DEATH ANGEL's 'Killing Season' Lands On German Chart
March 10, 2008DEATH ANGEL's new album, "Killing Season", has entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 59. As previously reported, the CD landed on the Dutch chart at No. 56.
"Killing Season" sold around 2,300 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. (Note: Internet sales *are* included in the SoundScan totals.) This number is in line with the performance of its predecessor, "The Art of Dying", which registered a first-week sales tally of around 2,100 back in May 2004.
EMG Pickups has posted video footage of DEATH ANGEL performing the song "Dethroned" at the group's new CD-release party on Thursday, February 28 at Slim's in San Francisco. Watch the clip below.
DEATH ANGEL filmed a video for "Dethroned" on January 29 with director Robert Sexton (THE DWARVES, AMEN, MONDO GENERATOR) in Santa Paula, California. Check out photos from the video shoot at this location.
"Killing Season" was recorded at Studio 606 in Northridge, California with producer Nick Raskulinecz, who has previously worked with FOO FIGHTERS, RUSH, VELVET REVOLVER, SHADOWS FALL and STONE SOUR, among other acts.
In the January 2008 issue of Decibel magazine, DEATH ANGEL vocalist Mark Osegueda explained how the group's collaboration with Raskulinecz came about. "We're friends with [Canadian rocker Danko Jones], and Nick was actually working on the new Danko record about to come out," says Mark. "We were already talking to different producers, and we'd heard Danko was working with this guy, and we were like, 'Wow, how'd you get that guy?' And Danko walked into the studio one day wearing his DEATH ANGEL hoodie, and Nick went, 'DEATH ANGEL!' and picked up a guitar and started playing the riffs to 'Seemingly Endless Time'. Danko e-mailed us the next day, and suggested we send down our demos to see if he was even interested. We did — Nick loved them, and the timing worked out; he had downtime and we needed to get into the studio within three weeks. All the pieces of the puzzle basically fell into place, and it's been magical."
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