DEATH ANGEL - The Dream Calls For Blood

 

DEATH ANGEL - The Dream Calls For Blood

Nuclear Blast

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This album is solid, it has a flare or flame to it with sheer energy flowing.  These Bay Area thrashers have been active for quite some time!  Pretty much 30 years it's safe to say.  And they're still making good music.  This one isn't their best, but it isn't their worst either.  Quite a variety of sounds coming from acoustic guitar-work but mostly thrash guitar riffing.  The leads were decent, too.  But I really enjoyed the rhythms.  And the vocals of course!  They go well with the music.  Most of the songs are high energy!  They have that Death Angel groove to them as well.  Kind of like on their earlier work 'Act III'.  But not entirely.

These guys are killer live as well.  Too bad no concerts in Covid-19.  The band keeps making killer music even up until now. They're veterans, safe to say that. They still have that intensity to their riff-writing. I would say all the songs I liked pretty much. I think the vocals carry the music and overall energy to the record.  They really need to keep going in this thrash metal direction. And the riffs are pretty original sounding (like always). They change things up a bit but not that much. I like the guitars the tone is chunky. They don't need to hold back in their writing. They know exactly what they're doing.

The production quality was excellent it did them justice. And they didn't really need to change anything on here. I like the music the most but the vocals just have so much intensity. Not ALL THE TIME but a lot of the time.  Their tempos change up quite a bit which gives the music variety.  I cannot stress enough of the guitars sounding KING.  They're just so darn catchy.  The lead trade-offs too are phenomenal.  It's a sheer domination!  There's only a few places where you find some real screaming.  But not an overabundance of it.  The intensity of the guitars it goes well with.

This is a later album in their career as thrash metal musicians.  They're still killing it!  Support the band!  I got this on CD, but I believe it's on their Bandcamp page as well.  One thing to notice are the guitar riffs.  They're really catchy and original.  They're totally slaying!  This release is just sheer domination.  They really know what they're doing and how to make cool, original thrash metal.  There's an abundance of energy to the record that it just soars.  I liked this the whole way through the album.  Totally recommended for thrash metal lovers and support the Bay Area thrashers Death Angel!

Ryan “Death8699” Fanucchi