest thrash albums ever!
Don Doty's vocals are amazing, one of the best of extreme thrash imo
Don Doty was the best vocalist for DA
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@@CanalNimrod JFC that was fantastic!
100%
Yeah, a more raw vocalist for sure, I preferred him too! I talked with Jim Durkin for like a week on Myspace, (when that was a thing..lol) and he also preferred Rob Yanhn over Gonzales, with Don on vocals! Evidentially, whatever quarrel the band had with Don, which led to his dismissal didn't affect Jim Durkin's relations with Don! But from what I've heard also, Don was too much of a party animal with booze and drugs and was too chick crazy, at least at a stand point of it affecting his rehearsals and performance with Dark Angel.
Absolutely
Broke my nose at this show. Best night ever!
14:35 Death Is Certain baby!
29:00 Hunger of the Undead then Merciless Death!
One of the best concerts I have ever seen....the brutality and the raw vibe of Dark angel is impossible to capture slayer or other bands back in the days...Darkness descends is the most chaotic thrash metal album of all time... can't wait till play it entirely in 11 July for first time in Hellas ( Greece).
0:48 Darkness Descends (Intro)
2:20 We Have Arrived
5:04 The Burning of Sodom
9:26 Welcome to the Slaughterhouse
14:41 Death is Certain (Life is Not)
20:30 Falling from the Sky
24:58 Vendetta
29:03 Hunger of the Undead
33:57 Merciless Death
41:21 Perish in Flames
y qué me importa a mí esa weá
The 80's were a drug fueled hell for me, but being there for this music as it was rising gave me a reason to live. What a time, what a time.
I was still a 4 years old kid watching He-Man on TV at that time, I wouldn't start listening Heavy Metal before 1992, and got in the really mean shit (such as Dark Angel, for instance) by 1999, when these guys were already disbanded. Fortunately they reformed and I got to watch them live 3 times since 2013 (the last time being last week), but when I see the shows of the 80's and 90's of all the heavy, thrash, death and black metal bands, I can't help to think I was born too late!
@@MoreAwsomeMetal I just saw them in LA a few months ago. It was one of the better old school thrash shows of the modern area. They absolutely killed it and the venue allowed everything, stage diving included. It was insane. You never know what you'll get with the "old guys", but there are a few bands that still go all-out, and this is one of them.
don doty had a real peculiar vocal's style , that pefectly fit DARK ANGEL ... we ' ll give you merciless deathhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!
42:00 the way they kicked this guy off in sync at the hit is perfection
The best lineup of DARK ANGEL.Rules
I'm glad to see Don getting respect his vocals were so cool and aggressive top notch 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Amazing.
I saw them twice in 1985. Once with Slayer at Reseda Country Club, and another show at some tiny, gutted out plane hangar (?) in Van Nuys, Ca. The 2nd show was absolutely BRUTAL. Stage was only about a foot high. Literally wall to wall moshing the ENTIRE time, and I mean getting hit with clenched fists while being pummeled by stage divers. Completely immersed. Most insane pit I’ve ever been in. My friend had to go outside. He couldn’t hang. 😂
RIP RIFFMASTER JIM !
RIP JIM DURKIN
This was when Gene was still working on the vocal arrangements of the new songs. Don sings the same verse 4 times on Death is Certain and skips the entire first section of the lyrics. I remember soon after this they started playing Black Prophecies live without lyrics. Ended up being a masterpiece of song writing. Good times.
So brutal, so chaotic, so magnificent. Untamed aggression. A truck with no brakes at full speed. DFA rules!!
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Slayer
more like a freight train
In the mid-80s I saw Exodus, Possessed, D.R.I. and Death Angel live. Dark Angel was advertised but they didn't play that night. I finally went to see them at Fenders in 1987 but it wasn't Don Doty on vocals. Instead it was the other guy. Sucks I never got to see the only vocalist whoever mattered fronting Dark Angel.
+p4horror I was at that Jan '86 show at Balboa Theatre in LA w/ Exodus, Possessed, DRI and Death Angel too...Yes, Dark Angel did not play. I saw DA in Vegas with Don Doty then again in Summer '87 at the Country Club in Reseda, CA...Sacred Reich just got signed and supported them along with Viking. Glad I got to see them with Don twice before they went downhill.
