Into Darkness (album)

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Into Darkness
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 1990
GenreDeath-doom, doom metal
Length46:08
LabelFuture Shock
Nuclear Blast (Re-issue)
Winter chronology
Hour of Doom
(1989)
Into Darkness
(1990)
Eternal Frost
(1994)

Into Darkness is the first and only full-length album of American doom metal band Winter. The album was released in 1990 by Future Shock Records.The first CD re-issue by Nuclear Blast America (distributed by Relapse in the US) in 1992 had only the "Into Darkness" tracks. It was later re-issued by Nuclear Blast as a digipak with an altered front cover and the Eternal Frost EP as bonus tracks. The album was re-released again, with no bonus tracks, by Southern Lord on April 12, 2011, on black and white vinyl as a gate fold LP with booklet.

July 8, 2013: The Village Voice blogger Jason Roche lists Into Darkness as #14 in the top 20 hardcore and metal albums to come out of NYC.[1]

Decibel magazine ranked the album at #13 in the Top 100 Doom Metal Albums of All Time Special Issue.[2][3]

Track listing[edit]

No.TitleLength
1."Oppression Freedom / Oppression (Reprise)" (Instrumental)5:57
2."Servants of the Warsmen"4:24
3."Goden"8:18
4."Power and Might" (Instrumental)2:44
5."Destiny"8:31
6."Eternal Frost"6:47
7."Into Darkness"9:26

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Top 20 New York Hardcore and Metal Albums of All Time". Archived from the original on 2013-07-11. Retrieved 2013-07-10.
  2. ^ [1], http://rateyourmusic.com/list/tomkrat/decibel___the_top_100_doom_metal_albums_of_all_time/.
  3. ^ [2], Decibel Magazine