Album Review: Deicide – Banished By Sin

Review by Rick Eaglestone for MPM

Benton and his blasphemous brood return with twelve new infernal anthems on Banished By Sin

Ok, Ok lets firstly address the Christian in the room – The new album artwork. It has certainly been divisive so much so that even before the official release the band’s overlord himself Glen Benton spoke about in his own delicate way.

Below is a mere snippet of his feelings but it is the part where you really get where is at with the decision process

“I don’t do the same album artwork over and over and over again, and I don’t use these scribble artists to create these logos that you cannot read or make out. I’m just not into that shit. All these wannabe Rembrandts and shit, man. You know what? I design artwork around the whole thing, man. And I don’t take other people’s feelings or their ideas ,or I don’t sit here and think, ‘Well, what’s this blue-haired kid in Nebraska gonna think about the album cover?’ I do what I do because I like it, and I don’t give a shit what anybody else thinks.

So if it pisses people off… And it’s really more like these bandwagon little shitheads; they all wanna jump on the bandwagon, ‘Boohoohoo.’

Opener From Unknown Heights You Will Fall is a thunderous return to form, so much so that I genuinely taken aback, it begins with ominous tones which quickly manifest into a spiral of dominant basslines and pummelling drum patters with a trademark vocal delivery.

Doomed to Die dominates with its lyrical prowess laden with a storm of solos, before the bands most recent single Sever The Tongue rings through – its worth nothing that this track has a really good accompanying video that is well worth your time checking out.

Deicide have never been curators of long drawn-out offerings, Faithless for me is the highlight of the album, there is a very subtle tinge of atmospherics there but its frankly encased a cage of relentless savagery and unforgiving punishment, this for me is quintessential Deicide and if you disagree they follow this up with Bury The Cross…With Your Christ! Easily the best section of the album no question

Benton has stated that his inspiration for writing this album was like flipping a switch and as the album moves into Woke From God & Ritual Defied you really get the sense that this album is has been crafted with real enthusiasm and musical compatibility both in lyrical construction and musical structure.

Failures of Your Dying Lord lingers like a loyal servant for the album’s title track Banished By Sin which has a great stomping quality to it that once again makes the overall presentation of the album standout.

The albums final unholy trinity begins with A Trinity Of None goes kicking a screaming possessed into I Am I…A Curse Of Death before concluding with The Light Defeated featuring some vile vocals and visceral lathering of future offerings maybe?

“You lose everything once you compress,” Benton says. “You compressing everything while you’re recording it, and then you’re compressing the s**t out of it while you’re mixing it, and then you’re compressing the f**k out of it while you’re mastering it. I didn’t want to lose the magic this time. Josh Wilbur did an incredible job keeping my vision intact—exactly how I wanted it to sound. I can’t thank him enough for doing that. I’m pretty pleased with the production. Everybody did a f**king fantastic job on this record—it sounds the closest to old Deicide

Usually considered unlucky, Banished By Sin may be the band’s Thirteenth album but, in all honesty, start to finish its felt like a baptism of rediscovery and the band have incorporated the nostalgic anger of the 90’s with an even more future focused trident of terror.

“I’m at peak performance now,” warns Benton. “A Glen Benton doing this for fun is a dangerous Glen Benton. We’re going to brutalize this planet. We’re coming for you!”

“Banished By Sin” Track listing.

1. From Unknown Heights You Will Fall
2. Doomed To Die
3. Sever The Tongue
4. Faithless
5. Bury The Cross…With Your Christ
6. Woke From God
7. Ritual Defiled
8. Failures Of Your Dying Lord
9. Banished By Sin
10. A Trinity Of None
11. I AM…A Curse Of Death
12. The Light Defeated

Line-up:
Glen Benton – Bass/Vocals
Kevin Quirion – Guitars
Taylor Nordberg – Guitars
Steve Asheim – Drums

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