ANGEL DUST - Enlighten The Darkness 2-LP (Black Vinyl)

People, this is it, one of modern Power Metal's finest moments. Angel Dust used to be a mediocre Thrash band, but the harsh and grueling sands of time weathered them into a tried-and-true Power Metal monarch with riffs, groove, power and intelligence to spare. While their previous two albums Border of Reality and Bleed were great, they were really sort of a transition, of which this album is the final product.

Angel Dust really hit home with this one, going miles beyond what anyone else was doing at the time in this genre, and honestly, I don't know if this album has been beaten yet, except by prodigal master-works like A Flame to the Ground Beneath and maybe Be Gone. Enlighten the Darkness is a seminal masterpiece of Power Metal, an artistic statement with few rivals in its field, and any fan worth his or her salt should get this as soon as possible. Essential.