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Deicide

Last album: May 13, 2008
First published: January 25, 2009
Downloads: 1948 albums downloaded

Biography

Deicide emerged into the Death Metal scene in 1987 from Florida, USA under the name of Amon. After releasing two demos as "Amon," they changed their name to Deicide in 1990 and released their self-titled album shortly afterwards. Only two original members of the band remain: Glen Benton (bass/vocals)and Steve Asheim (drums) Glen Benton, whose controversial lyrics cover such topics as Satan and death, showed his hatred for Christianity by branding a red-hot inverted cross to his forehead until his skin scarred in that shape. He later sold that cross on Ebay.