★★★★★
"Death Angel's 'The Dream Calls For Blood' is easily the band's best album since 'Act III.'" "The Dream Calls For Blood" is the album Death Angel fans have been dreaming of since the band's 21st century reunion got underway. After several albums that failed to live up to the standard set by the likes of "Frolic Through The Park" and "Act III," the band has finally managed to create a disc that recaptures the magical mix of hooks and heaviness that made those earlier albums so great...
- www.metalunderground.com
2014-07-17
★★★★★
Some thrashers never die. Case in point: Death Angel, who are on album four of a surprising comeback spree of discs that have an alarming amount of energy and spirit. Opener "Left for Dead" rules, with positively hysterical energy levels and the chorus catchy as can be. Tunes like "Son of the Morning" showcase how absurdly memorable this band now are, demonstrating their many strengths: super-tight rhythm section, killer guitar work and excellent vocals from Mark Osegueda...
- exclaim.ca
2013-10-12
★★★★★
Sound: When Death Angel announced their comeback in 2001, after a reunion set for a benefit show, many metal insiders were skeptical of their intention. After all, at some point or another, many of the classic metal bands of the late '80s reunited to cash in on lucrative European festival appearances. While Death Angel did perform on the fest circuit shortly after they got back together, they also promised to write new material and eventually release a new studio record...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Always one of the classier, more cerebral bands in thrash metal, Death Angel has done an admirable job of resurrecting their career after an extended hiatus. Their first album in 14 years, 2004's The Art of Dying was a spirited return that reminded us all just how much better the metal world is with them around. Four years later, Killing Season saw the band settle down with a much more focused effort, the album benefiting hugely from the tasteful production of Nick Raskulinecz...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Always one of the classier, more cerebral bands in thrash metal, Death Angel has done an admirable job of resurrecting their career after an extended hiatus. Their first album in 14 years, 2004's The Art of Dying was a spirited return that reminded us all just how much better the metal world is with them around. Four years later, Killing Season saw the band settle down with a much more focused effort, the album benefiting hugely from the tasteful production of Nick Raskulinecz...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-17
★★★★★
"when you are used to hearing the crisp, clean guitars blaze through your Bose speakers, this album sounds like it's reluctant to be played" Death Angel's new release, "Killing Season," does more than contain over two decades of history in a band drunk on thrash. When the band came back with their release in 2004, I thought that it was going to be even more genius than what they had with "Act III," which had been their best effort, all the way back in 1990, when I was five...
- www.metalunderground.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
"Maybe Death Angel should take another decade off to stockpile more ideas." Death Angel has been a largely forgotten thrash band, despite releasing three critically acclaimed records and displaying impressive musicianship early in its career. Even in a piss-drunk-bull-in-a-china-shop genre in the late 1980s, Death Angel was not able to crack the thrash metal pantheon of greats before grunge took over a few years later...
- www.metalunderground.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
Sound: The latest Death Angel album with a re-vamped line up, a new bassist and drummer Damien Sissom and Will Carrol respectively, is a bit of a mixed bag. Death Angel have put out some solid albums in the past and in my opinion 2008s' Killing Season was one of their strongest efforts to date. Relentless Retribution is of the same formula but lacks the same urgency and power that Killing Season had, and I put that down to lack luster Drum work and at times average riffing...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Bay Area thrash metal. Those four words echo through 30 years of heavy metal history, influencing countless bands and many genres of metal. Your first thoughts probably run to Exodus, Testament and that other insignificant little band, Metallica (which actually began in South California, but transplanted to the Bay Area for their success). If you're a veteran of the day, or the area, other bands can be quickly named: Lääz Rockit, Possessed, or Defiance...
- www.dangerdog.com
2010-12-06
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