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Ron Rinehart
Person · male · United States · Norwalk · born 1965
American singer
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1960s
Biography
English biography158 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1309601145
Biography
Ron Rinehart (born January 25, 1965) is an American thrash metal vocalist. He is the lead singer for the American thrash metal band Dark Angel from 1987 (after the departure of previous vocalist Don Doty) until the band's dissolution in 1992, and again from 2002 to 2005, when they were reunited. In October 2013, Dark Angel announced another reunion, again featuring Rinehart.
Rinehart has appeared on three studio albums with Dark Angel – Leave Scars (1989), Time Does Not Heal (1991) and Extinction Level Event (2025) – and also performed on their live album Live Scars (1990). He also had a guest vocalist appearance on thrash metal band Viking's album Man of Straw.
After Dark Angel's dissolution, Rinehart and bandmate Eric Meyer went on to form a band called Hunger. They released a three track demo the following year. He has also played in the Christian rock band Oil, but left in 2004 to pursue other musical interests.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 5 | 32th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
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Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
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| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 5 | 32th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dark Angel(band) | 1987 | 1992 | |
| Dark Angel(band) | 2002 | 2002 |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dark_Angel_2014_2014-05-08_14-08.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3940988genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3940988seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Rinehartbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Rinehart
Why this artist is in the database
- List of thrash metal bands — rank #2
Dark Angel | 1981 | United States | | thumb|181x181px|Ron Rinehart of Dark Angel, 2014
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: User:Ron rinehart · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q3940988 · MusicBrainz: 2ba28b22-9412-4d7a-89d2-5df08295ce7f
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