Kevin Leonard Wasn't that a killer show! LOL! I didn't dig seeing that bouncer socking guys up though when they would slam up the crowd onto the stage. But yeah, that show was awesome, I still remember the details. Possessed was the highlight for me. The way they walked on and Becerra started yelling something out before opening with The Exorcist. That show was intense from start to end. In fact, most thrash shows in the 80s didn't have any filler bands on the bills. I went to shows where Hirax, Voi Vod, Pestilence; etc as the opening bands. Those were some great gigs man.
They were always too many suicidal hanging out at fenders ball room
Yeah, I had to go see the Original Dark Angel at the Troubador! Summer of 1986! They were beyond freakin' glorious, small Club with a Full Bar! Sorry about ALL the "Suicidals" at Fenders, Olympic Auditorium, Sta. Monica Civic!
Don doty uno de los grandes de nuestra historia
Don Dotys 's killer vocalist!
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@@CanalNimrod Un honor para ustedes, gran cover!... Bien Nimrod B. C. 🤘🏻!
Those were the good ole days❤
I used to listen to heavy metal radio show back in the '80s called Midnight Metal. It aired on a radio station based out of New Rochelle, NY. Six hours of heavy metal music every Saturday night! Anyway, Gene Hoglan came in for an interview in the Spring of 1987 (about six months after Darkness Descends came out). Gene said there had been misprint on the Darkness Descends album jacket. The instrumental intro Darkness Descends was actually supposed to listed as a separate track called "Harbinger Of Doom".
Rob Yahn on bass too, you can tell besides the long blonde hair by his playing style, Gonzales uses a pick, where Yahn played with his fingers
Don Doty is very best vocal on Dark Angel.
Gene was about 18 here. Absolutely insane!
Saw them in late 80's at the Stone in SF, Darkness Descends tour & then few years later at The Cactus club. Got a signed Live Scars poster from the Cactus Club show. Darkness Descends is a masterpiece classic. The lyrics are so fucking well written, I remember reading them from the LP( which I still have)over and over again. Death is Certain, Black Prophecies,Hunger Of the Undead are my favorites. Darkness Descends goes in the top 20 all time best metal albums, maybe even in the top 10. Anyone who says otherwise is prob too young to know how epic this was in it's time or is just a douchebag and deserves to Perish In Flames!!
Damn didn't know they played Cactus. I was at the Stone show , ripped!
Darkness Descends is #5 in my top 11 thrash albums of all time, ahead of Exhorder-Slaughter In The Vatican and behind Slayer-Hell Awaits
Oh yeah easily top 10 for me i listen to it all the time in the car otw to work
Don doty rules
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crushing,explosive & chaotic concert of Dark Angel 😊
This is fucking awesome!
old school dark angel \m/
Merciless Death with Don Doty 2020 : th-cam.com/video/FNsJiyLzE44/w-d-xo.html
IS ONE OF THE FAVORITE BANDS OF MINE thrashmetal And WILCO SEE MY DREAM OF METAL FEST 2014 IN MY COUNTRY BUT FOR MY CHILE THE BEST TIME OF THEM WAS WITH DON DOTY! THE VOICE IS THE THANKS COMPADRE RAJA THIS VIDEO! GREETINGS! Greg Selwah
ES UNA DE LAS BANDAS PREFERIDAS MÍAS DEL THRASHMETAL Y CUMPLIRÉ MI SUEÑO DE VERLA EN EL METAL FEST 2014 DE MI PAÍS CHILE PERO PARA MI LA MEJOR ÉPOCA DE ELLOS FUE CON DON DOTY!! EN LA VOZ GRACIAS COMPADRE ESTA LA RAJA ESTE VÍDEO!! SALUDOS!! Greg Selwah
Merciless Death with Don Doty 2020 : th-cam.com/video/FNsJiyLzE44/w-d-xo.html
1:23 you never see today's kids bang like this. Sick as fuck,.Saw them at Fender's in Long Beach back in the day.
Don Doty is God and a vocal inspiration as well...Him and Bill from Cryptic Slaughter....and Silenius from Abigor....
Merciless Death with Don Doty 2020 : th-cam.com/video/FNsJiyLzE44/w-d-xo.html
Rip jimmy durkin
Only Don Doty is real..
Yesss...!!!
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This is one of the few times they've played Hunger of the Undead.
