DEATH ANGEL drummer Will Carroll was interviewed by “Reckless” Rexx Ruger for a brand new episode of the Pod Scum podcast. Requested by Ruger the place DEATH ANGEL‘s place is throughout the San Francisco Bay Space thrash steel scene, Will — who joined DEATH ANGEL in 2009 because the alternative for the band’s authentic drummer, Andy Galeon — responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Ah, that is a tough query. The place does DEATH ANGEL match within the Bay Space thrash group? I imply, it is gonna be a biased reply, clearly, ‘trigger I am within the band. However I feel DEATH ANGEL needs to be a hell of loads greater than they’re. And I am not fairly positive why that’s, that they have not had extra success. I imply, we’re profitable, however I feel DEATH ANGEL needs to be a lot extra profitable and enjoying higher spots on festivals, higher slots on festivals and larger excursions and all the things. They’ve paid their dues they usually’ve put out an extended string of killer albums, earlier than I used to be within the band and since I have been within the band.”
Will continued: “I am not attempting to sound like I am patting myself on the again, however we’re exhausting staff, man. And we have toured our asses off previously 16 years since I’ve joined. And we have toured manner extra since I’ve joined than they did the primary time round. And I am not even gonna take the time to determine why they are not extra profitable than they’re. However — no matter — I feel the band needs to be additional alongside. And it isn’t ‘reason for lack of exhausting work on our finish.”
Carroll spent virtually two weeks on a ventilator in an intensive care unit at a Northern California hospital in March 2020. He first received sick when he and the remainder of DEATH ANGEL spent greater than a month on the street in Europe with TESTAMENT and EXODUS as a part of that yr’s “The Bay Strikes Again” tour. The now-52-year-old musician was hospitalized on the California Pacific Medical Heart in San Francisco after catching COVID-19 on the aforementioned European tour.
Carroll awoke from a medically induced coma on March 30, 2020 after spending almost two weeks on a ventilator. Docs informed the San Francisco Chronicle he was in crucial situation and got here near dying.
DEATH ANGEL had been touring in help of its ninth album, “Humanicide”, which got here out in Might 2019 by way of Nuclear Blast.
The band was nominated for a Grammy Award for “Greatest Steel Efficiency” for the “Humanicide” title monitor. It was the group’s first Grammy nomination.
Will may be heard on the final 4 DEATH ANGEL studio albums: “Relentless Retribution” (2010),“The Dream Calls For Blood” (2013),“The Evil Divide” (2016) and the aforementioned “Humanicide”.
DEATH ANGEL will have a good time the thirty fifth anniversary of its “Act III” album by performing it in its entirety on a fall 2025 U.S. tour. The trek, which can characteristic help from TOXIC HOLOCAUST, LIONS AT THE GATE and MISFIRE, will kick off on November 26 on the Oriental Theater in Denver, Colorado and wrap with two Christmas exhibits on December 18-19 at The Fillmore in San Francisco, California.
This previous Might, DEATH ANGEL launched its first new music in six years, a model new music known as “Wrath (Deliver Hearth)”.