If someone were to play a word association game with you and said “Deicide”, what would be the first word to pop into your head? Would it be “claymation”? Nah, I didn’t think so. For me, it would be “motherfucking”. As in “MOTHERFUCKING DEICIDE!!”
But the game may change after you watch the band’s new video for “Conviction”, a song off Deicide’s 2011 album To Hell With God.
Jesus, where to start? Actually, we could start with Jesus, because he’s in the video. He’s not having a good day, because Glen Benton is on his tail, hell-bent on nailing him to a church door and then sending him straight to hell.
I guess Christians who aren’t familiar with Deicide will be offended by this, but it’s not exactly Benton’s first offense. I mean, the guy has branded an inverted cross on his forehead at least 12 different times and 20+ years ago he wrote a song called “Crucifixation”, the first line of which was “Give praise to Satan, he has won.” And that was only the beginning. The damnation of Christ has been a constant Deicide drumbeat for two decades. But now we get the message in claymation. I gotta admit, I didn’t see that coming.
I guess I won’t be surprised if the video causes fresh uproar among people who take Deicide’s schtick seriously, even when a video like this makes it even harder to do that. Maybe after 20+ years, the by-now calculated sensationalism still works. We’ll see.
Don’t get me wrong — the music is still badass, and I am still going to see Deicide when they play here in March with Jungle Rot, Abigail Williams, Lecherous Nocturne, and Super Happy Story Time Land. I just don’t get the urge to do a fist-pump when I watch this video. The urge I feel . . . is to giggle. The video is after the jump.
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That’s some serious Wallace and Gromit shit right there, I tell you what.
I love Deicide, and I think they make killer death metal, but I can’t take them seriously in terms of lyrics. It is, for lack of a better word, campy. It’s like Chic tracks for pissed of Satanists. And that is something that I enjoy a whole hell of a lot.
I knew this was reminding me of something . . . “Wallace and Gromit: The Satanic Verses”!
More like Wallace and Gromit: the Receding Hairline.
ZING!
I couldn’t help but notice it so prominently in the video.
It’s like the big hairy vagina that just stares at you in 70’s porn.
Or so I’m told.
And just where HAS all the pubic hair gone?
Back in the Pandora’s box from whence it came.
*Shudders*
According to Deicide they “shot down the video 6 months ago“. Mr Benton doesn’t seem pleased! 😀
ORLY???
Interesting! More Deicide controversy, of the unintended kind! Maybe his reaction was similar to mine. 🙂
Furious masturbation with a brillo pad?
I admit I’m insensitive, but not that insensitive.
Snip, snip!
You’re making me queasy again.
Oh, now I can’t resist speculating: Century funds the video, though one would think Deicide had some say-so in approving the project; since Deicide isn’t in the video, they probably don’t see it until it’s finished; they see it and don’t like it; but it wasn’t their money behind it, so they can’t veto the release; Century decides to release it anyway; shitstorm begins.
Speculating is so much more fun than having actual facts!
Well, if we’re going with wild speculatin:
The Church of Scientology funded the video and released it in an attempt to discredit Deicide so as to sweep in measuring theatouans (I don’t care how it should be spelled) and steal all their fans.
I think it’s time for you to have your engrams removed with an E-meter audit.
Are you hitting on me? Because I think I can get past the headless thing, but you’re gonna need to grow some slightly larger boobies for this to work.
See above re queasy.
How do you vomit without a head? I mean, does it just spray out the top?
Also, I have a new screen name in memory of my desire to snip, snip you.
Yeah, vomiting is like what happens when an old man with prostate trouble takes a piss.
I don’t like your new screen name.
You LOVE IT!
Well the song’s alright, but to be honest I think the video is GREAT. Immediately stands out and is eminently rewatchable.
Unfortunately Deicide for me are a hit-or-miss prospect, plus one of the bands where I find it hard to separate the personalities (in this case, Glen Benton and his hyper-American personality) from the music. Doesn’t always happen, but does so in this case.
While I think I understand, what do you mean by hyper-American?
Douchebag
Wait… Was that the explanation, or was that flirting with Phro?
^^ This.
a little bit of column A, a little bit of column B
Shhhh…you’ll make Islander jealous!
Hes got to learn sometime
Andy is still bitter over the outcome of the Revolutionary War.
Me, too! I want those fucking working holiday visas that all the other colonies got.