In a new chat with Nikki Blakk of San Francisco’s 107.7 The Bone radio station, Mark Osegueda addressed Death Angel’s departure from the W.A.S.P tour.
“Since this whole Kerry band happened, and still being a major part of Death Angel, there was some backlash from a lot of Death Angel fans, thinking that [my involvement with Kerry] might be the end of Death Angel or it’s taking away from Death Angel,” the singer said of why Death Angel dropped out of the fall 2024 W.A.S.P. tour.
He continued, “And then there was a tour that Death Angel had a drop off of, and it was because there was conflicting dates with Kerry. But when that [W.A.S.P.] tour was offered to [Death Angel], I had put it out there to the powers that be that, ‘Okay, but I can’t guarantee I’ll be available for the whole tour. Just know this in advance. So if you take it, I will have to do shows with Kerry if they get booked, and it looks like they very well may.'”
“And still my words were taken and with enthusiasm, they just heard, to a certain degree people thought, ‘Well, let’s do it.’ I said, ‘Okay, let’s, but once again…’ I mean, every bit of communication we had, I would reiterate that. And we still went for it, throwing caution to the wind, and the wind blew back eventually, so to speak,” Osegueda further explained.
The rocker added, “And I said, ‘Hey, what we didn’t want to happen is happening. But we all knew this going in advance. So this is what we can do.’ And I actually, being someone — I do try to troubleshoot for Death Angel all the time because there’s been many years that Death Angel has been self-managed by me, Rob [Cavestany, Death Angel guitarist] and Ted [Aguilar, Death Angel guitarist], and we’ve also had management, but we always work with management very well.”
“And so I tried to troubleshoot, and I said, ‘Look, I could think of a few [singers] that could fill in,’ and I gave some names and whatnot, just as an option. ‘Cause I didn’t want them to lose the tour. But the reality is what the reality was. So eventually, what came back when that was offered to the W.A.S.P. camp and booking agents, whatnot, they just basically said, ‘Well, we don’t want a fill-in for two particular times,’ ’cause I would have missed two batches of dates, and they didn’t want that to be the case…” he noted.
Mark concluded, “That’s pretty much the stance they took. So, then, from there on, push came to shove, and they got Armored Saint, which I think it’s a great bill. I mean, who’s to say that W.A.S.P. and Death Angel wouldn’t have been a great bill? A lot of people were looking forward to it.”
Death Angel explained on Facebook in August that they had to drop off the W.A.S.P. tour due to unforeseen issues and scheduling conflicts. Armored Saint will replace them on the tour.
