Killing Season (album)
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| Studio album by Death Angel | ||||
| Released | February 26, 2008 | |||
| Recorded | September–December 2007 at Studio 606 in Northridge, California | |||
| Genre | Thrash metal | |||
| Length | 47:12 | |||
| Label | Nuclear Blast Records | |||
| Producer | Nick Raskulinecz | |||
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Killing Season is the fifth album by the American thrash quintet Death Angel, which was released on February 26, 2008. Produced by Nick Raskulinecz (of Rush fame), it is the follow-up to the band's first reunion album, 2004's The Art of Dying. Killing Season sold around 2,300 copies in its first week in the U.S.
On August 11, 2006, bassist Dennis Pepa spoke to The Gauntlet about the band's plans for a fifth album.
What we spoke about so far, we just want to really write what we are into at the moment. Not like we never do that, but we want to really focus on what makes us happy versus what people are going to think in the scene. With The Art of Dying there was pressure within the band and from our fan base to what they expected from us. So we wrote that album and we weren't as free minded as we'd like to be. With the next CD, it doesn't matter what anybody else thinks. As long as we think it's cool, that's the attitude we plan on taking. It will be heavy regardless; it will sound like a Death Angel album. I think it will be like, but not sounding like Frolic, but have the attitude of Frolic. We wrote that album regardless of what people would think and put out what we were into. It always seemed to be that obscure album. We just took that time period to the extreme and we wrote what we wanted to write and didn't care.
In February 2007, guitarist Rob Cavestany posted an update on the album. He writes:
We've been jamming out at our studio in Oakland, creating a new album which we plan to release later this year. Good vibes are flowing! Can't wait for you to feel it...
We're pretty much going to lay low on the live shows until we get the album completed. In fact, we did not plan to do any shows at all before summer but then we got invited to play in the Philippines! Pulp Summer Slam Seven takes place at Amoranto Stadium in Manila [on April 28] and we can't wait to hit that outdoor stage in the sizzling heat… it's gonna be insane!
OK, maybe one or two of the summer festivals in Europe; it's torture passing those up!
On September 8, 2007, Blabbermouth.net reported that Death Angel would enter a studio in Los Angeles, California on September 16 to begin recording the album and Nick Raskulinecz was confirmed as the producer.
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