DEATH ANGEL Returns With First New Song In Six Years, ‘Wrath (Bring Fire)’

San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal stalwarts DEATH ANGEL have returned with their first new music in six years. Ahead of their upcoming “Summer Of Wrath” European tour in summer 2025, the band has unleashed a powerful new track titled “Wrath (Bring Fire)”. Accompanying the release is a blistering visualizer, crafted by Tamara Lienas of Aimed & Framed, which you can check out below.

DEATH ANGEL vocalist Mark Osegueda comments: “‘Wrath(Bring Fire)’ is the first DEATH ANGEL song featuring the whole band to be released since our 2019 Grammy-nominated album Humanicide. This song was, however, written during the pandemic. I wrote the lyrics and melody to this song in January of 2021. During that time I was, as all of us were, stuck at home lost, angry and very confused. I was also watching way more television than I usually had. One genre being medieval/fantasy shows which were kind of new to me as an adult yet were very popular during that time. Which makes sense in retrospect. We all needed some new forms of escapism from the worldwide hell that we were all going through.

“That being said, it was partially what inspired these lyrics. An ancient/medieval fantasy end of the world war meets my actual approach in disputes. That can unfortunately, for all involved, turn very ugly if I’m pushed to a certain level or place when I feel I’m being wronged. And, as always for me, pen doesn’t hit the paper until I hear the music and that paints a picture and inspires a vision that ends up being my lyrics. And the music Rob [Cavestany, guitar] wrote for this and the fantasy/medieval-based shows I was watching at that time and the personal hell that I was going through, figuring out who the hell I was during that awful time in our collective history and marrying that with my true personal aggressions and fury that I still fight with to this very day when I feel I’ve been wronged, inspired this song. And it does still happen to me, and I’m sure all of us. It definitely still happens to me to this very day. Sometimes it still does, by those that are supposed to be closest to me that think they must be more clever than me when in actuality they are just deceitful and so easily read.

“Well, for those of you who can relate to this subject, which I assume is most of us, this song is for you. Because if you are foolish enough to try to take advantage of me once or continually — to quote Al Capone: ‘Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weakness is not what you are going to remember about me.’ That being said, when I come, I’ll bring FIRE!!”

As previously announced, DEATH ANGEL will commemorate the 35th anniversary of their landmark album Act III by performing it in full during their tenth annual Christmas show, taking place on December 18 at The Fillmore in San Francisco.