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Death Angel Release Album Artwork For ‘Relentless Retribution’

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14 years ago

July 1, 2010

San Francisco Bay Area thrash legends, DEATH ANGEL, have uploaded the album cover art by Brent Elliot White (Job For A Cowboy, Carnifex, Whitechapel) for their upcoming release entitled Relentless Retribution, to their official Myspace page.

Relentless Retribution is a full return to the bands thrash roots and will be released on September 3rd in Europe and the 14th in North America. The album was recorded at Audio Hammer Studios in Sanford, Florida with production genius Jason Suecof (Trivium, August Burns Red, The Black Dahlia Murder, All That Remains, Whitechapel, Devildriver).

Vocalist Mark Osegueda commented:

“I haven’t been as excited about the cover artwork on any other DEATH ANGEL album as I am for this one! It fits the whole theme of the album! Angry and aggressive! I think what excites me most is that Brent did the artwork based on our lyrics! It wasn’t an already finished product. When we first saw Brent’s work we were floored by the mixture of fantasy meets reality and we knew we wanted him to do the artwork for this album! In the end he surpassed our expectations with the fiercest DEATH ANGEL album cover to date! I haven’t been as excited about the cover artwork on any other DEATH ANGEL album as I am for this one! It fits the whole theme of the album. Angry and aggressive! I think what excites me most is that Brent did the artwork based on our lyrics. It wasn’t an already finished product. When we first saw Brent’s work we were floored by the mixture of fantasy meets reality and we knew we wanted him to do the artwork for this album! In the end he surpassed our expectations with the fiercest DEATH ANGEL album cover to date!”

Cover artist Brent Elliot White added:

“Originally the theme of this album was betrayal by those close to you and revenge against the deceitful. After a pretty spirited conversation with Rob and emails back and forth the saying “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” kept coming up. Basically we danced around that metaphor till it became pretty clear that a direct interpretation was the way to go. Illustrating betrayal and revenge in a single piece proved to be a challenge but as I received the lyrics to the songs things quickly fell into place.“

DEATH ANGEL will be direct support to Swedish melodic metallers SOILWORK this Summer. Joining them will be Quebec’s tech-death masters AUGURY, Roadrunner Records recording artists MUTINY WITHIN, and pirate themed thrashers SWASHBUCKLE.

DEATH ANGEL

07/07/10 New Oasis – Reno, NV

07/08/10 Club Vegas – Salt Lake City, UT

07/09/10 Gator’s – Farmington, NM

07/10/10 War Legion Underground – Amarillo, TX

07/11/10 Marquee – Tulsa, OK

07/12/10 The Muse – Nashville, TN

07/13/10 The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA

SOILWORK, DEATH ANGEL, AUGURY, MUTINY WITHIN, SWASHBUCKLE

07/14/10 Jaxx – W. Springfield, VA

07/15/10 The Trocadero – Philadelphia, PA

07/16/10 The Gramercy Theatre – New York, NY

07/17/10 The Palladium – Worcester, MA

07/18/10 FouFounes Electriques – Montreal, QC – CANADA

07/19/10 The Opera House – Toronto, ON – CANADA

07/20/10 Peabody’s – Cleveland, OH

07/21/10 Blondie’s – Detroit, MI

07/22/10 Reggies Rock Club – Chicago, IL

07/23/10 The Rave – Milwaukee, WI ç + THE CRINN

07/24/10 The Rock – Maplewood, MN ç + THE CRINN

07/27/10 El Corazon – Seattle, WA

07/28/10 Rickshaw Theater – Vancouver, BC – CANADA

07/29/10 Hawthorne Theatre – Portland, OR

07/30/10 Slim’s – San Francisco, CA

07/31/10 The Galaxy Theatre – Santa Ana, CA

08/01/10 Ramona Mainstage – Ramona, CA

08/02/10 The Clubhouse – Tempe, AZ

08/03/10 The Rock – Tucson, AZ

08/05/10 Emo’s – Austin, TX

08/06/10 Ridglea Theater – Ft. Worth, TX

08/07/10 The Warsaw – Houston, TX

08/08/10 The Parish – New Orleans, LA ç NO SOILWORK

08/09/10 The Club at Firestone – Orlando, FL

08/10/10 Volume 11 – Raleigh, NC

08/11/10 Headliner’s Music Hall – Louisville, KY

08/12/10 Gil’s Bar and Grill – Virginia Beach, VA

08/13/10 Sonar – Baltimore, MD

08/14/10 Diesel Nightclub – Pittsburgh, PA

08/15/10 Webster Theater – Hartford, CT

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“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

Published

1 week ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.

“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…