Time Does Not Heal
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{{Infobox album
| name = Time Does Not Heal
| type = Album
| artist = Dark Angel
| cover = Timedoesnotheal.jpg
| alt =
| released = February 19, 1991
| recorded = September−October 1990
| venue =
| studio = Front Page Recorders, Costa Mesa, California
| genre = {{hlist|Technical thrash metal|progressive metal}}
| length = {{Duration|m=67|s=7}}
| label = Combat
| producer = Terry Date
| prev_title = Live Scars
| prev_year = 1990
| next_title = Decade of Chaos
| next_year = 1992
}}
Time Does Not Heal is the fourth studio album by Dark Angel, released in 1991. It is the band's only album with former Viking guitarist Brett Eriksen, who had replaced Jim Durkin two years earlier. Although they had worked on another album just prior to their breakup in 1992, under the name Atrocity Exhibition,[http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=16476 Gene Hoglan Says Dark Angel Reunion Will 'Never Happen'] at Metal Underground[https://www.voicesfromthedarkside.de/interview/dark-angel/ Dark Angel] at voicesfromthedarkside.de Time Does Not Heal was Dark Angel's last studio album for 34 years until their 2025 comeback Extinction Level Event.
Eduardo Rivadavia of Loudwire said the album was "arguably the last essential album released during thrash metal's golden era."{{Cite web |last=Rivadavia |first=Eduardo RivadaviaEduardo |date=2014-05-15 |title=10 Best Thrash Albums NOT Released by the Big 4 |url=https://loudwire.com/best-thrash-albums-not-released-by-big-4/ |access-date=2025-06-10 |website=Loudwire |language=en}}
Music
Time Does Not Heal saw Dark Angel continuing the experimentation of its predecessor, Leave Scars (1989), introducing elements of technical and progressive, otherwise known as "technical thrash metal".{{cite web|url=http://www.worshipmetal.com/features/6-of-the-most-mind-blowing-technical-thrash-albums-ever-recorded/|title=6 Of The Most Mind-Blowing Technical Thrash Albums Ever Recorded!|website=worshipmetal.com|access-date=May 13, 2021}}{{cite web|url=http://www.worshipmetal.com/features/20-of-the-greatest-technical-thrash-albums-of-the-1980s/|title=20 Of The Greatest Technical Thrash Albums Of The 1980's!|website=worshipmetal.com|access-date=May 13, 2021}} It includes songs that are more than five minutes in length, odd time signatures and more complexity; similar to its predecessor, Time Does Not Heal abandoned the occult-related themes of their first two albums in favor of lyrics about social issues such as politics, psychology and apathy.{{cite web|url=http://www.worshipmetal.com/features/the-10-greatest-thrash-albums-of-the-1990s/|title=The 10 Greatest Thrash Albums Of The 1990's!|website=worshipmetal.com|access-date=May 13, 2021}} Eduardo Rivadavia of Loudwire said the album "represents the apex of thinking man's thrash, while sacrificing not an ounce of ferocity while getting its point across."{{Cite web |last=Rivadavia |first=Eduardo RivadaviaEduardo |date=2014-05-15 |title=10 Best Thrash Albums NOT Released by the Big 4 |url=https://loudwire.com/best-thrash-albums-not-released-by-big-4/ |access-date=2025-06-10 |website=Loudwire |language=en}}
Release and artwork
When the album was released, it came with a sticker, reading "9 songs, 67 minutes, 246 riffs!", a claim later verified by drummer Gene Hoglan.{{Cn|date=June 2025}}
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/time-does-not-heal-mw0000268803 | title=Time Does Not Heal - Dark Angel | accessdate = May 13, 2021 | last=Rivadavia | first= Eduardo | work = Allmusic | publisher = Rovi Corporation}}
}}
Time Does Not Heal received a positive review from AllMusic's Eduardo Rivadavia, who gave the album a rating of four out of five, and called it "a veritable masterpiece of thinking-man's thrash metal." He continued: "With this true colossus of a record, the thrash stalwarts provided what many consider to be the definitive statement in progressive thrash metal. Just imagine what ...And Justice for All would have sounded like if Metallica had recorded it with the attitude of Kill 'Em All, and you'll get the picture. Led by drummer, lyricist, sometime guitarist, and principal songwriter Gene Hoglan, the L.A. quintet packed more riffs (246 total, according to enthusiastic press releases of the time) into this ambitious, long-running disc, than most of their Bay Area neighbors had managed in their entire careers." Rivadavia also described Time Does Not Heal as "amazingly brutal thrash metal album", and concluded that "its sound brought into crisp focus by Pantera and Soundgarden producer Terry Date in ways never achieved on the band's ill-recorded earlier efforts."
Track listing
{{track listing
| title1 = Time Does Not Heal
| writer1 = Gene Hoglan, Brett Eriksen, Ron Rinehart
| length1 = 6:40
| title2 = Pain's Invention, Madness
| writer2 = Hoglan, Eriksen
| length2 = 7:44
| title3 = Act of Contrition
| writer3 = Hoglan, Eriksen
| length3 = 6:10
| title4 = The New Priesthood
| writer4 = Hoglan, Eriksen
| length4 = 7:15
| title5 = Psychosexuality
| writer5 = Hoglan, Eriksen
| length5 = 8:56
| title6 = An Ancient Inherited Shame
| writer6 = Hoglan, Rinehart
| length6 = 9:16
| title7 = Trauma and Catharsis
| writer7 = Hoglan, Rinehart
| length7 = 8:22
| title8 = Sensory Deprivation
| writer8 = Hoglan, Eriksen
| length8 = 7:36
| title9 = A Subtle Induction
| writer9 = Hoglan, Eriksen, Rinehart
| total_length = 67:07
| length9 = 5:06
}}
Credits
- Ron Rinehart - lead vocals
- Eric Meyer - lead and rhythm guitars
- Brett Eriksen - lead and rhythm guitars
- Mike Gonzalez - bass
- Gene Hoglan - drums, rhythm guitar
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