Glen is pretty rad! My band got a request to record some music ASAP and Deicide were in the studio working on their latest, but they were chill enough to move around their schedule and allow us to get in the studio. Pretty awesome move by those guys!
That's cool to hear. He's been around for decades and could have easily just been a dick and pulled seniority. Nice to know he isn't 100% full of himself.
Saw them x2 on the death in the Manger tour. It's nice seeing dudes at the top of the genre walking amongst the fans, watching the opening acts, talking about music.
The rumors of a rehearaal/ demo version of 'Legion', those keep me up at night. Presented to the label, the whole tape clocked in at just over 27 minutes! That's at least 5 minutes faster than I recall. Because it wasn't a Full-length LP, if slowed something down, just a little, it'd be a vinyl they could print profitably. Trying to imagine 'Legion' as the ultimate death metal Speedrun. I've always thought that if Slayer had continued the upwards climb in extremity, hypothetically getting even faster after 'Reign...', we would, eventually, arrive at a Deicide album.
Yep agree a band shall share. I found Glens rebuttal. J. Bennett of Decibel magazine (web site) recently conducted an interview with DEICIDE frontman Glen Benton. An excerpt from the chat follows: Decibel: Has it been weird writing songs without the Hoffman brothers [Eric and Brian, former DEICIDE guitarists]? Benton: "It's been the fucking greatest thing in the world. Those two are a couple of idiots, man. I hate Eric and Brian Hoffman more than anything in this world, and I will not rest until I put shit straight with the fans. Up 'til now, everybody thinks I kicked them out of the band, but nobody kicked anybody out. They quit on their own, and I wanna set the record straight in regard to those two fuckin' pricks." Decibel: What happened exactly? Benton: "It's real simple: Eric Hoffman has a fucking steroid problem, and he's bi-polar. Brian married some young broad who's running his life for him. What initially happened is that when our publishing deal ended with Roadrunner, and our new deal started with Earache, we put them on notice that our publishing was no longer gonan be split four ways - it's gonna be based on who writes what. That's the industry standard. Brian writes one song for the album, Eric writes two songs and they wanna get paid for all the songs Steve [Asheim, drums] wrote. That's not fuckin' fair. And I wrote all the lyrics, so I'm entitled to 50% of the publishing. Why should I give those two money? They've been losing thousands of dollars for me and Steve for ten years now. If it was one of those things where they showed up and did their jobs, we wouldn't have a fucking problem. That's why the deal we signed [with Roadrunner] in '90 was set up like that. Back then, everybody wrote and contributed and it was a fuckin' group effort. But now me and Steve are the Lennon and McCartney of the band, doing all the writing, and those two wanna get paid for our hard work. Fuck that." Decibel: So they quit? Benton: "When they got their first publishing checks and didn't get paid for all the songs me and Steve wrote, they fucking quit. And now we gotta deal with Eric threatening Steve, driving to his house and screaming outside his window at 10:30 at night, making threatening phone calls, talking shit on Blabbermouth about Steve's dad dying, and all this other bullshit. Eric knows better than to come over here, though - he knows I shoot first and ask questions later." Decibel: Didn't he get busted for steroids? Benton: Yeah, Eric got busted, and when it happened, he put the drugs in his brother's bag and then his brother got busted. [Laughs]" Decibel: Amazing. Benton: "Yeah, they're real nice guys. We're in the process of suing them right now - for slander and everything else, dude. They're going around telling people I'm addicted to methamphetamine. You know what? Who hasn't experimented with a few things in their life? Big deal. So what if I experimented? They did, too! But, look, I don't even drink anymore, man. I mean, I'll have a Heineken every once in a while, but I was drinking a bottle of Jack Daniel's every night before I went onstage and another bottle while I was playing. That starts catching up with you real quick, and I started going blind in my right eye. So after a nice scare at the doctor's office about four years ago, I stopped." Decibel: Aren't the Hoffmans suing you for the rights to the band name? Benton: "They can't do a goddamned thing to me, dude. I own the fucking name. They went behind my back and filed on my trademark, so I'm in the process of suing them to get their names off it. And I will win. They abandoned their jobs, and now they wanna come back. Well, there's no coming back, man. Sorry. It's a better band now because they're gone. They're just a couple of losers, and they rode on me and Steve's coattails for all these years." Decibel's entire interview with Glen Benton can be found in the magazine's April 2006 issue, available on the newsstands right now.
