->''Give praise to Satan! He has won!''

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[[caption-width-right:350:Classic line-up. From ''Once Upon the Cross.'']]

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Deicide are an American DeathMetal band forming in the late 80s. They got their start sometime in the mid-80s as Carnage, a cover band comprised of the Hoffman brothers and Steve Asheim that played Slayer, Exodus, Celtic Frost, and Dark Angel covers. At some point later on, Brian Hoffman called Glen Benton in response to an ad that the latter had placed in a local music magazine. Benton accepted the offer, and they got together writing music under the name Amon; within a month, they had recorded the crude ''Feasting the Beast'' 8-track demo in Benton's garage and had started playing the occasional gig in the Tampa area. In 1989, Amon recorded their second demo, ''Sacrificial'', at Morrisound with producer Scott Burns.

After signing onto Creator/RoadrunnerRecords, the band's name was changed to Deicide at their request, then they finally got to the recording of their SelfTitledAlbum, and they had gotten along since then...

Until 2004, when animosity between the Hoffmans and the rest of the band that had been building for years came to a head and resulted in the Hoffmans leaving, with Dave Suzuki and Jack Owen being live replacements for the band. Afterwards, Ralph Santolla joined the band full time for ''The Stench of Redemption'', only to leave later to join Music/{{Obituary}}. Afterwards, The band wrote ''Till Death do Us Part'' as a trio with Santolla contributing session leads.

In 2009, they signed with Century Media, following the return of Santolla for ''To Hell With God''. Santolla left again, begin replaced by Kevin Quirion (who had been an on-off live fill-in for some time and had also played with Asheim in Order of Ennead). They finished a new album called ''In the Minds of Evil'', which has been released on November 25, 2013.

At some point in 2016, Jack Owen either left or was fired (his version of events was that he was let go of after finishing up a tour filling in for Carach Angren on guitars), and Mark English (Monstrosity) took his place. A new album is in the works for a prospective 2018 release, and as of February 2018, they are finishing it up. ''Overtures of Blasphemy'' was released September 14, 2018.

As of 2023, their 13th studio album ''Banished by Sin'' has been completed, with a release date confirmed for 2024.

!!!Members:
* Steve Asheim – drums, occasional guitars (1987–present)
* Glen Benton – bass, lead vocals (1987–present)
* Kevin Quirion – guitars, backing vocals (2008–2009, 2009–2010, 2011–present)
* [[Music/TheAbsence Taylor Nordberg]] – guitars (2022–present)

!!!Notable Past Members:
* Eric Hoffman – guitars (1987–2004)
* Brian Hoffman – guitars (1987–2004)
* [[Music/{{Obituary}} Ralph Santolla]] – guitars (2005–2007, 2008, 2010–2011) (Died in 2018)
* [[Music/CannibalCorpse Jack Owen]] – guitars (2004–2016)
* Mark English - guitars (2016-2019)
* Chris Cannella - guitars (2019-2022)

