The Dark (Metal Church album)

The Dark
Studio album by Metal Church
Released	October 6, 1986
Recorded	1985–1986
Studio	Steve Lawson Productions, Seattle, Washington
Genre	Thrash metal heavy metal power metal speed metal
Length	42:12
Label	Elektra/Asylum
Producer	Mark Dodson
Metal Church chronology
Metal Church (1984) The Dark (1986) Blessing in Disguise (1989)
Singles from The Dark
"Start the Fire" Released: October 8, 1986[1] "Watch the Children Pray" Released: 1986

The Dark is the second full-length album released by American heavy metal band Metal Church, released on October 6, 1986. This was the last album featuring the group's "classic" lineup of David Wayne, Kurdt Vanderhoof, Kirk Arrington, Duke Erickson, and Craig Wells, until Masterpeace (1999), which reunited the four-fifths of that lineup, with John Marshall replacing Wells.