In a brand new interview with Belgium’s Graspop Metallic Assembly, singer Mark Osegueda of San Francisco Bay Space metallic veterans DEATH ANGEL was requested what retains him and his bandmates going greater than 4 a long time after their formation. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “It is the love of the music. It is plain and easy. And also you’re born into it, should you ask me. Music grabbed me at such a younger age, and it is what’s pushed me my entire life. And as quickly as I obtained a style of it and realized that is a approach you may make a go at life, that is what’s at all times pushed me. And that is it. And it is the group. It is a style that nobody will perceive that is not part of it. It is like no different. It’s extremely supportive. Positive, there’s pleasant competitors, however I believe it breeds the perfect in all performers and all songwriters, any such music. It is nice.”
Final month, DEATH ANGEL launched its first new music in six years. In anticipation for the summer time 2025 “Summer season Of Wrath” European tour, the band dropped a model new track referred to as “Wrath (Convey Fireplace)” .
As beforehand reported, DEATH ANGEL will have a good time the thirty fifth anniversary of its “Act III” album by performing it in its entirety on the band’s tenth annual Christmas present on December 18 at The Fillmore in San Francisco.
In March 2024, DEATH ANGEL guitarist Ted Aguilar advised El Planeta Del Rock that there have been “a bunch of songs, lots of skeletons” for the band’s subsequent album. “We spent the primary three months of this yr writing. We did not do any exercise — simply writing… There is a bunch of skeletons, as we name it. There’s lots of concepts that we’re ready for [singer] Mark to place some vocals on.”
Osegueda is the featured singer on SLAYER guitarist Kerry King‘s debut solo album, “From Hell I Rise”, which arrived in Might 2024 by way of Reigning Phoenix Music.
Earlier in March 2024, Osegueda advised El Planeta Del Rock concerning the songwriting course of for DEATH ANGEL‘s subsequent LP: “It is going nice. And we’re enthusiastic about it.”
In a separate interview with Elevar, Cavestany confirmed that new DEATH ANGEL music was within the works. “I do not like divulging the ‘play by play’; I might quite information got here out when there may be substantial data to talk of,” he defined. “That being stated, I can inform you there are round seven songs we’re at the moment engaged on and I am at the moment getting deep into the writing zone, which is my completely satisfied place. If we are able to handle to cease saying sure to each tour provide (we like to tour),then perhaps we are able to lastly get this new album completed.”
Additionally in March 2024, DEATH ANGEL drummer Will Carroll stated that he was “stoked” about how the band’s new music was shaping up. “The inventive juices are flowing and issues are shifting alongside at a really productive fee,” he wrote on social media.
He added: “I am unable to anticipate the DA followers world wide to listen to this new materials and hopefully we’ll make some new ones alongside the way in which. Thrilling occasions certainly.”
In January 2024, Will stated that he and his DEATH ANGEL bandmates have been “arduous at work getting” the band’s subsequent album “written and fully demo’d.”
“It felt good to get again to work with Rob Cavestany,” Will wrote. “It is an actual problem to not rehash the identical concepts and beats from earlier albums however I believe thus far issues are sounding contemporary and impressed.”
DEATH ANGEL launched a reside album titled “The Bastard Tracks” in November 2021 by way of Nuclear Blast. Recorded reside at The Nice American Music Corridor of their hometown of San Francisco on Might 22, 2021, and streamed reside quickly after, “The Bastard Tracks” was described in a press launch as “a deep-cuts assortment of not often and by no means carried out songs from the band’s catalog” that was launched digitally and on CD, vinyl and Blu-ray.
In October 2020, DEATH ANGEL launched a four-song EP, “Underneath Stress”. The trouble included a canopy of QUEEN + David Bowie‘s “Underneath Stress”, adopted by a brand new observe titled “Light Stays”, plus acoustic variations of “Act III”‘s traditional “A Room With A View” and “Humanicide”‘s “Revelation Tune”. The EP was combined by Max Norman (OZZY OSBOURNE, MEGADETH, BAD COMPANY) and mastered by Ted Jensen (LAMB OF GOD, MACHINE HEAD, HALESTORM).
Launched in Might 2019 by way of Nuclear Blast, “Humanicide” noticed DEATH ANGEL returning to producer and good friend Jason Suecof (DEICIDE, TRIVIUM) of Audiohammer studios for the recording and mixing, together with the mastering of the legendary Ted Jensen (SLIPKNOT, PANTERA) of Sterling Sound, who added the ultimate touches and introduced all of it to life, with artist Brent Elliott White (LAMB OF GOD, MEGADETH) offering the ominous cowl paintings.
In March 2020, Carroll spent nearly two weeks on a ventilator in an intensive care unit at a Northern California hospital after being recognized with COVID-19, the illness brought on by the brand new coronavirus. He first obtained sick when he and the remainder of DEATH ANGEL spent greater than a month on the street in Europe with TESTAMENT and EXODUS as a part of “The Bay Strikes Again 2020” tour.
DEATH ANGEL was nominated for a Grammy Award for “Finest Metallic Efficiency” for the “Humanicide” title observe. It was the group’s first Grammy nomination.
Carroll joined DEATH ANGEL in 2009 because the alternative for the band’s authentic drummer, Andy Galeon.
