HOBBS' ANGEL OF DEATH CD (1988)

1988. The same year Reign in Blood was still fresh and most Australian bands were still figuring out what extreme metal even meant. Peter Hobbs already knew.

The self-titled debut from Hobbs' Angel of Death landed like a threat, raw thrash/death metal recorded in Australia at a time when that combination barely existed anywhere on the planet. It sits comfortably alongside the first wave of American and European extremity, not as a derivative but as a parallel evolution, proof that the Melbourne and broader Australian underground was generating genuine darkness without waiting for overseas blueprints. This is a foundational document of Australian metal history, the kind of record that gets referenced in the same breath as Sadistik Execution and early Slayer, and for good reason.

Format: CD, full length album. Originally released 1988. Australian thrash/death metal.

Fans of: Slayer, Possessed, Sadistik Execution, Sodom, Gospel of Horns