San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal veterans DEATH ANGEL have unveiled a new single, “The Never Was”, along with an official lyric visualizer. The release comes as the band gears up for an extensive international touring schedule, featuring upcoming dates across Europe and Australia, as well as their traditional annual holiday shows.
Packed with the speed, precision and raw aggression that have characterized their sound for over four decades, “The Never Was” is another powerful dose of uncompromising thrash metal, reaffirming DEATH ANGEL’s status as one of the genre’s most enduring and influential bands.
Vocalist Mark Osegueda comments: “We’re excited to unleash a brand new DEATH ANGEL track called ‘The Never Was’! Lyrically, it’s inspired by self-centered people that feel the need to make every conversation, tragedy, including someone else’s success or even death, all about themselves. Without fail, they do it time and again. They truly think they are glorious in every way. Especially now with social media, they have a bigger outlet and platform to glorify what they feel is their brilliance and/or opinion on the matter while always circling back to themselves. Everyone knows someone like this, whether it be in business, sports, acting and most definitely in music! The thing that amazes me most is that most of these exhaustingly annoying egomaniacs have no idea that they are doing it. However, it is very apparent to everyone around them.
“This song is basically the thrash metal bastard spawn of ‘You’re So Vain’ by Carly Simon. As it was inspired by a couple of actual people that are too damn self-absorbed to ever realize collectively they were my muse. In the ugliest way! We all know someone like this. And I just wanted to express my disgust in that human trait the best way possible! Angry music!
“See you on the road! Thrash!”
The official lyric visualizer for “The Never Was” features original drawings and video production by Tamara Llenas of Aimed & Framed, with single cover artwork created by Mark Richards.
Armed with new material, DEATH ANGEL are set to hit the road again, bringing their explosive live show to audiences across Europe and Australia in a highly anticipated series of performances. The band will also keep their annual holiday show tradition alive, treating fans to their trademark high-energy performances before wrapping up the year.
