The Ultra-Violence (1987–1989)
The success of Kill As One led to a record deal with Enigma Records, who released
Death Angel's debut album,
The Ultra-Violence, in 1987.
The band recorded the album when all the band members were still under 20 years old, and the album sold 40,000 copies in just four months.
A video was filmed for "Voracious Souls," a song about a band of cannibals, but it never aired on MTV due to the nature of the lyrics. The group released the follow-up
album Frolic Through The Park in 1988, which spawned the single "Bored" (which was also used in the 1990 movie Leatherface:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III), the video for which did receive regular airplay on MTV's Headbanger's Ball. Frolic featured more diverse material than the straightforward thrash of the first album; the album included a cover of Kiss's "Cold Gin," and the relatively light, playful "Bored" was written under the seemingly unlikely influence of U2, and the guitar playing of The Edge in particular.
The band toured worldwide for the first time and found notable success in Japan, selling out 2 full Japanese tours.
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