death angel

Over the past couple of years, countless '80s thrash bands, including Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Testament, Exodus and Overkill have experienced career resurgences and released some of their best material since before the dawn of grunge...

The Bay Area thrash scene of the late '80s birthed a handful of brilliant bands, but none have been as underrated as Death Angel. Whether it's their sporadic release schedule or the break they took through most of the '90s, the band hasn't been recognized nearly as much as their excellent material warrants...

When Death Angel formed in 1981, the band consisted entirely of cousins who had grown up together as kids in the San Francisco Bay area. The original drummer, Andy Galeon, was only 9 years old at the time for the Filipino-American thrash band...

After a handful of New England and Northeastern U.S. and Canadian dates to celebrate the release of the band's Relapse debut, 'Existence Is Futile,' Revocation were more than surprised a few weeks ago to get the call from their booking agent regarding Scion's desire to fly the band to not one, but two free shows sponsored by the increasingly metal-friendly car company...

This past week metal has shown that there is no rest for the wicked, and there is no mercy with first week sales. With a heads up from our dear friends at Metal Insider , Noisecreep caught wind of some interesting sales numbers. First week sales for Lancaster, Pa...

SHEER MADNESS: For the long time thrashers in Death Angel, they'll be joining labelmates in Kataklysm and Keep Of Kalessin later this month for the European "Summer Madness Tour". The tour will kickoff on June 22 in Pampalona, Spain and continue until July 15 where the tour will end in Tokaj, Hungary...

BAPTIZED IN THRASH: With the summer slew of tours starting up in the coming weeks, Wisconsin thrashers Lazarus A.D. have announced an upcoming tour with labelmates in Bison B.C. and Woe Of Tyrants along with Barnburner. Appropriately titled "Baptized In Beer Tour" the tour will begin early July in Canada and make its rounds until the beginning of August with their last showdate in Seattl

It's Friday, and you know what that means... we actually get to sleep past 6:30 tomorrow morning. Woohoo! It also means we're nearly through another exciting week here at Noisecreep. Ironically, the weather here in New York is awful. Rain, fog, cold...