Hobbs' Angel Of Death Signs With Hells Headbangers To Release New Album

Today Hells Headbangers announces the signing of Australia's legendary Hobbs' Angel of Death. The first fruit of this union shall be the band's long-awaited comeback album, "Heaven Bled," which will be released this fall by Hells Headbangers.

Helmed by one relentless maniac named Peter Hobbs, Hobbs' Angel of Death is one of the more unsung cult favorites of '80s metal. Hailing from Australia many years before it was cool to do so, the band released two classic demos in 1987, "Angel of Death" and the telltale "Virgin Metal Invasion From Down Under," before time came for the inevitable debut album.

That album, 1988's self-titled opus, was released by Steamhammer during the label's glory years, and quickly found a devoted legion of fans enthralled to Hobbs' Kreator-meets-Dark Angel style of deathrash. It would be many years before a follow-up, 1995's "Inheritance," and the band broke up not long after.

Come 2002, however, Hobbs' Angel of Death would re-form and play a number of European festivals and scattered tour dates over the next decade, but aside from the "Hobbs' Satan Crusade" compilation of the two demos, no new material had yet arisen.

But now, courtesy of longtime fans Hells Headbangers, the first all-new recording of Hobbs' Angel of Death in over two decades has finally come to pass. In anticipation of the "Heaven Bled" release, Hobbs' Angel of Death will be touring the United States this August and September.

August 22 - Houston, TX
August 23 - San Antonio, TX
August 24 - El Paso, TX
August 25 - Las Vegas, NV
August 26 - Los Angeles, CA
August 27 - San Fransico, CA
August 28 - Portland, OR
August 29 - Salt Lake City, UT
August 30 - Denver, CO
August 31 - Kansas City, MO
September 1 - Milwaukee, WI
September 2 - Cleveland, OH @ Hells Headbash
September 3 - Indianapolis, IN
September 4 - Nashville. TN
September 5 - Louisville, KY
September 6 - St Louis, MO
September 7 - Chicago, IL
September 8 - Buffalo, NY
September 9 - Boston, MA
September 10 - Silver Springs, MD
September 11 - Brooklyn, NY
September 12 - Pittsburgh, PA
September 13 - Richmond, VA
September 14 - Atlanta, GA
September 16 - Tampa, FL
September 17 - Miami, FL