I hung out w Steve and Rob from cannibal after the Kreator/obituary show last year in Tampa , bumped into them at the bar next to the venue, yeah don’t try & outdrink them ..... losing proposition:)
They got really money hungry and started putting on shit bands and repressing/repackaging all their classics 3x/year with gimmicks like full dynamic range versions. A real shame.
it's how the record was originally released, and in many cases was released the same way on later represses that were remastered. I have FDR's and 90's reissues of many, it's dumb
gustavo fernandes My favorite has to be Grey Skies and Electric Light, you can really hear the Type O Negative influence on that album. Another majorly underrated band!
Glen is pretty rad! My band got a request to record some music ASAP and Deicide were in the studio working on their latest, but they were chill enough to move around their schedule and allow us to get in the studio. Pretty awesome move by those guys!
That's cool to hear. He's been around for decades and could have easily just been a dick and pulled seniority. Nice to know he isn't 100% full of himself.
I remember Peter from Vader said that guys from Deicide were one of most helpful on the tour, behind the stage very chilled out and no pressure
@@zielony600 cool to know. Glen gets a bad rap.
"When it comes to, 'you gotta drink with Deicide, ya gotta drink with Deicide.'"
Saw them x2 on the death in the Manger tour. It's nice seeing dudes at the top of the genre walking amongst the fans, watching the opening acts, talking about music.
2:19 'We went to various other clubs' definetly not code word for strip clubs, no way
He says "we went to nefarious other clubs" but yeah means what you said, strip club lol.
great band.... i really like how so many of their albums sound different, but still brutal
yes difrent sound production only....
British American Australian accent,
THE ETERNAL SCHOOL he is all Aussie
Haha I thought his accent is awesome
The rumors of a rehearaal/ demo version of 'Legion', those keep me up at night. Presented to the label, the whole tape clocked in at just over 27 minutes! That's at least 5 minutes faster than I recall. Because it wasn't a Full-length LP, if slowed something down, just a little, it'd be a vinyl they could print profitably. Trying to imagine 'Legion' as the ultimate death metal Speedrun.
I've always thought that if Slayer had continued the upwards climb in extremity, hypothetically getting even faster after 'Reign...', we would, eventually, arrive at a Deicide album.
It's funny you mentioned that because when I saw them on the to hell with God Tour in Iowa I asked Glenn about that. And he said it was all lie.
The intro to all these 30years of earache is DYING FETUS.. am i right? Fucking love them
Sounds like it yea.
Deicide is bad ass
Yes! bad ass! the worst ass!
@@Demogorgo if you don't like Deicide , what are you doing here?
Why don’t you talk about the fact you’re still giving all of the Eric and Brian’s royalties to Glen?
Amon brother!
Yep agree a band shall share. I found Glens rebuttal.
J. Bennett of Decibel magazine (web site) recently conducted an interview with DEICIDE frontman Glen Benton. An excerpt from the chat follows:
Decibel: Has it been weird writing songs without the Hoffman brothers [Eric and Brian, former DEICIDE guitarists]?
Benton: "It's been the fucking greatest thing in the world. Those two are a couple of idiots, man. I hate Eric and Brian Hoffman more than anything in this world, and I will not rest until I put shit straight with the fans. Up 'til now, everybody thinks I kicked them out of the band, but nobody kicked anybody out. They quit on their own, and I wanna set the record straight in regard to those two fuckin' pricks."
Decibel: What happened exactly?
Benton: "It's real simple: Eric Hoffman has a fucking steroid problem, and he's bi-polar. Brian married some young broad who's running his life for him. What initially happened is that when our publishing deal ended with Roadrunner, and our new deal started with Earache, we put them on notice that our publishing was no longer gonan be split four ways - it's gonna be based on who writes what. That's the industry standard. Brian writes one song for the album, Eric writes two songs and they wanna get paid for all the songs Steve [Asheim, drums] wrote. That's not fuckin' fair. And I wrote all the lyrics, so I'm entitled to 50% of the publishing. Why should I give those two money? They've been losing thousands of dollars for me and Steve for ten years now. If it was one of those things where they showed up and did their jobs, we wouldn't have a fucking problem. That's why the deal we signed [with Roadrunner] in '90 was set up like that. Back then, everybody wrote and contributed and it was a fuckin' group effort. But now me and Steve are the Lennon and McCartney of the band, doing all the writing, and those two wanna get paid for our hard work. Fuck that."
Decibel: So they quit?
