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Death Angel was formed in 1982 by cousins, guitarists Rob Cavestany and Gus Pepa, bassist Dennis Pepa and drummer Andy Galeon. Mark Osegueda, who is second cousin to the founding members and was their roadie, joined as the vocalist in 1984…

While the pandemic was reaping havoc upon the live music market, Bay Area thrash extraordinaire Death Angel was taking the opportunity to deliver an assortment of bangers and deep cuts via live stream with the fury of a thousand suns, and the results have now been codified in physical form for man and thrashing beast alike…

Death Angel was formed in 1982 by cousins, guitarists Rob Cavestany and Gus Pepa, bassist Dennis Pepa and drummer Andy Galeon. Mark Osegueda, who is second cousin to the founding members and was their roadie, joined as the vocalist in 1984…

Death Angel is an American thrash metal band from Daly City, California, initially active from 1982 to 1991 and again since 2001. Death Angel has released eight studio albums, two demo tapes, one box set and two live albums. The band has gone through several line-up changes, leaving guitarist Rob Cavestany as the only constant member; he and vocalist Mark Osegueda (who joined the group in 1984) are the only members of Death Angel to appear on all of their studio albums…

Despite its title, a play on a track from their 2008 album Killing Season, Death Angel's Sonic German Beatdown features not one song from that disc; it was recorded at the Rock Hard Festival in 2007, so the set focuses very heavily on the group's first three albums (four tracks from The Ultra-Violence, two from Frolic in the Park, and four from Act III), tossing in four cuts from the then-newish The Art of Dying…