Death Angel

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thrash metal vets death angel continued their comeback in 2008 with the second album since returning to action it was called killing season we listened to sonic beat down meanwhile finland's best party band corporate clan he kept people jigging with the crovan caningus album Thank you.

I put people slowly caught on to what's shit Yeah.

The great death of our own Burn you all into oblivion Our time of beginning over and over again I know the morning's here, it's a proper time for me.

Venom? Okay.

What about, what's that Filipino, all Filipino, Death Angel? Are they speed metal? Thrash.

Thrash.

Okay, I'm in a different zone now.

It was interesting as I was naming the records to him, he actually wrote them down in front of me.

And I thought that was, you know, I wanted to go like, why are you writing those down? Um, and then, but then I also wanted to ask him, what are, what are your thoughts? But then I didn't want to, I didn't want to get into a rat's nest there, you know, but, um, it was, uh, it was great to have him on, you know, I did the thrash January a few years ago and it was one of my favorite themes of let there be talk, uh, where I just sat down with some of the ground zeros of thrash, Death Angel and Metallica.

And, you know, so it was really, really cool to have him on.

After I interviewed him, I asked him if he was asked to do it.

And it's just an honor.

I got Scott Ian right behind me and him and his son, who's in a fucking great band right now.

and you know so they're there it's just like the metal community is always so cool to be around you know every year there's some kind of event where you're around a lot of the metal community whether it be like my birthday bash or whatever that's always a great great reunion oh by the way I want to give you guys a heads up um hold on here let me get this there is a benefit for uh hold on i gotta get this dennis from death angel okay and it's going to be in san francisco and it is on what's the date of this fucking thing Let's see.

God damn it.

Other than Sepultura and...

Death Angel, were they Brazilian? Possibly.

It sounds like a Brazilian sort of name.

Well, no, you know Ractor and Deaf Kids.

As has members of...

Killswitch Engage, Trivium, The Black Dahlia Murder, Testament, Megadeth, Death Angel, Creator, Saxon, Diamondhead, Anthrax, Armored Saint.

I say both those together because John Bush was on this podcast earlier this year, or the end of last year.

That was a huge highlight for me as well.

And I look at it now as a 60-year-old man, and I see Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Exodus, Testament, and I'm just blown away.

Death Angel, how... bigger than ever, you know? It is wild to me, because I was there, you know? To me, it just seemed like it was like, you know, the heaviest, most outside-of-the-box music ever, and now here it is,

still going huge.

I think a lot of that is because of the, what do you call it, the genuosity? Is that the right word for the music? Because it really appeals to...

Wow.

Well, I will say, I like it better than 72 Seasons, the last Death Angel.

Yeah.

The, the last, I think I like it better than the last Megadeth sometimes.

Yeah.

All the Bay Area bands from Exodus, Death Angel, Vio-Lence, Forbidden, Heathen, they all reformed and still are.

So you know, I knew it's not just a story to be told, but it's something definitely I wanted to document because I thought it was an important part of my life, but a part of that thrash movement as well.

Did you find that, uh, your years of being a bully helped you be the fighter that you needed to be against that cancer?