RFI Ep. 306: Deicide 

I asked Glen Benton to sign my original copy of Cannibal Corpse's first album because he did guest vocals on a couple tracks. Everyone else from CC put a neat autograph on it for me but Glen just signed his big ass name across the entire front cover lol

Justin Horval using this video as a primary source on his midterm essay and getting marked down for confirmation bias

I hear a lot of people talking shit about Glen Benton for being a rather confrontational and controversial person, but I feel like his personality perfectly fits with the confrontational and controversial nature of Deicide's music. Additionally, Glen is such an exaggerated and over-the-top character that I can't help but find him hilarious even when he's trying to be intimidating or problematic. In other words, J-Dawg may have a lot of silly opinions, but he's right about one thing. If you don't like Deicide, You don't like death metal.

When I saw Deicide live, I couldn't move my neck for about a week after the show. Unforgettable.

The J dawg edits are fucking perfect 👌

Deicide was absolutely groundbreaking, especially those first 3 albums. Some stagnation through the middle of the band's life but their last few efforts definitely showing a renewed spark. Glen is like the archetypal death metal uncle.

I always thought it was Asheim on back vocals, but it was Benton doing three different voices, he's the Elvis of death metal.

I still have that “If you don’t like Deicide you don’t like death metal” sticker I got from Hells Headbangers lol. Hope they do some more tongue in cheek merch like that or at least repress their Blakecrush tshirts. “No reply, no package, no refund, no shame.”

Deicide slaps brah

this video is the kind of conversations I have when i'm drunk and hanging out with other metalheads. subbed.

Once Upon the Cross is 100% my favorite death metal album of all time. Still jam it regularly. There’s nothing angrier imo

Deicide-S/T is my favorite record but the "When London Burns" live album is a close second, mainly because Glenn gets progressively hammered and his insults to the crowd before each song are hilarious.

I met people who hate Deicide and they’re usually listening to “safe stuff” like Frozen Soul and Gatecreeper. Tells you everything about them. Anyways, great episode! Love me some Deicide. The last one I liked by them was Scars of the Crucifix but it’s no Deicide without the Hoffman brothers. Merry Christmas btw Jihub!

I somehow slipped Dead by Dawn past an old video production teacher and got it played in front of the entire school.

Fuckkk yea fucking Deicide

That’s crazy, I’ve been wearing my Deicide “Once upon the Cross” long sleeve I just ordered for the past 3 days. Nice to know somewhere someone is making a Deicide video around the same time

Once upon a cross is my Favorit, but after watching this i have to listen to Legion again. I always enjoy your videos! Cheers from Austria and merry christmas

Appreciate the early present; the first two Deicide records are my favorite death metal albums of all time. All killer, no filler. Merry Christmas my 🥷

Deicide has been on my musical back burner for a while. Appreciate the primer, Mr. RFI.

Hell yeah. Was wondering when this one would happen.

Yes! The vocal cadence. Favorite song Dead By Dawn. I like how you mixed the audio and thanks for doing a video on Deicide!

I might not be all that proud to own the Roadrunner United DVD, but the version of Dead By Dawn with Glen Benton in without the bass and with a full leather exectioner costume is fucking awesome.

The only album I’ve ever heard that sounds of reminds me of Legion, would be Akercocke Goat of Mendes. I agree with you on Legion being one of the most evil death metal albums, period.

🔥Decide🔥!!! Glen featured in two songs for a band from Mex named Transmetal on their 1993 album one song being Infierno De Dante produced by Scott Burns. Also Corpsgrinder on their album after that Mexico Barbaro check out their early work.

