DEATH ANGEL Guitarist Says New Album Is 'Going To Be Brutal'

LivingForMetal.com conducted an interview with DEATH ANGEL guitarist Rob Cavestany in late August. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow

LivingForMetal.com: I had a chance to check out some songs [from your new acoustic album] on your MySpace site and I was interested in finding out where you got the inspiration for these songs, touring? Personal life? Family?

Rob: "Well not so much from the life on tour as just life. You know what you are just going through all the trials and tribulations that you have to go through as an individual and I just think that in this music especially lyrically it's kind of something that everybody can relate too. It's more to the human side of things."

LivingForMetal.com: And was this a reunion of sorts with Gus [Pepa; original DEATH ANGEL guitarist] or has he been in the picture after all this time?

Rob: "Well, sort of a reunion on record on album, yeah. But, you know, Gus has been in the picture; we've been jamming behind the scenes all along ever since THE ORGANIZATION broke up and even THE SWARM. Gus would go, disappear, and do his own thing and all of a sudden, I don't hear from Gus for a month and then one day 'Hello?' 'Yeah?' 'Gus? O, hey dude! What's up?' And you know, that day he's at my house with his acoustic. We didn't waste any time man, we just started jamming."

LivingForMetal.com: Having Ted [Aguilar] jamming with you after the reunion, I wanted to ask how has that transition been for you after Gus and you jamming all those years.

Rob: "Oh, man, awesome, dude, awesome. Ted just slipped right in. And it's funny, man, 'cuz Ted is more DEATH ANGEL than Gus is now, you know. Gus and his life just moved on to the point of where he transcended beyond the world of metal, he was departed from it for so long, and when we reformed I did talk to Gus. I tried to get him in to do the whole thing, you know, the five of us, but he just very respectfully said, 'I'm sorry, dude, I just don't feel comfortable.'"

LivingForMetal.com: Is this more reflective on the acoustic album and is this spilling over onto the new DEATH ANGEL songs?

Rob: "It's more in the sound not as much lyrically in a way that's the fuel or the fire to it, but not in a family Disney sorta way. This album's gonna be brutal, man, it's heavy but it's inspiration. We're not just doing this album so we can go party now and get out on tour you know. This is about working for you know my kid and our families and their futures."

LivingForMetal.com: Speaking of now, what's on the horizon for DEATH ANGEL?

Rob: New album coming out and we just expect to come attacking next year.

LivingForMetal.com: So a full tour is in the plans?

Rob: Oh yea. We are gonna be coming strong. What I can tell you is we are planning to hit the studio by mid-September, which is just a couple weeks from now, we should start recording the album. Record into October be done by November, mixing and everything, wrap it up by the end of this year and have the album hit the streets by March 2008. That's the idea right now, be on tour right then in the spring through the summer just kicking ass, that's our big big plan. And if all goes well, our album's going to be BRUTAL. It is, anyway but if what we are cooking up right now happens, ... OH, man it's gonna be killer. I'm so excited, man. 'Cuz the people we are hoping to work with in the studio and the studio is just amazing."

Read the entire interview at www.livingformetal.com.