Artist.......: Death Angel
Album........: Hellfest
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Heavy Metal
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2015-04-25
Str.date.....: 2014-06-00
Quality......: 241kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.deathangel.us/
track title time
1. Hellfest 61:20
Runtime 61:20
Size 105.99
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San Francisco's Death Angel was a product of the bustling Bay Area thrash metal
scene of the 1980s. Combining serious guitar crunch and speed with a fair amount
of technical expertise, they created complex thrash metal filled with time
changes and tricky arrangements that, although generally loved by critics,
usually failed to translate beyond a very specialized buying public. But Death
Angel weren't just a band, they were family. Formed in the early '80s by cousins
Mark Osegueda (vocals), Rob Cavestany (lead guitar), Gus Pepa (rhythm guitar),
Dennis Pepa (bass), and Andy Galeon (drums), the band was also precocious,
having recorded their 1986, Kirk Hammett-produced "Kill as One" demo while still
in their teens. In fact, drummer Galeon was only 14 when Death Angel issued
their first album, 1987's astoundingly mature The Ultra-Violence via Enigma
Records. The following year's sophomore Frolic Through the Park offered a few
slight refinements, most notably in the uncharacteristically humorous and
accessible single "Bored." Signing with the Geffen Records hit-factory the
following year seemed like the next step towards certain stardom, and Death
Angel left nothing to chance with their third album, 1990's superlative career
highlight Act III. But despite benefiting from more sophisticated songwriting,
greatly improved production, and an extensive world tour to support it, Act III
somehow fell short of both band and label expectations. Fall From Grace, a
carelessly assembled live album released by Enigma later that year, proved both
ill-timed and morbidly prophetic, when Death Angel were involved in a horrific
tour bus crash in Arizona. Galeon was severely injured, enduring a year of rehab
during which Osegueda decided to quit music and move to New York. As for the
remaining members of Death Angel, following Galeon's recovery they re-named
themselves the Organization and released two albums in the early '90s through
Metal Blade -- Cavestany also handling vocal duties -- before breaking up in
1995. Numerous projects followed until 2001 (most notably Cavestany, Osegueda,
and Galeon's late-'90s group Swarm), when Death Angel reconvened to perform at a
San Francisco benefit concert for cancer-stricken Testament singer Chuck Billy.
This, in turn, led to sporadic European festival appearances and U.S. club tours
that encouraged the classic Death Angel formation to reunite more permanently.
Signing with Nuclear Blast and bringing in new rhythm guitarist Ted Aguilar, the
band released their long-awaited fourth album, The Art of Dying, in 2004. The
Archives and Artifacts box set arrived in 2005, collecting a few out-of-print
albums and rarities, and was followed in 2008 by Killing Season, a collection of
all new tracks recorded at Dave Grohl's Studio 606. Shortly after the release,
bassist Pepa left the band, replaced by Sammy Diosdado, an active player in the
Bay area hardcore scene at the time. Just months later, drummer Galeon also left
the group, leaving Cavestany as the only remaining founding member. Galeon was
replaced on tour with drummer Will Carroll and work began on 2010's full-length
effort Relentless Retribution. The group followed it in 2013 with The Dream
Calls for Blood.
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