| Into Darkness | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Winter |
| Cover: | IntoDarknessEternalFrostAlbumCover.jpg |
| Released: | May 1990 |
| Genre: | Death-doom, doom metal |
| Length: | 46:08 |
| Label: | Future Shock Nuclear Blast (Re-issue) |
| Prev Title: | Hour of Doom |
| Prev Year: | 1989 |
| Next Title: | Eternal Frost |
| Next Year: | 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]