GOD FORBID AND DEATH ANGEL TO TEAM UP FOR CO-HEADLINING TOUR; HONKEYS RUN FOR THE HILLS

Alright alright alright, let’s just get this out of the way: what God Forbid and Death Angel have in common – aside from being awesome – is that, between the two bands, 90% of their members aren’t white. That’s pretty unusual in the metal world, which likes to willfully forget that guys like Phil Anselmo have a history of making incredibly racist comments in public. I mean, I’ve been in conversations where I’ve heard people talk shit about Howard Jones as a metal singer because the dude isn’t white; I can only imagine what kind of ignorant nonsense the fellas in Death Angel and God Forbid have had to endure in their pasts.

Well, the idiots in A Perfect Murder can keep their Confederate flags; we’ll be at the Death Angel/God Forbid co-headlining run, which is gonna kick off sometime in May. An official announcement (hopefully with tour dates) will be coming soon, but in the meantime, MetalSucks readers should get excited about these shows – there’s no doubt in my mind that they’re gonna be killer. If you’ve never seen God Forbid live, well, we can’t recommend them enough; I’ve personally never gotten to check out Death Angel in concert, but I hear good things about their shows, too…

Death Angel’s new album, Killing Season, hits stores February 26 on Nuclear Blast, and was produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Shadows Fall, Velvet Revovler, Stone Sour, Foo Fighters, the upcoming Trivium album, and probably a million other bands I’m forgetting about); God Forbid, meanwhile, should finally release their new DVD, Beneath the Scars of Glory and Progression, sometime this spring before releasing a brand new album by the end of the year. Get stoked.

-AR