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FatherAlabaster
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Legion rules. I'd take that over the self titled any day.

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Once Upon The Cross was the one that really sold me on Deicide when I was a teenager... it's also (for me) their last good album. Legion is my top pick - ugly, nasty, barely controlled.

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I actually really like Deicide. I have heard some of their more recent stuff and quite liked it. I thought Stench of Redemption was a great album. I think they've always been a pretty one-dimensional band. They really ran out of ideas after their first album. The whole band is just one idea: blasphemous, vicious Death Metal. They're still enjoyable, but you're gonna be disappointed if you expect anything particularly groundbreaking from them.

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Ok, I finally listened to Stench Of Redemption last night. I think it's only "good" because it was coming off the heels of some really shitty albums. They did sound kind of excited again, but the riffs were boilerplate for the most part, and really, did every fucking song need three solos? I'm not much for most solos to begin with but this stuff sounded like pointless flash that didn't move the songs forward. The vocals were pretty strong, but the album's only redeeming feature was that it didn't suck... Maybe the title was a clever pun? Not good enough to warrant the praise it received at the time. I still haven't heard anything else from them that's as cool as Legion.

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I'm probably the biggest Benton hater out there but I'll give credit where it's due and this sounded halfway decent. He's at least making an attempt to enunciate and get the marbles out of his mouth this time around. I gave up on Deicide for a few reasons. One, after the brothers were gone I was just done. (Amon is awesome though!!) Though I will say Stench Of Redemption had some great guitar work..it's just that Benton's vocals to me sound like crap. He doesn't enunciate pretty much at all, he kind of gargles now instead of growls and really I think he stance on Christianity and this "cartoon character" he's become regarding interviews and his attitude in general may have worked on us when we were in our teens but now? C'mon man it's just getting ridiculous. Again, this sounded like a step in the right direction but the money I would have spent on this I already gave to Brian and Eric's fantastic Amon album. In the end, regardless of what I think of Benton. The self titled, Legion, Once Upon The Cross..even Scars and Serpents--all have a special place in my music collection.

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and really' date=' did every fucking song need three solos? I'm not much for most solos to begin with but this stuff sounded like pointless flash that didn't move the songs forward. [/quote'] Great point. I think this maybe because of Santolla. I think he's a great player but he kind of forces solos all over the place. This was what caused me to get bored of my beloved Obituary. All the intro solos and forced crap all over the place on Darkest Days...the more he did it the less exciting the songs became. Obituary more than anyone in the genre keeps it simple and groovy, wtf with all the riffs and solos every 2 seconds? It turned me off. He comes off to me more of a power metal/traditional guy and I think he forces things where they don't belong and that actually takes away from a potentially great and creative piece of music.
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Stench of Redemption was the band's swansong, and yes every song needed 5 solos as far as I'm concerned as the Hoffman brother's had sucked the talent well for every shitty album released after Once upon the cross. Santolla was the musician the band needed as the band had reached their creative nadir, they can only re-utilize the same shitty thrash riff and Asheim's blasts until you realize its the same thing every song. Without Santolla the band is just circling the wagons, though they've been terrible for almost two decades the riffs and solos on Stench are amazing

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Re: Deicide

I think Dead But Dreaming is my favorite on the album, but all of the songs are great, just not as memorable as those on the debut. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
I suppose you're right. I hadn't thought about it that way. I still prefer the complexity of Legion, but it does make the songs less memorable. The last album they did before they finally figured out how to write the boring, formulaic death metal they apparently aspired to. Though the song Once Upon The Cross still gets me fired up.
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My favorite song is Blaspherereion. And I've seen them a couple of times live now. (should have seen them twice as much if they wouldn't cancel their tours so often) Glenn Benton is probably a douchebag, but he has great vocals. It even sounds evil when he's just talking.
No, he's just old fat and lazy
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