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sábado, 13 de diciembre de 2025

Death Angel "Humanicide (Digipak, Germany, Nuclear Blast, NB 4888-2)"

Humanicide is the ninth studio album by the American thrash metal band Death Angel, released on May 31, 2019. Like their previous three studio albums, Humanicide was produced by Jason Suecof, while its release marks the first time the band had recorded more than three albums with the same lineup.

In November 2019, the title track was nominated for the Grammy Award for "Best Metal Performance", making it Death Angel's first ever Grammy nomination.

In October 2020, Death Angel released an acoustic version of "Revelation Song" on their EP Under Pressure.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Mark Osegueda, except where noted; all music is composed by Rob Cavestany, except where noted.

"Humanicide" 5:42
"Divine Defector" 3:24
"Aggressor" L: Rob Cavestany 5:11
"I Came for Blood" 3:12
"Immortal Behated" 6:08
"Alive and Screaming" M: Ted Aguilar 3:36
"The Pack" L: Cavestany 3:33
"Ghost of Me" 4:34
"Revelation Song" 5:33
"Of Rats and Men" 4:08

Total length: 45:01

Bonus track

"The Day I Walked Away" 3:29

Total length: 48:30

Recording information:

Recorded and mixed at Audio Hammer Studios, Sanford, Florida.

Additional recording at Spiderville Studios in Oakland, California.

Mastered at Sterling Sound in Nashville, Tennessee.

Jason Suecof – production

Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound Nashville

Alexi Laiho – guest guitar solo on track "Ghost of Me"

Death Angel "The Evil Divide (Germany, Nuclear Blast, NB 3498-2/27361 34982)"

The Evil Divide is the eighth studio album by the American thrash metal band Death Angel, released on May 27, 2016. This album marked the first time since Act III (1990) that Death Angel had not made any personnel changes in three consecutive studio albums, and their third collaboration with longtime producer Jason Suecof.

The Evil Divide has received positive reviews. Kevin Stewart-Panko of Metal Injection gave the album a rating of seven-and-a-half stars out of ten and calls it "a seriously angry sounding metal album. It gravitates from fast, blood-boiling thrash to mid-paced thrash, a swing that may not seem so wild on paper, but within the context of the ten songs here, presents noticeable worlds of divergence between song sequences and movements."

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Mark Osegueda, except where noted; all music is composed by Rob Cavestany.

"The Moth" Rob Cavestany 4:38
"Cause for Alarm" 3:22
"Lost" 4:57
"Father of Lies" 5:05
"Hell to Pay" 3:12
"It Can't Be This" 4:16
"Hatred United / United Hate" (featuring Andreas Kisser) 5:17
"Breakaway" 4:01
"The Electric Cell" 4:38
"Let the Pieces Fall" 5:47

Total length: 45:13

Recording information:

• Recorded and Mixed at Audiohammer Studios in Sanford, Florida, United States during October 2015 - January 2016.

• Additional recording at Spiderville Studios, Oakland, California, United States during Late 2014 - 2015.

• Mastered at Sterling Sound in New York City, United States in January 2016.

Death Angel "The Dream Calls For Blood (CD+DVD Limited Edition Digipak, Germany, Nuclear Blast, NB 2986-8)"

The Dream Calls for Blood is the seventh studio album by American thrash metal band Death Angel. It was released on October 11, 2013, via Nuclear Blast. The album sold 5,400 copies in the U.S in its first week of release and reached number 72 on the Billboard 200, marking the first time in Death Angel's history that they cracked the Top 100 on the American charts.

Guitarist Rob Cavestany described the album's title as "basically our motto" and further explained that:

In our point of view the dream being our band and keeping the band going and making music for your life. The blood is all the sacrifice and all hard work that goes into it and that's the metaphor for that. It's not only meant for music. It's also meant for other people to relate in their own life and goals that they're trying to achieve and the sacrifices that it takes to achieve these goals. And along with that, there's also a tinge of aggression in there about other people that cut corners and don't quite go through all the steps it takes to achieve the goal the right way. So there's a little bit of a middle finger to those people that go about it that way and don't fully respect what it takes.

The album features a guest guitar solo by the album's producer, Jason Suecof.

The Dream Calls for Blood has been well received by critics. Writing for About.com, Neil Pretorius praised the album as "another triumph for a band that clearly still has a lot of gas left in the tank" and for "throw[ing] down the gauntlet to the thrash scene at large". AllMusic's Fred Thomas also praised the band for remaining a "powerhouse of tight and shiny thrash metal" this late in its career, observing that Death Angel "still sound visceral and hungry decades into their work, a rare case of a band getting sharper as it goes instead of mellowing". While Greg Pratt suggested in Exclaim! that the album's length was too long, he applauded the album's "super-tight rhythm section, killer guitar work and excellent vocals". Metal Forces' Neil Arnold noted that the album is a more "straight-laced" thrash album in contrast with the band's more experimental fare, which he claimed stands as "simple proof that Death Angel rules the thrash scene".

Tracklist:

Disc 1 (CD)