Description
Act III is the third studio album by the thrash metal band Death Angel, released in 1990 on Geffen Records.
Regarded by many critics and fans as the band’s finest effort, the album was produced by famed metal producer Max Norman (Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, Savatage, Fates Warning and Loudness), and marked the first (and only) major label release by Death Angel. The album is listed as number 328 in the 2010 reference book, The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time.
The album spawned the singles Seemingly Endless Time and A Room with a View, with both songs receiving music videos and airplay on MTV’s Headbangers Ball. This is the final Death Angel studio album to feature guitarist Gus Pepa.
On tour in support of Act III in 1991, the band suffered a serious tour bus crash in which drummer Andy Galeon was critically injured. During his year-long recovery, singer Mark Osegueda left the band, effectively ending Death Angel and making Act III their last proper studio album for more than a decade. The band would reunite in 2001 and has continued to release more albums. In October 2020, Death Angel released an almost entirely acoustic version of A Room With A View on their Under Pressure EP.
