10 Metal Bands That Have Never Made A Bad Album

Considering how consistently brilliant their repertoire is, the Californian thrash stalwarts Death Angel really don’t get the love that they deserve. For over three decades, this quintet has been responsible for nothing but state-of-the-art speed, beginning with the classic Bay Area duo The Ultra-Violence and Frolic through the Park.

But it wasn’t until 1990’s Act III that Mark Oseguada, Rob Cavestany and co. really began to make their own, individual waves. Boasting acoustic ballads like “A Room with a View” alongside speeding belters “Seemingly Endless Time” and “Disturbing the Peace”, Act III was a great indication of thrash’s impending shift to more diverse waters, cemented by the arrival of such albums as Metallica and Countdown to Extinction in the following years.

Death Angel split after the success of Act III, but returned a decade later and, since then, have pumped out five albums of pure, undiluted heaviness, peaking with the two latest entries The Dream Calls for Blood and the inalienably perfect The Evil Divide.

With tracks like the slow-tempo “Lost”, Death Angel’s latest output is one of the best metal discs of 2016, hinting at some of the versatility that made Act III such a juggernaut of heavy metal mastery. Based on this album alone, these thrash veterans still have a tonne left in the tank.