Artist: DEICIDE
Album: BANISHED BY SIN (CD)

Year: 26.04.2024
EAN/UPS: 4251981705309
Media type: CD

Death metal legends Deicide mark their devilish return with their new album, Banished by Sin, through Reigning Phoenix Music. Provacateurs by trade and dominant by nature, the Floridians, featuring founders Glen Benton (bass/lead vocals) and Steve Asheim (drums), as well as notables Kevin Quirion (guitars) and Taylor Nordberg (guitars), have yet again uncompromisingly splayed and slayed the genre's holy trinity of brutality, intensity, and aggression for the world to witness. Just as classic cuts like "Sacrificial Suicide" (Deicide), "Once Upon the Cross" (Once Upon the Cross), and "Homage for Satan" (The Stench of Redemption) elevated the firebrands to death's metal's apex, new songs "Bury The Cross...With Your Christ," "From Unknown Heights You Shall Fall," and "Sever the Tongue" usher in a new chapter in Deicide's storied, 35-year legacy.

"Musically, we're back to the 1990s style," Benton says. "There's modern stuff in there, too. It's Deicide the way it was meant to be. My hooky songs are there, Steve's prog-styled songs are there, and we got Kevin's theme-styled songs. Having Taylor in the band has impacted Deicide greatly. He's a fantastic songwriter and player. He can do anything. The four of us contributed three songs each. I'm back with the high screaming and layering. I'm just absolutely going off on this one. I've been told it's one of my best vocal performances. I'm like Rumpelstiltskin—here to spin your hay into gold. Everybody's going to be pleasantly surprised."

Banished by Sin's lyrics were split between Benton, Asheim, Quirion, and Nordberg. Each had a hand in penning some of the craziest, spiritually antagonistic lyrics to appear on a Deicide album. From "From Unknown Heights You Shall Fall," "A Trinity Of None," and "Bury The Cross…With Your Christ" to "Sever the Tongue," "Failures Of Your Dying Lord," and "I Am I…A Curse Of Death," the foursome mocked, mauled, and left for dead Christendom from every angle. If the gruesome visuals of "Bury the Cross...With Your Christ," fantastically realized by auteurs David Brodsky and Allison Woest of My Good Eye: Music Visuals (Cannibal Corpse, King Diamond), didn't offend, then lines like this from "Sever the Tongue" certainly will, "Wrath of the holy / God is no more / Satan possess me / No savior reborn / F**k your religion / Sever the tongue."

Although Banished by Sin is Deicide's 13th album, they show no signs of slowing down or easing up. That would be anti-Deicide. They've lined up support from SiriusXM's Liquid Metal channel (where "Bury The Cross...With Your Christ" is enjoying top-play success) and have been spotlighted by Apple Music, Spotify, and Tidal. Deicide are slated to headline Decibel's Philadelphia Metal & Beer Fest 2024, with follow-up performances in prestigious spots at Milwaukee Metalfest 2024 and Hellsinki Metal Festival (Finland). Expect North American, European, and other tour announcements to follow. The final line in "Bury The Cross...With Your Christ" sums up what's to come: "Crawl through the darkness and die / Done with religion and calling it quits / Bury the cross with your Christ!"

"I'm at peak performance now," warns Benton. "A Glen Benton doing this for fun is a dangerous Glen Benton. We're going to brutalize this planet. We're coming for you!"

CD/ LP:

1. From Unknown Heights You Shall Fall
2. Doomed To Die
3. Sever The Tongue
4. Faithless
5. Bury The Cross…With Your Christ
6. Woke From God

7. Ritual Defied
8. Failures Of Your Dying Lord
9. Banished By Sin
10. A Trinity Of None
11. I Am I…A Curse Of Death
12. The Light Defeated