Benton: "When they got their first publishing checks and didn't get paid for all the songs me and Steve wrote, they fucking quit. And now we gotta deal with Eric threatening Steve, driving to his house and screaming outside his window at 10:30 at night, making threatening phone calls, talking shit on Blabbermouth about Steve's dad dying, and all this other bullshit. Eric knows better than to come over here, though - he knows I shoot first and ask questions later."
Decibel: Didn't he get busted for steroids?
Benton: Yeah, Eric got busted, and when it happened, he put the drugs in his brother's bag and then his brother got busted. [Laughs]"
Decibel: Amazing.
Benton: "Yeah, they're real nice guys. We're in the process of suing them right now - for slander and everything else, dude. They're going around telling people I'm addicted to methamphetamine. You know what? Who hasn't experimented with a few things in their life? Big deal. So what if I experimented? They did, too! But, look, I don't even drink anymore, man. I mean, I'll have a Heineken every once in a while, but I was drinking a bottle of Jack Daniel's every night before I went onstage and another bottle while I was playing. That starts catching up with you real quick, and I started going blind in my right eye. So after a nice scare at the doctor's office about four years ago, I stopped."
Decibel: Aren't the Hoffmans suing you for the rights to the band name?
Benton: "They can't do a goddamned thing to me, dude. I own the fucking name. They went behind my back and filed on my trademark, so I'm in the process of suing them to get their names off it. And I will win. They abandoned their jobs, and now they wanna come back. Well, there's no coming back, man. Sorry. It's a better band now because they're gone. They're just a couple of losers, and they rode on me and Steve's coattails for all these years."
Decibel's entire interview with Glen Benton can be found in the magazine's April 2006 issue, available on the newsstands right now.
I hung out w Steve and Rob from cannibal after the Kreator/obituary show last year in Tampa , bumped into them at the bar next to the venue, yeah don’t try & outdrink them ..... losing proposition:)
I hanged out too with those amizing guys at tampa after kreator show
Gay
These stories are awesome
I want this dudes life. SERIOUSLY. GIVE IT TO ME. haha
if you have freedom and money , just take it.
sounds almost like a good old pantera story :)
these videos were a great idea
Creature skateboard tshirt
Cool story bro.
NOW GIVE US A NEW DEICIDE RECORD DAMMIT
What happened to Earache? They have like two good bands now.
askingforafriend just dying off basically
They got really money hungry and started putting on shit bands and repressing/repackaging all their classics 3x/year with gimmicks like full dynamic range versions. A real shame.
Full dynamic range isn't a "gimmick." It's how the record is suppose to sound so it's the superior version.
it's how the record was originally released, and in many cases was released the same way on later represses that were remastered. I have FDR's and 90's reissues of many, it's dumb
Word on the street: they weren't good at paying anyone
i like Deicide but the moment i saw the Woods of Yprees Album on the back i like this label alot more :D
gustavo fernandes Woods is an amazing band! Very underrated.
Love that Ypres album
yeah its a great doom metal band for me...
me too for me its my favourite from them
gustavo fernandes My favorite has to be Grey Skies and Electric Light, you can really hear the Type O Negative influence on that album. Another majorly underrated band!
I have a giant deicide chest tattoo:)
I agree with him about drinking with deicide.
When is the new album coming out?
Anyone else notice dying fetus kicks this off?
What song is it?
Mason Stanley praise the Lord from destroy the opposition
Yes, of course... Destroy the Opposition probably DF's best work.
I knew it! That snare is unmistakable!!
Amon ruled
Hell yeah !
When do we get new deicide?
What a great story
HAIL DEICIDE!!
Lol it was if you still alive after drinking with them u passed lol
Which club was that at 1:51
NEVER drink and drive!!!
I drank with Deicide when I was 19 haha
when was steve buff??
Eh look at the picture in the video at the start. Now he's not huge but he's definitely bigger than your average guy
Which song is the one on the outro of that video?
Scars of the crucifix
Good ole Steve......
whats the song at 21 sec
Thegreat Escape Scars of the crucifix
Ok, that's def metal
33 NOT DIE ( LOL )
Immolation>Deicide
OK, but you can like them both
No even a comparation fuck deicide
Hahahaha best story
Like # 666 i am...nice
Deicide: Most overrated Death Metal band of All Time!
HEELSTEVEN MAGGLE maybe overrated but still good.
HEELSTEVEN MAGGLE nahh Deicide are legends. Listen to the first four albums front to back
get buck98 The first four albums are great, the rest is just whatever.
Glenn Benton used to be a great vocalist, you could actually hear what he was saying, but now he sounds like he has marshmallows in his mouth.
HEELSTEVEN MAGGLE lol