page_title: Death Angel
section_title: Relentless Retribution (2009–2012)
hierarchical_section_title: Death Angel / History / Relentless Retribution (2009–2012)
caption_attribution_description: English: Death Angel performing in Toronto, 2013
context_page_description: Death Angel is an American thrash metal band from Daly City, California, initially active from 1982 to 1991 and again since 2001. Death Angel has released nine studio albums, two demo tapes, one box set and two live albums. The band has gone through several line-up changes, leaving guitarist Rob Cavestany as the only constant member; he and vocalist Mark Osegueda are the only members of Death Angel to appear on all of their studio albums.
  Death Angel is often referred to as one of the key bands in the Bay Area thrash metal movement of the 1980s, and secured opening slots at club venues that decade, including opening for their peers Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer, Exodus, Testament, Overkill, D.R.I., Mercyful Fate and Possessed. They are also often credited as one of the leaders of the second wave of thrash metal movement from the 1980s, and considered to be one of the "big eight" of the genre. Following the underground success of their first two studio albums, The Ultra-Violence and Frolic Through the Park, Death Angel signed to Geffen Records in 1989, and released their only album for the label, Act III, the following year.
context_section_description: On May 28, 2009, Death Angel announced founding member Andy Galeon had quit the band, leaving Cavestany as the only founding member left in the band. He was replaced by Will Carroll (formerly of Scarecrow, Old Grandad and Vicious Rumors). In November, Diosdado was replaced by Scarecrow / Potential Threat bassist Damien Sisson.
  Relentless Retribution was released on September 3, 2010 in Europe. The album was recorded at Audiohammer Studios in Sanford, Florida with producer Jason Suecof (Trivium, August Burns Red, The Black Dahlia Murder, All That Remains, Whitechapel, DevilDriver), and was the first Death Angel album done without longtime drummer Andy Galeon as well as its first done without either of the Pepa cousins. Death Angel toured in support of Relentless Retribution for two-and-a-half years; the band embarked on the European Thrashfest tour in late 2010 with Kreator, Exodus and Suicidal Angels, and supported Anthrax and Testament on the Worship Music tour in North America three times (in October–November 2011, January–February 2012 and September–October 2012).
caption: Death Angel headlining in Toronto, 2013
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