Death Angel
The Enigma Years: 1987-1990
HEAR NO EVIL
Bay Area thrash pups’ early career collected .
Death Angel were the Bash Street Kids of the 80s thrash scene; five teenage brothers and cousins who made Metallica and Slayer look like creaky old men. That callowness shows on the San Francisco band’s 1987 debut album The Ultraviolence, one of the four discs in this box set covering their years on influential US label Enigma. Youthful enthusiasm rather than nailed-on songcraft fires Thrashers and Evil Priest, although the 10-minute instrumental title track is a mark of their ambition.