Dark Angel
Credits, Sources, and Page History
This is where the history of changes for these webpages is kept, as well
as credit for those who have contributed in one way or another to the Dark
Angel webpage. Many thanks to those tireless fans who have helped me
out so much!
Webpage Origins
I originally started this webpage waaaaay back in the summer of 1996. At
that time there wasn't a single resource I could find on the entire Internet
about Dark Angel (other than an enormous number of search hits on
comic books and people who thought _DarkAngel_ was a great handle).
Now I really enjoyed the music (and still do) from the bands last album,
"Time Does Not Heal", which happened to be the only one I had. I
desperately wanted to find other albums and know more about the band. I
decided to start making my own homepage dedicated to Dark Angel
with all of the information I was able to collect about the band. Over
time I collected bits and pieces of info, initially from some newsgroups
and then later from people e-mailing me. Then I managed to locate several
Dark
Angel albums on cassette and expanded the depth of the page significantly.
After the pages reached a certain "boil point" there weren't really
many more changes. For about the past two years I've been working off-and-on
with updating the pages but haven't uploaded any of the changes. Finally,
in June of 2000 I uploaded the fully revised Dark Angel webpage
with new scans and re-scans, MP3 sound samples, a cleaner layout and a
lot of tid-bits I had been collecting but never gotten around to putting
up.
Thanks to everyone who's contributed, and thanks to everyone who's taken
the time to e-mail me with compliments! :)
Webpage Revision History
2000
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June - Finalizing changes, tweaks to layout. Prepping for upload
of new pages.
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March - Full upgrade and revision of all webpages. New material
added, updated and fixed links, re-organized lay-out, etc. Replaced all
RealAudio samples with better quality MP3 samples. Replaced images with
new scans and added some new ones.
1998
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June 19th - Updated page with material I had accumulated over
the months, including new interviews, resources for getting Dark Angel
albums, and more.
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January 12th - Made major layout changes, broke page up into multiple
pieces. Uploaded new pages.
1997
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December 28th - Started work on a new lay-out for the webpage
Includes fixing broken image links, adding interviews, various other contributions.
Not completed in one session.
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October 16th - Updated most of the RealAudio
samples with new ones taken from CD, giving much better quality
sound. Also added a new sample for the Fear cover off of the Leave Scars
CD.
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October 16th - Added new and improved Dark Angel samples.
Also updated a few of the in-line images with some contributed scans of
better quality.
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September 4th - Detailed info from Jack Schwartz on what he's
done since he left Dark Angel, as well as Jack's e-mail address.
Added trivia on Eric's doings.
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September 1st - Added info about Music Boulevard site carrying
"We Have Arrived" CD.
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July 19th - Added link for unofficial Gene Hoglan fan page. Trimmed
some fat here and there, mostly to reduce duplication.
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June 9th - Added info about Second Spin used CD website having
Dark Angel CD's. Updated Rumors and Trivia section with more stuff about
Eric Meyer.
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May 12th - Added trivia about other bands that Eric Meyer got
involved with after Dark Angel.
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May 9th - Added info about CD Banzai having Dark Angel CD's. Expensive,
unfortunately.
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May 6th - Confirmed that used CD's of Dark Angel are out there.
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March 29th - Added trivia bit about Gene touring with Strapping
Young Lad. Also added links for HTML forms of lyrics, donated by Bruce.
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February 22nd - Added four sound samples to the page, all in RealAudio
format. First approximately 90 seconds of the songs "Time Does Not Heal",
"Leave Scars", "Darkness Descends", and "The Promise Of Agony".
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February 5th - Few tiny corrections, added info about more lyrics
and guitar tab added to the "Lyrics" directory.
1996
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December 12th - Added some trivia to "Rumors & Trivia" section
(submitted). Changed "Lyrics" section to point to a new archive for the
band lyrics maintained by me since UWP's archive went belly-up. Added entry
for "Three Way Thrash" concert video. Other trivial formatting changes.
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October 5th - Added "Rumors & Trivia" section with rumor submission
from James Mullis. Also added text for an article/interview with Dark Angel
from an old "Metal Mania" magazine.
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September 19th - Added mucho images, with low-res inlines linked to
hi-res versions. Made some small corrections to band line-up info.
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August 28th - Added info about compilation album, more details
to appearance on "Ultimate Revenge 2", link to VOD issue #9, full listing
of tracks on "We Have Arrived". Re-organized page layout to create a more
complete and organized band history.
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August 22nd - Added info on first album, updated band line-up
history.
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August 21st - Started page from scratch.
Sources
Contributors
Tom Wren <deadmetal@aol.com>
- Sent me interview he did with Jim
Durkin in Metal
Nightmare.
fbassaler@aol.com - Sent
me nice, high-resolution scans from "We
Have Arrived" re-issue and "Leave
Scars".
Skye Girl <TheSkyeGirl69@aol.com>
- Contacted me with Eric Meyer's e-mail
address. Check out her modeling
homepage, yow!
Jussi Helnius <metalglory@hotmail.com>,
Arto Lehtinen <lehart@sci.fi>, <ysothoth@wsia.csi.cuny.edu>
- E-mailed me info about additional albums, singles, and collections that
Dark
Angel appeared on.
Jakob Skott <ccc10509@vip.cybercity.dk>,
Rob Preston <rpreston@baynetworks.com>,
Michael Mullin <Mullin.Engineering@misi.net>,
Swyko@aol.com,
aad461@firma.thezone.net,
netstar22@aol.com,
Don Hall <don@pouchselfstorage.com>
- Sent e-mail about other works that Dark Angel band members have
done, both pre- and post-Dark Angel.
Lisa Hoglan <LisaHoglan@aol.com>
- Sent me scans of alternative "Leave Scars" album and additional data
on Gene's current projects. Lisa is Gene's sister.
Ron Daniel <rondaniel@calvarychapel.com>
- Contacted me about his experiences with Dark Angel when he was
the vocalist in Viking.
Spike Steffenhagen <HrdRkSpike@aol.com>
- Submitted the interview he did with Dark Angel the day that "Time
Does Not Heal" was released!
vsuma@jad.ln.skoda.cz
- Donated a better, larger scan of the Leave Scars album cover.
Alert AOL User - I lost the email address, sorry. Sent
me mail about Second Spin website and Dark Angel CD's.
oberon@thezone.net, roy
<story@wdc.net>, and Bryce Kelaart
<bryce@profit.com.au>
- Contributed the information about Eric Meyers post-Dark Angel
activities. Bryce also sent me pics of the Speed Kills covers.
Christopher Kisielka <kisielkaman@hotmail.com>
- He let me know about the Dark Angel albums available from CD
Banzai. Thanks Chris!
Heath Schmoo <anthrax@nether.net>
- Gave me the info for the "Speed Kills III" entry in the discography.
James R. Mullis <jrm1@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Pointed me to the BNR
Metal Pages which had an entry for Dark Angel with an album pic and
useful info. Also pointed out that Gene Hoglan played with the band "Death".
Mike Gray <Michaelgry@aol.com>
- Submitted full text for three different articles/interviews on Dark
Angel. Thanks Mike!
chxi@geocities.com
- Provided lots more details on earliest album and appearances on other
albums, as well as on the line-up history. Gave me info on their compilation
album and pointer to VOD #9 interview. Also supplied me with scan of "We
Have Arrived" cover. Bruce has submitted shitloads of info for this page
and I really appreciate it! Also sent additional lyrics, many guitar tabs,
and HTML versions of lyrics files. You rule, Bruce!
Last Modified: June 27th, 2000
Jeff The Riffer aka Jeff Mercer / riffer@afn.org