Death Angel - Killing Season - review
Death Angel - Killing Season - review
Tracklist
Disc I01. Lord Of Hate
02. Sonic Beatdown
03. Dethroned
04. Carnival Justice
05. Buried Alive
06. Soulless
07. The Noose
08. When Worlds Collide
09. God VS God
10. Steal The Crown
11. Resurrection Machine
+ Dethroned [promo video][Blood Pack edition bonus]
Disc II [DVD: Live In Strasburg, France, April 17, 2003][Blood Pack edition bonus]
01. The Ultra-Violence, Pt. I - Intro
02. Seemingly Endless Time
03. Voracious Souls
04. Mistress Of Pain
05. 3rd Floor
06. Evil Priest
07. Stagnant
08. Bored
09. Kill As One
A review by
Baz Anderson February 28, 2008
The cleanly produced album plods along with its fair share of twists and turns and bursts of speed, the seemingly forgotten component these days in the form of the bass guitar creeps in for more of a look-in than with most modern albums these days, and even though "Killing Season" is not over the top and crammed with as much action as musically possible, it is still both suitably heavy and catchy with the odd injection of attitude and a good dose of old fashioned rage in there as well; "When Worlds Collide" and "God vs God" illustrate these aspects to a tee.
"Killing Season" has many great songs in its arsenal, you will find your head banging or foot tapping or yourself generally humming along with pretty much everything during the album's nearly-fifty minute duration, this is catchy material but not to the extent that you will be kept awake at night with the same damn song going through your head over and over again. This may mean that you struggle to find any real high points that stand above anything else throughout the album, and also in general the album may not be one of the most memorable albums you could ever hear, but these are not huge issues as "Killing Season" is a fun sounding album that would do a good job at providing entertainment at a party or as the soundtrack to some road trip with your good friends. This album will be a huge breath of fresh air to most people as these days so-called thrash metal bands more often than not either have no balls to them or sound like they were put together by businessmen or just try to replicate what has already been done before - but with "Killing Season" we have the sound of the traditional and the shine of the modern rolled all into one.
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Mmmm, Killing Season is definitely Death Angel's weakest album and most boring one as well (not enough variation on it to keep me interested for the entire ride). I would rate it 7.4 at most.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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overall a good album, but it indeed gets boring.
---- Blessed is he that murders Christ in himself and in his fellow men.  Written by TheBigRossowski on 10.02.2009 at 16:01
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I agree with review and the rating. Very good album, but I think the last album was still a bit better.
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Posts: 8004 Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 29.02.2008 at 15:17 Less good than The Art Of Dying, but still miles better than that lousy "Frolic Through The Park" piece of dump (DA's weakest album IMO). I'd rate it around 7.5 as well. It's a fun listen altogether 
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seems to have a mixed response from the comments ive read, but sounds like a good listen 
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Posts: 7263 Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 29.02.2008 at 15:17 Same here. I don't even think I'll buy it! 
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Yep, it's done now. Just ordered it Digipak of course ^^
---- THRASH!!!
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ALthough I find it their weakest album I did buy the digipak today cause I am a completist and it came with a bonus live dvd.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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Posts: 455 Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 03.03.2008 at 22:17 Yeah, same here. I always have to buy the limited or digipak version of.. well anything. About the album (which I haven't heard yet), I just can't say no to some good ol' 80's thrash. I live for that stuff.
---- THRASH!!!
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Posts: 40071 Written by DrunkenFuck on 04.03.2008 at 21:50 well, the album has started to grow on me ever since I got and now it is a tad above Frolic for me
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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Posts: 455 Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 04.03.2008 at 21:56 The best albums are the ones who needs to grow on you. That's what I always say.
---- THRASH!!!
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Posts: 825 Written by DrunkenFuck on 04.03.2008 at 22:01 Even if I'm not a Death Angel fan, I wanted to quoe this for massive truth.
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One of those few 2008 albums that I liked. The review is very accurate I must admit.  So good job. As far as the rating would probably give it the same 8.2.
---- Savor what you feel and what you see Things that may not seem important now But may be tomorrow R.I.P. Chuck Schuldiner Satan was a Backstreet Boy
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I liked this album a lot!! All the songs have power and I can see they keep the thrash sound and it likes me more! a very good album in my opinion!
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Very Good album, it have some weak songs like dethroned, but also have nice old-school Thrashers like Sonic Beatdown and nice slow but heavys like Souless. I think the 8.2 is o'right.
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Yeah this album grew on me so much. I've been playing it a lot lately.
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I liked this album a lot, the magic of this one, at least, IMO, is that every song is different, this is not a "one song" album, every song is great and well done, even if it is not a crushing album, it deserves attention, and I think that it is as good as other Thrash albums released in 2008. I usually have some favorite songs on albums but every song here is great, or, at least, different from each one
---- "Les vers savent qu'ils n'ont pas d'ailes, c'est pour cela qu'ils se cachent sous terre"
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For me, anything after Act III is a bit of a letdown. I feel Act III is one of the greatest metal records of all time.
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