Artist: Death Angel
Genre(s):
Other
Metal: Thrash
Rock
Rock: Thrash
Metal: Speed
Discography:
The Ultra-Violence (Remastered + Bonus)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Rarities
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
The Art Of Dying
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Art of Dying
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Fall From Grace
Year: 1988
Tracks: 11
The Ultra-Violence
Year: 1987
Tracks: 8
Act Iii
Year: 1987
Tracks: 10
San Francisco's Death Angel was a product of the bustling Bay Area slash alloy scene of the 1980s. Combining serious guitar crunch and velocity with a fair total of technological expertise, they created complex flail metal filled with time changes and tricky arrangements that, although generally loved by critics, unremarkably failed to translate beyond a very specialized buying public. But Death Angel weren't simply a band, they were kin. Formed in the early '80s by cousins Mark Osegueda (vocals), Rob Cavestany (leading guitar), Gus Pepa (speech rhythm guitar), Dennis Pepa (bass) and Andy Galeon (drums), the band was likewise precocious, having recorded their 1986, Kirk Hammett-produced "Kill as One" demo spell placid in their teens. In fact, drummer Galeon was exclusively 14 when Death Angel issued their first album, 1987's astoundingly mature The Ultra-Violence via Enigma Records. The following year's sophomore Romp Through the Park offered a few fragile refinements, most notably in the uncharacteristically humorous and accessible individual "Bored." Signing with the Geffen Records hit-factory the following year seemed like the succeeding step towards certain stardom, and Death Angel left zero to opportunity with their third album, nineties top career highlight Act III. But scorn benefiting from more sophisticated songwriting, greatly improved production, and an wide world duty tour to supporting it Act III somehow fell short of both band and label expectations. Fall down From Grace, a incautiously assembled live album released by Enigma by and by that year, proved both untimely and morbidly prophetical, when Death Angel were involved in a awful tour autobus doss in Arizona. Galeon was sternly injured, imperishable a yr of rehab during which Osegueda distinct to leave office music and locomote to New York. As for the left members of Death Angel, following Galeon's recovery they re-named themselves the Organization and released iI albums in the early '90s through Metal Blade -- Cavestany besides handling outspoken duties -- before breakage up in 1995. Numerous projects followed until 2001 (most notably Cavestany, Osegueda and Galeon's late-'90s chemical group Swarm), when Death Angel reconvened to perform at a San Francisco benefit concert for cancer-stricken Testament isaac Merrit Singer Chuck Billy. This, in become, light-emitting diode to sporadic European festival appearances and U.S. guild tours that bucked up the classic Death Angel formation to reunify more for good. Signing with Nuclear Blast and delivery in fresh musical rhythm guitar player Ted Aguilar, the stria released their long-awaited quarter album, The Art of Dying, in 2004.
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