Cool.
I saw Dark Angel at the Stone in San Francisco in 86, I think Vio-lence opened, and it will forever go down in my memory as one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Hung out with Gene and the band for like, an hour after the show, went into a tiny store by the Stone and watched Gene buy all of their pirogies, he offered me one but I hadn’t ever had one and I’m sad that I didn’t take one bc damn they’re delicious
For sure, one of the wildest and sickest gigs that ever happened on Earth.
Band+music+performance+audience united in insanity.
Saw the original line up in 84 at Fenders.
With jack schwarz ?
Don doty ruleeesss
To były KONCERTY...
No stupid cell phones!
The l.a. caffeine machine! True metal days,true metal gods! Long live dark angel!
no me canso de ver este vídeo esta la raja ctm!!!!! faltan 22 días para verlos aquí en mi país... y es su primera presentación mundial fuera de su país. de DARK FUCKING ANGEL y sera en mi querido país Chile!!!!!! the metalfest!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fuck yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......................lmL lmL
Puta que estuvieron guenos!!!
thanks for the upload!!
This is fucking gorgeous !!!! Extreme thanks ! Love it !
Had they just arrived? ... the intensity !
Aggressive,fast and heavy as hell! DARK ANGEL kills!
DARK ANGEL !!! 🤘👹🤘🔥🔥🔥
so great
Savage as fuck
Don Doty's new band Eliminate played live recently! CHECK IT OUT!
That was sick I saw them their Dark Angel songs were awesome! Got a pic with Don too
just FUCKIN GREAT DON DOTY BEST THRASH METAL SINGER/FRONTMAN!!!!!!!!!!!
DARK FUCKING ANGEL !!! 🤘👹🤘🔥🔥🔥
i saw them this year, opening for Slayer at the Reseda Country Club. (i think for $6)
Darkness descends line up live.Nice.
¡Dark Angel come to Uruguay!
Dark angel made the biggest mistake by getting rid of Don Doty !
Pretty sure he left them.
hi left them i thoght they kicked him out ! thanks for the info .
György Hirschléger
He left because he was about to get married and have a kid.
ok thanks !
They couldn’t deal with him anymore cuz of his drug addiction
Dammit every time I get all ready for Darkness Descends it ends up being We Have Arrived
THE lineup
great
EPIC bootleg
42:02 Amazing timing
🤟🤟🤟🤟
Don Doty 4reva 🔥
Merciless Death with Don Doty 2020 : th-cam.com/video/FNsJiyLzE44/w-d-xo.html
Hardly recognize Geno, especially without the glasses. Man he looks about 15 years old!
Fuck yeah \m/
DARK FUCKING ANGEL!!!
Wow! Iam stumped. Is this recorded in SVHS,or Betamax? Looks amazing, even if only viewed in 480p,on TH-cam.
The guitarist in denim looks like brian pillman
Anyone know where Brett Sarachek is? Or Brett Erikson as he went by in DA....
He didn't join until Jim Durkin left around 1990
And they still play the same 12 songs. Love DA but it’s time for some new good material. There are bands from the same era that pump out new material that is killer like Flotsam and Destruction. Yet DA is that dark horse that every one clings to.
16:06 he ded
MUTHA FUCKIN DEATH THRASH \m/ \m/
Drugs Destroy LIves...Right Don?
great meth metal
If you ever lieten to chris barnes vocals before cannibal corpse,,he was in leviathan,,he sounds just like Don Doty,,he wasted his vocal talent with cannibal corpse,,,imo
The Big 5: SLAYER, Dark Angel, early Metallica, early Sepultura, Bathory. Anthrax and Megadeth are so freaking overrated.
And Death Angel. Started in 1982 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Produced by their friend Kirk Hammet. Death Angel are of Philippino heritage and all brothers and cousins.
Horrible quality
Dude, come on.
This footage is pretty effing amazing, all things considered. You take what you can get from this era, and esp. from a band like Dark Angel. Hell, the cameraman is planted on stage left the entire time. Don’t be such an elitist.
@@slimgoodboogie2184 I'm an elitist because the sound quality is bad? how stupid are you.
We'll take what we can get. I'm not even sure there's any pre-1986 full concert footage of Megadeth out there.
Jeff Daniels rocking that bass!
Ahah