Deicide
| Deicide | |
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 Deicide live 2009 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Death metal , extreme metal |
| founding | 1987 (as Amon) 1989 (renamed Deicide) |
| Founding members | |
| Glen Benton | |
| Brian Hoffman (until 2004) | |
guitar |
Eric Hoffman (until 2004) |
Drums , studio guitar |
Steve Asheim (also: studio guitar: 2 songs 2008) |
| Current occupation | |
Guttural vocals, bass |
Glen Benton |
guitar |
Jack Owen (since 2004) |
guitar |
Kevin Quirion (touring guitar: 2008–2010, guitar: since 2011) |
Drums, studio guitar |
Steve Asheim (also: studio guitar: 2 songs 2008) |
| former members | |
guitar |
Ralph Santolla (guitar: 2005–2007, studio guitar: 2008, tour guitar: 2009, guitar: 2010–2011) |
| Live support and session musicians | |
Guttural singing |
Seth Van Loo (parts of the European tour: 2007) |
Guttural vocals, bass |
Dariusz "Garbaty" Kułpiński (parts of the European tour: 2007) |
guitar |
Dave Suzuki (touring guitar: 2004-2005) |
Deicide ( English for, deicide ') is a death metal - band from the United States . It was founded in 1987 under the name Amon in Florida.
history
Deicide first published the two demo recordings Feasting the Beast (1987) and Sacrificial (1989) under the name Amon . In 1989 the band was renamed Deicide and in 1990 they released their self-titled debut album. The successor Legion was released in 1992. The band was at the height of their career at this point and was considered one of the best-selling death metal bands. To this day, she is in a head-to-head race with the neighboring Cannibal Corpse in this regard.
The original line-up with Glen Benton (electric bass and vocals), brothers Eric and Brian Hoffman on electric guitars and Steve Asheim on drums lasted a total of 17 years and seven studio albums. For most fans, the debut and Legion are the band's reference albums, the quality of which they later failed to achieve.
Only in 2004 did the stable band structure crumble. Brian and Eric Hoffman left the group. First there was an announcement by Glen Benton that they would be replaced by the guitarists of the band Vital Remains . Dave Suzuki only played for Deicide in 2004 and 2005 and only as a live guitarist. Instead, Glen Benton took over the vocals for said group.
The eighth studio album The Stench of Redemption was released on August 18, 2006 - for the first time since the band was founded with a different line-up. Jack Owen (ex- Cannibal-Corpse ; guitar with Deicide since 2004) and Ralph Santolla (ex-Death; guitar with Deicide since 2005, later went to Obituary ) could be heard here for the first time on a studio album.
Ralph Santolla left the band in late 2007, but can still be heard on the ninth studio album Till Death Do Us Part , released on April 25, 2008 . In addition to the normal edition, a limited edition was available with a patch labeled Glen Benton for President . On this album, drummer Steve Asheim can be heard on guitar in two songs.
Kevin Quirion took over the guitar for tours between 2008 and 2010 as a live musician. Santolla returned to the band in 2010, but was fired in 2011 after the release of the tenth studio album To Hell with God during the tour due to alcohol problems and this time Quirion returned as a full-time member. Quirion can be heard for the first time on the eleventh studio album In the Minds of Evil , released in 2013 .
Texts and controversies
Deicide's lyrics are almost exclusively about anti-Christian or satanic topics, so the band is banned from performing in many places. Singer Glen Benton has an inverted cross branding on his forehead and is a member of the American Anti-Catholics Organization.
At a concert by the band on November 25, 1992 at Fryshuset in Stockholm, a bomb detonated while the opening act Gorefest was playing. Daniel Ekeroth reports that suddenly a loud bang was heard, everyone thought it was part of the performance and Gorefest played to the end. Quorthon of Bathory , however, the head of security personnel located at the time in the backstage area that evening, said the band had played so loud that no one heard the bomb. He stood about five feet from the bomb and didn't hear it, but suddenly smelled his hair on fire, saw concrete dust flying around and, when he turned around, saw a huge, burning hole in the wall. However, there was no personal injury. The perpetrators are suspected to be either militant animal rights activists who wanted to protest against the band's bloody stage show and Benton's alleged tendencies to torture and kill animals, or fanatical black metal supporters who wanted to attack Gorefest as a politically correct band. Gorefest had received death threats beforehand and had to leave the city with a police escort after the incident.
Discography
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Studio albums
- 1990: Deicide
- 1992: Legion
- 1995: Once Upon the Cross
- 1997: Serpents of the Light
- 2000: Insinerate hymn
- 2001: In Torment, in Hell
- 2004: Scars of the Crucifix
- 2006: The Stench of Redemption
- 2008: Till Death Do Us Part
- 2011: To Hell with God
- 2013: In the Minds of Evil
- 2018: Overtures of Blasphemy
Other productions
- 1987: Feasting the Beast (Demo; under the name Amon)
- 1989: Sacrificial (Demo; under the name Amon)
- 1993: Amon: Feasting the Beast (re-release of the two demos)
- 1998: When Satan Lives ( live album , recorded at the House of Blues in Chicago )
- 2003: The Best of ( Best of )
Videos
- Homage of Satan
- When Heaven Burns
- Scars of the Crucifix
- Conviction
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Daniel Ekeroth: Swedish Death Metal . 2nd Edition. Bazillion Points Books, Brooklyn, NY 2009, ISBN 978-0-9796163-1-0 , pp. 240 ( google.fr [accessed August 14, 2014]).
- ↑ CROMCarl: Quorthon On Bathory's First Two Albums: "We Had Said 'Hello' With The First One, Then With The Second One, We Were The Cocksuckers Of Satan". Metal Underground.com, February 17, 2012, accessed August 14, 2014 .
- ↑ Christoffer Röstlund Jonsson, Lisa Bergman: "Bomben sprängde hål i väggen". (No longer available online.) Allt om Stockholm, May 19, 2010, archived from the original on August 14, 2014 ; Retrieved August 14, 2014 (Swedish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Michael Moynihan , Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos , First Edition, Feral House 1998, ISBN 0-922915-48-2 , p. 268 f.
- ^ Garry Sharpe-Young : Deicide. (No longer available online.) MusicMight, archived from the original on March 16, 2014 ; accessed on August 14, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b admin: Demiurg Interview. Metal Impressions, October 3, 2010, accessed August 14, 2014 .
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
