Not every band can live up to a legacy but every once in a while a group exceeds expectations by pushing boundaries in a genre theyve helped create. Among the youngest bands ever to storm the metal genre, Death Angel has come to be known as one of the most influential bands to emerge from the thriving Bay Area Thrash Metal Scene in the early 1980s. An era when one could catch Cliff Burton (Metallica) at the front of the stage at Ruthies Inn banging his head to Death Angels inventive style, and speedy, complex arrangements.