It's a christmas miracle! Deicide, the perfect band for the holidays (or any celebration)! A jolly good time with some cozy tunes. Credit where credit is due, Legion really does live up to the reputation of stone cold classic, even with the popularity only a select few death metal bands managed to achieve. The proper evolutionary step in the essence of peak Slayer. The gold standard of controlled chaos, utter depraved catharsis & diabolical evocation, while not losing one bit of purpose in either underlying relation between guitars/bass & drum or in the structure of the arrangement. Utter elite infernal riffage galore above all. Pure distillation of furious vitriol in elite musical form. Hot take, but my favorite brief passage is the very start of the record. The first 30 seconds of unwieldy riffage for Satan Spawn, the Caco-Daemon sound like a prelude to Hernandez-era Immolation, especially the relation between drums (collapsing sacral architecture) & guitars (all-devouring hellfire). It's been a mighty long time since I've heard any Deicide after Once Upon The Cross, but you have convinced me to give the other mentioned titles another shot, when the timing in life suits. Definitely need to give the Exorcist release a shot, the musicians from Virgin Steele really were something special from the get-go with that little milestone. The opinions of etiolated twinks & their wanky necrofagist drivel is obsolete, especially in the face of genuinely cathartic & timeless metal. Admittedly, haven't been listening to as much (new/unknown) extreme metal these months, hence why I'm curious on your thought on the following releases (apologies in advance if I asked these titles before): - Skepticism - Aes + Stormcrowfleet - Adramelch - Irae Melanox - Solitude Aeturnus - Into the Depths of Sorrow + Beyond the Crimson Horizon - Pagan Altar - Mythical & Magical - October Tide - Rain Without End - Esoteric - Metamorphogenesis PS Jiub's dank memes channel got itself a new subscriber, cheers! Respect for the never-ending grind & hails to the niche king! Cheers & best wishes in advance for a merry christmas & a happy new year, ya absolute madlad! ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡° ) (long overdue comment as a wishful push for the algorithm)

With this channel, a video about a well known band feels like the biggest sucker punch ever in a good way

The Ernest edits are wayyy too good 😂

Deicide can do no wrong

INCYNERATEHYMN BROS WE'RE SOOOOO BACCKKKKKKKK

Perfect Xmas episode, took me 20+ years to properly revaluate Deicide, and your highlighting of the elements that made/make them so unique further laid to rest any doubts about their position in the pantheon of death metal gods. Thank you

Destroy the Faceless Dog is one of the greatest death metal live albums I've listened to.

i ripped a bowl at 1:46 and almost threw up

Just recently found your channel and fuck me such a good one. Someone talking about band i like with some depth to it as well. Keep up the good work/Adam from Sweden

I just subbed because J-Dawg mentioned this channel, awesome video - and Exorcist along with Virgin Steele is my favorite band of all metal, so now I gotta watch the Exorcist episode. Great video, man!!!

I love Deicide. Glenn Benton seems like a cool guy nowadays. Who would hate a Death Metal band who wrote a whole album about a divorce? (Til Death Do Us Part) . Once Upon The Cross is good, but I like Serpents of the Light even better. Stench of Redemption I'd put with their first four

Great analysis. Deicide is far from my favorite Death Metal band but I gotta agree that if you don't like them, you may not really like Death Metal.

fuck god, fuck jesus and fuck christmas! I picked up "serpents of the light" in the cutout bin of a local record store for $2, way back in 99. still have it and it used to inspire so much liquor drinking fuckery. cheers rfi!

Been digging into their back catalogue this past year, and so far, it rules. Stench is great, as are the first three records.

glad you covered them. essential.

The under half an hour thing was Once Upon the Cross, not Legion.

It’s not « canon » but i friggin’ love « Desecration » from The Stench… awesome riffs… apart from that, I’m a Serpents of the Light guy through and through

One more thing, you should dive deep into swedish Black metal bands (one man bands) Arckanum and Wagner Ödegård, great stuff.

First 4 albums are all bangers. My favorite of those alternates on a monthly basis.

I have always thought of Deicide as Slayer who leveled up, same band formation too, bass player, 2 guitar players, one blonde one brunette, and an iconic drummer. First Deicide is some of the catchiest death metal ever written, Legion is technical death metal, true technical death metal, of musicians who aren't necessarily musically trained, but pushed their abilities to the limit, Once is kind of a combination of the first 2, and I hate that we can't hear the original version that is like 25 mins, holy shit that would be beautiful. I am not a fan of Serpents, I have tried but it sounds like they were influenced heavily by black metal and plugged a metal zone directly into a recording console, and I am not a fan. Deicide tragically died in a plane crash in 97, RIP.

I got into Legion when it came out, got the self titled very quickly after it, I was around 13. I listened back to both albums a few years ago for the first time in quite a while & I was pleasantly surprised by how unhinged those albums sound. The riffs are heavy and all but some of the arrangements & mostly ol’ Glens vocals are unhinged. Especially for ‘91 or whenever it was.

