The Art of Dying is the fourth studio album by the American thrash metal band Death Angel, released on May 4, 2004.

[1] It was the band's first album with original material in 14 years since 1990's Act III.

Death Angel guitarist Rob Cavestany once explained the origin of the album title as follows: "That was actually an idea that (drummer Andy) Galeon brought in.

He had seen an interview with Bruce Lee around that time, and he was speaking about this philosophy that he had gotten from the Tibetan Book of the Dead (a.k.a.

Whereas if you are living in a morbid kind of way as though you're just on your way to your death slowly but surely, every day that you walk the earth, well, becomes the art of dying.