Germany's Metal Hammer Magazine recently conducted an interview with DEATH ANGEL guitarist Rob Cavestany at this year's installment of the Graspop Metal Meeting, which was held on June 26th - 28th in Dessel, Belgium. Go to this location to check it out.

As previosuly reported, BW&BK; scribe Carl Begai recently spoke with Cavestany about the band's new DVD / CD Sonic German beatdown. An excerpt from the interview is available below, with Cavestany addressing the rawness of the material featured in the package.

“We didn’t have a massive budget to work with to where we could have created a total audio-visual experience, recording multiple shows and editing in the best performances to have a perfect display of a concert situation. These shows were filmed and they were rockin’, so this has a raw, practically unedited what-you-see-is-what-you-get kinda vibe. The Rock Hard Festival show (2007), we definitely set up to film it with the idea of doing a DVD. That was one of those things where we flew in and out for that one show, so we only brought guitars. We didn’t have any of our normal backline and amps, no soundcheck, so we were a little bit limited in what we were able to do. The Killing Season tour set from Adelsheim (2008), that was one of those nights where the camera was rolling but we had no plans for the footage. It was filmed just so we’d have something. I forgot we were even filming that night. That show is more of a fly-on-the-wall perspective of us doing a club show. It’s raw because we’re not a band that’s so successful that we try to make a DVD that seems raw to try and get street cred or something. It’s raw because that’s the best we could do (laughs).”

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Sonic German Beatdown details are as follows:

DVD: Live @ Rock Hard Festival 2007 - Intro, 'Seemingly Endless Time', 'Voracious Souls', 'Mistress Of Pain', 'EX-TC', '3rd Floor', 'Thrown To The Wolves', '5 Steps Of Freedom', 'Thicker Than Blood', 'The Devil Incarnate', 'Disturbing The Peace', 'Stagnant', 'The Ultra Violence', (introduction: 'Carnival Justice'), 'Bored', 'Kill As One',

Live in Adelsheim, Live Factory, 2008 - 'Lord of Hate', 'Evil Priest', 'Sonic Beatdown', 'Dethroned', 'Voracious Souls', 'Carnival Justice', 'Buried Alive', 'Soulless', 'When Worlds Collide', 'Seemingly Endless Time', 'God vs. God', 'Steal The Crown', 'Devil Incarnate', '3rd Floor', 'Kill As One', 'Resurrection Machine', 'Thrown to The Wolves'. Bonus video clips: 'Thicker Than Blood', 'Dethroned'.

CD - Intro, 'Seemingly Endless Time', 'Voracious Souls', 'Mistress Of Pain', 'EX-TC', '3rd Floor', 'Thrown To The Wolves', '5 Steps Of Freedom', 'Thicker Than Blood', 'The Devil Incarnate', 'Disturbing The Peace', 'Stagnant', 'The Ultra Violence', 'Bored', 'Kill As One'.