Deicide

A punishing American death metal group with a penchant for pairing uncompromising decibels with controversy, Florida's Deicide employ a lethal mix of sonic heft and Satanism. The band emerged in the late 1980s alongside contemporaries like Cannibal Corpse and Carcass, then poisoned the mainstream in 1992 with their sophomore effort Legion, which became one of the best-selling death metal LPs of the Nielsen Soundscan era. Employing a lethal mix of sonic heft and Satanism, Deicide's championing of animal sacrifices and anti-Christianity rhetoric yielded attacks from religious or...