The first Deicide record and the Once Upon the Cross, those two are just ----ing awesome! - Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison (a.k.a #1)
     
      It s almost ten years to the day that Deicide released their still devastating debut, a record Terrorizer magazine (the final authority on extreme music) honored as one of the 100 most important albums of the 1990 s. Indeed, aftershocks of Deicide can still be felt, from the sounds of hardcore heavyweights Hatebreed, to metal phonemes Slipknot not to mention countless death metal plagiarists in between. Deicide remains a true benchmark for brutality, a fact that was never lost on the band s outspoken vocalist/bassist Glen Benton.
     
      When it came down to recording this new record, I wanted to go back to what we did in the beginning, which was to keep it raw, the imposing frontman explains. So we recorded this album in the smallest studio in Morrisound Studios, which is where we recorded the first record. But the emphasis with this new record was to keep it brutal and to keep it straightforward. We just wanted to make it sound like... (More DEICIDE Biography)