DEATH ANGEL guitarist Rob Cavestany is featured in a new interview with Jackson Guitars. An excerpt is available below:

JacksonGuitars.com: Were there any songs (from new album The Dream Calls For Blood) that you were able to complete and test out live while you were on tour?

Cavestany: "We didn’t test any of the songs on purpose, and it’s basically due to modern technology. You know, if we’d play a new song live, it’s hitting the Internet that night. And really, we do a lot of spontaneous things when going through the writing process, re-arranging things along the way. So they might not be finished products. We didn’t want bogus versions of the songs leaking in a way they weren’t supposed to be heard in the first place. But we did play a number of them instrumentally during soundchecks, so people may have heard some new stuff and not known it."

"Another cool thing that has affected the album by writing on the road is that a lot of it comes from a really dark place, which is good for metal. The grind of being on the road and the excitement of being on tour, that’s all in there. The writing was influenced by that, and we wanted the recording to have that vibe, too. So we wrote right up to the recording time, almost too close for comfort. After the last show we did in Europe, I flew home, did some laundry and in three days I was flying to Florida for two months to record. We wanted to have that vibe without resting after coming off tour. It was killer, even when it was killing us (laughs)."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Death Angel will release The Dream Calls For Blood, on October 11th (Europe), October 14th (UK) and October 15th (North America). Pre-orders for the album on CD, vinyl LP and digipak formats are now available. The digipak includes 'Heaven And Hell' as a bonus track and a Making Of... DVD. Go to the band's official webshop here for details.

The Dream Calls For Blood tracklisting:

'Left For Dead'

'Son Of The Morning'

'Fallen'

'The Dream Calls For Blood'

'Succubus'

'Execution - Don’t Save Me'

'Caster Of Shame'

'Detonate'

'Empty'

'Territorial Instinct / Bloodlust'

Digipack bonus track:

'Heaven And Hell'

Digipack bonus DVD:

The Making Of The Dream Calls For Blood

'The Dream Calls For Blood':

Preview trailer:

Death Angel's North American headlining tour in support of The Dream Calls For Blood features support from 3 INCHES OF BLOOD, BATTLECROSS, REVOCATION, and DIAMOND PLATE.

Tour dates:

October

18 - Slim's - San Francisco, CA (no Diamond Plate)
19 - The Whisky - Hollywood, CA
20 - Ramona Mainstage - Ramona, CA
21 - Orpheum Theater - Flagstaff, AZ
23 - Dirty Dog - Austin, TX
24 - Scout Bar - Houston, TX
25 - South By So What - Dallas, TX
26 - Chameleon Room - Oklahoma City, OK
27 - FuBar - St Louis, MO
29 - Webster Hall (Marlin Room) - New York, NY
30 - Empire - Springfield, VA
31 - Altar Bar- Pittsburgh, PA

November

1 - Mojo 13 - Wilmington, DE
2 - Middle East - Boston, MA
3 - Foufounes Electriques - Montreal, QC
4 - Opera House - Toronto, ON
5 - Reggie's - Chicago, IL
7 - Summit Music Hall - Denver, CO
8 - Sunshine Theater - Albuquerque, NM
9 - Rocky Point - Tempe, AZ
10 - Observatory - Santa Ana, CA

November

26 - Katowice, Poland - Mega Club
27 - Prague, Czech Republic - Nova Chmelnice
28 - Karlsruhe, Germany - Substage
29 - Arcicolony, Italy - Brescia
30 - Gualtieri, Italy - Temprock Club

December

2 - Vienna, Austria - Szene
4 - Munich, Germany - Backstage
6 - Erfurt, Germany - Centrum
7 - Eeklo, Belgium - Kubiek
8 - Paris, France - La Maroquinerie
10 - London, England - Underworld
11 - Essen, Germany - Zeche Carl
12 - Eindhoven, Netherlands - Eindhoven Metal Meeting , Effenar Hall
13 - Alsfeld, Germany - Stadthalle
14 - Zürich, Switzerland - X-Mas - Metal Meeting, Stadthalle Dietikon
15 - Geiselwind, Germany - Christmas Metal - Festival, Eventhall