Saw Decide on Legion tour and was great, haven't been too much into last couple releases but agreed if you don't like Decide you don't like death metal!!!🔥☠️🔥

Father!!!! Why have you forsaken me?!?! I also never understood the hate that "once upon..." got, well maybe not hate, but it wasn't as revered as the first 2. For me it is Deicides #1 in my book. By the way, what do you think about Amon? That one album the Hoffmans released has some great moments and great riffs while still being very uneven and having subpar production. Very weird bunch those brothers, they were prolific with deicide, then boom something happened between them and glen, then they released one uneven album, and it looks like we have seen and heard the last of them.

🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

Finally caught up after watching all your vids , leaves an empty feeling inside ...so what to do ? dammit ill watch em all again xD ..btw have you heard the latest Vargrav album ? they went and dropped album of the year right at the years arse end .

Amon is still my most played dm cassette. The original sacrificial suicide is raw as fuck. The two following albums are good as well.

I was not expecting a DAWG jumpscare 🤣🤣

Amzeing video dude love deicide so much evan most there new stuff as well dude! Also i know ur busy with other vids but one band u should check out dude and retrospect is appling spawn from the czech rebulic really like savage but like intresting melodic/bdm/progressive stuff with like some technical elements if u like intestine baalism mixed with like chaos of like cryptopsy at times but with medival sounding riffs dude with intresting clean parts u will like those dudes really like talented band tho very influenceal to stuff like broken torso and bdm that stared to play around with meldoic stuff dude.fun fact the rest of the bands members started lykathea aflame . Any dude keep up the amazing uploads and hope u get to 20k very soon dude ur channel is amzeing and deserves more subscribers then u have already have .🙂

Sang along to deicide so much now my vocals basically mimic Glenn benton

I like deicide, but they're like sepultura to me. The earlier albums are better as whole, but the better songs come out in the later albums yet it feels like there's more filler. There's a swedish band Luciferion, they've got a bonus track on their first album called the voyager, as they state, dedicated to bands like morbid angel and deicide that I think emulates their sound pretty well. And I think because the song is a beautiful dedication to both band's sounds, it was the tremolo groove with the brutality that really separated them from bands like autopsy, death, suffocation, CC, obituary, etc. Its unfortunate with all these OSDM bands really. Due to one reason or another, the legendary status of their early material made it so that whatever they put out was always going to be seen as inferior unless they pushed boundaries again and set the new standard. An impossible expectation for anybody. As for the arbiters of what is and isn't br0ötal, that's been ruined by 2nd wave+ death core and their 9 string drop G shit with a drummer that might as well be credited to a macbook pro. There's some good ones out they're but they're way too drowned out by the mediocrity And you probably hate shit like this but how much do you know about the french bm scene? Mutiilaton, vlad tepes, anorexia nervosa?

Planetary Duality slander! Jk, great video. Keep it up as always and have a merry xmas!

Deicide deicide is my favorite after then legoin then that once upon the cross...deicide is my favorite band ....i broke my phone so i resubbed

RU-vid decided to be naughty again and didn't send me any notification for the past months I'm glad to see this channel is still up even though I have moved on from my metalhead days. Ns till I die

Deicide. It’s good to be joined by real men that know how to play good death metal.

I never understood why people dismiss Insineratehym. To me, its amazing

A lot of people rank on In Torment In Hell but that’s one of my favorite albums

Love inseneratehymn

I even like the live versions of the songs from " When Satan Lives" better than the originals.

The Korean chick in the JDawg shirt tho

Someone send this to SpongeDawg

Glen said when Incinerate Hym cane iut not to buy it. They were just fulfilling a contract, and it was a piece of shit😂

Cover Woods of Infinity.

finally

Boys will see this and say “hell yeah”

Why you don't guest anymore on Metal Up Your Fash?

yeah

Do you have a link to Exorcist ?

Did Legion really get recorded twice? I find that difficult to believe

Do a video on Malevolent Creation next please

I ❤ The Beatles. Love this band. Yeah these newer tech and core lovers just don't fucking get it. Try to have them down pick at 100 bpm and their arms fall off. Whatever though. Glen is one of the coolest bassist/vocalists though Secthdamon will always be my favorite. Great video man keep them up.

Deicide, yet another awesome sounding band with wanker Satanic lyrics.

You've gone too far this time sir! Insineratehymn and In Torment In Hell are garbage albums, beyond rehabilitation

My introduction to Deicide was seeing Fuck Your God off Scars of the Crucifix on the leaked CIA torture songs list. Still one of my favorite Deicide songs a decade later

Man have you heard their newest album? I legitimately think they've given up, like they're just releasing albums to hold onto the franchise like the Tony Hawk games did haha