Dear lord in heaven, it’s 2024 and we’re still talking about the fact that Glen Benton has an inverted cross on his forehead. This is not a knock on Deicide, by the way, as they have consistently recorded and toured seemingly nonstop since the early nineties, hence the new album Banished by Sin (Reigning Phoenix Music). No this is regarding a text message I received from an anonymous listener during my radio show, The Stress Factor (cheap plug), last week when I played “Trick or Betrayed.” Continue reading
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INTERVIEW: Glen Benton of Deicide Talks About Their New “Banished By Sin” Album
In this episode, Ghost Cult Co-Owner Omar Cordy chatted with Glenn Benton of Deicide! Their new album Banished By Sin is releasing on April 26th, 2024 via Reigning Phoenix Music! Omar and Glen caught up about the changes in the lineup, a switch in producers, working with Taylor Young and Jeramie Kling, album artwork, and more!Continue reading
Roadrunner United Release Celebrating The Iconic Label to See a Rerelease in 2023
Roadrunner United was a project organized by iconic hard rock record label Roadrunner Records to celebrate its 25th anniversary, culminating in the U.S. Billboard Top 200, UK Albums, and Australian ARIA Albums-charting original The All Star Sessions. Four “team captains” (Slipknot’s Joey Jordison (RIP), Machine Head’s Robb Flynn, Fear Factory’s Dino Cazares, and Trivium’s Matthew K. Heafy) were chosen to lead 57 artists from 45 past and present Roadrunner bands. On December 15, 2005, a concert celebrating the project, album, and anniversary took place at the Nokia Theater in New York City. That star-studded event featured multiple musicians, both past and present, from Roadrunner bands — as well as musicians that did not originally perform on the All-Star Sessions album. Now that album is getting a release in 2023 on multiple formats. Watch the live performance video of “The End (Live)” featuring Fear Factory’s Dino Cazares, and Trivium’s Matthew K. Heafy – right now!
Deicide – Overtures Of Blasphemy
Famously noted for his devout Christian beliefs, the God-fearing Glen Benton has never been shy about expressing his religious side. A deeply pious man, the always smiling Benton assembled his first church choir in 1987. Going by the name of Amon, and aided by an unofficial fifth member, Jesus, the small band of congregants decided to change their name to something a little more wholesome and reverential. Settling upon Deicide (the act of killing a god), the four-piece inexplicably found themselves at the forefront of the burgeoning Floridian Death Metal scene, going on to inspire an untold number of godless hairy noisemakers.Continue reading
Deicide To Begin Working On New Album
Deicide is working on album number 12 and are expected to spent much of 2015 working on it. Drummer Steve Asheim said:
“We have a tour of Europe scheduled for December… Other than that, we got picked up for another record, so we’re gonna start working on some new stuff, which we’ve got a couple of songs kind of framed out already. So we’re gonna be busy again all through next year — next couple of years, it looks like. [We’re gonna work on] a record and [play] some more shows. It seems like they’re gonna happen, so [I’m] looking forward to all that.”
On Deicide’s longevity:
“It’s good to see that [the metal scene] is still going. It’s weird when you hear kids talk about the band: ‘We listened to you in high school.’ It’s like you hear that for years about how kids are listening to us in high school. So it’s, like, we’ve been an ever-lasting presence in high schools for twenty years now. So, as we become multi-generational, it’s, like, we have 50-year-old fans and then we still have 15-year-old fans that roll up [to see us play]. It’s like the thing that… When I was a kid, [what] BLACK SABBATH was, it’s, like, that’s what we’ve become — not in a selling sense, but in a how-people-think-about-your-band sense. I don’t know… It’s just a wild thing to have happen.”