Legion (album)
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CD |
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8th |
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29 min |
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Morrisound Recording , Tampa |
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Legion is the second studio album by the American death metal band Deicide . It was released in April 1992 on the Roadrunner Records label .
background
The album has an unusually short playing time of 29 minutes for the death metal genre. This feature also marked the band's debut album, released two years earlier. In the press the album was first announced under the title The Calling . The band's singer and bassist, Glen Benton , caused a stir with his threat that he would sacrifice his just-born son to Satan if the album didn't sell well.
Track list
- Satan spawn
- Dead But Dreaming
- Repent to Die
- Trifixion
- Behead the Prophet (No Lord Shall Live)
- Holy Deception
- In Hell I Burn
- Revocate the agitator
Music style and lyrics
Singer and bassist Benton claims that the album was ahead of its time and too fast for the listener back then. According to Alain Strasser from Metal1.info, Steve Asheim's drumming seems “rushed”, as if he wanted to “overtake the guitars. But when Glen Benton's voice joins it, everything comes together. ”Benton's guttural vocals are higher than those of many other US death metal bands, but according to Strasser“ not a bit ”more understandable. The "often double-track vocals, with their normal growling voice and slightly higher screeching" have established themselves as typical for the band. In terms of content, everything revolves around the topic of Satanism .
reception
Benton himself mentioned in 2004 that the album was initially universally hated and is now loved. In Rock Hard , however, the album was referred to as a "good-quality death lead program"; According to Michael Rensen, the band won't let anything go wrong, but it is “[typical] Florida Death Metal with rough vocals, idiotic lyrics [sic!] And a Glen Benton that you certainly don't have to like”. Alain Strasser cites the band's early work, especially Legion and the debut album Deicide , as an explanation of why the band was “so present in the band despite“ Glen Benton's escapades at live concerts and moderate albums ”, which would have damaged the band's reputation Is metal media and unites a considerable crowd behind it ”. Benton manages "somehow, despite not having an extraordinary voice, never to make his vocal lines sound monotonous". The only drawback he mentioned was the short playing time. The album is considered a death metal classic.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mark Prindle: Glen Benton interview. Prindle Rock And Roll Record Review Site, 2004, accessed August 22, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c d Alain Strasser: Deicide Legion. (No longer available online.) Metal1.info, April 6, 2013, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 22, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Michael Rensen: Deicide . Legion. In: Rock Hard . ( rockhard.de [accessed on August 22, 2013]).
- ↑ Darren Cowan: Deicide. (No longer available online.) Blistering.com, p. 1 , archived from the original on April 23, 2016 ; accessed on August 22, 2013 . 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.