!!!Discography:
* ''Deicide'' (1990)
* ''Legion'' (1992)
* ''Once Upon the Cross'' (1995)
* ''Serpents of the Light'' (1997)
* ''Insineratehymn'' (2000)
* ''In Torment in Hell'' (2001)
* ''Scars of the Crucifix'' (2004)
* ''The Stench of Redemption'' (2006)
* ''Till Death Do Us Part'' (2008)
* ''To Hell with God'' (2011)
* ''In the Minds of Evil'' (2013)
* ''Overtures of Blasphemy'' (2018)
* ''Banished By Sin'' (2024)
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!!Where's my crucifix? ''I CAN'T TROPE WITHOUT IT!''
* AnimalWrongsGroup: Glen once killed a squirrel with a BB gun during an interview. He had relatively good reasons for doing so - they were infesting his house and chewing up every electrical cord they could get their fangs on - but since Glen earlier had bragged about [[ForTheEvulz killing and burning small animals for fun]], the band quickly became a victim of these. It culminated in somebody stopping one of their shows by [[EpicFail detonating a bomb outside of a blast-proof door, at the wrong end of the building, while the opening act was playing.]]
* TheAlcoholic: Supposedly the reason why Ralph was kicked out; Glen is a notoriously apocryphal source for a lot of things, but this version of events has been backed by multiple other people.
* AscendedExtra: Chris Cannella was a longtime friend of the band before he joined in 2019, as was Taylor Nordberg when he joined in 2022.
* BadassBiker: Glen Benton.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Phil Fasciana of Malevolent Creation fame compares the music to Music/{{Slayer}}, saying that "It was like Slayer intensified a thousand times."
* DrugsAreBad: If you are Eric Hoffman, heavy steroid usage when combined with bipolar disorder will prove to be a PsychoSerum and make you highly unstable. Back when he quit, he would apparently drive to Steve Asheim's house late at night to scream at and threaten him through the window (given the fact that Steve has a fairly large gun collection, it is a wonder that he was not shot), and his Facebook rants about Glen, Steve, and (as of recent) his brother have become the stuff of legend.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The self-titled was much thrashier than their later material, and Steve Asheim had not yet started using blastbeats (which would later become an integral part of his style).
* FacialMarkings / CoolScars: Glen has an inverted cross burned into his forehead. Yes ''burned'', not tattooed.
* {{Flanderization}}: Downplayed. [[ReligionRantSong Anti-Christianity]] has always been a part of their lyrics, hence their name, but they contained stronger Satanic overtones, as well as songs about horror movies and cults. Nowadays, their lyrics are mostly just purely blasphemous with little variety.
* GunNut: Steve Asheim is a known gun collector.
* ItsAllAboutMe: This could be Glen Benton's personal trope. Time and time again, he has proven to be one of the most egotistical frontmen in death metal. He creates drama where none exists for no other real apparent reason than attempting to be relevant.
* {{Jerkass}}: Glen Benton has developed quite the reputation for extreme arrogance and uncalled-for rudeness over the years, while Eric Hoffman is equally notorious for his extremely unpleasant and needlessly confrontational personality.
* LeadBassist: Glen is a type B and C.
* LeadDrummer: Steve Asheim is one of the most well-known and influential drummers in death metal in addition to being a multi-instrumentalist who has been the main composer for much of the band's lifespan (''In the Minds of Evil'' being the first album where he did not have the vast majority of the writing credits due to Jack Owen and Kevin Quirion making significant contributions; the Hoffman brothers wrote very little and Ralph wrote nothing save for his own leads and several lead harmonies).
* LongRunnerLineUp: The original lineup stayed for a whopping 17 years before Glen kicked the Hoffmans out.
* MetalScream: While [[Music/{{Suffocation}} Frank Mullen]] was probably the TropeCodifier for guttural vocals (early death metal vocals were generally a deeper, throatier rasp or snarl), Glen is a strong contender for being the UrExample of gutturals, as his lows were closer to a bellow than any of his contemporaries. He also was one of the first purveyors of the [[SopranoAndGravel "gutturals and shrieks"]] dynamic that has since become a mainstay of death metal, though his tendency to multitrack and layer his vocals means that many of his highs have to be performed by other vocalists live.
* MotorMouth: Glen could vocalize incredibly fast in the band's early days. Just you try to growl along to "Mephistopheles" or "Holy Deception".
* NewSoundAlbum: ''The Stench of Redemption'' introduced noticeable melodic elements and neoclassical shred leads thanks to the influence of Ralph and Jack.
* PersonaNonGrata: Essentially banned in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts due to an unspecified incident that occurred in the late 1990s that resulted in an active warrant for Glen's arrest. Basically, they ''can'' go there, but Glen will likely be arrested if they do so. It has been rumored that the warrant is no longer active, but the band only plays in Connecticut, Rhode Island, or New Hampshire when they do play New England.
* ReadTheFinePrint: According to Glen, a failure to do this was what finally got the Hoffman brothers to leave. Relations between them and the rest of the band had been deteriorating for years, but it wasn't until a new contract that laid out new royalty distribution terms that the shit really hit the fan. Basically, the new terms boiled down to "you get paid for what you write," while the old contract was a four-way split. As the Hoffmans did not write that much, they had not earned that much in royalties under the new contract, and from what Glen said, it appeared that they did not even read the damn thing before signing it and then flipped the fuck out when their shares suddenly became a hell of a lot smaller.
* ReligionRantSong: Their main lyrical theme.
* RevolvingDoorBand: Averted, the original line up stuck until 2004, and even then, there have been little to no real changes in the lineup.
* RockMeAsmodeus: The main lyrical theme in their early days. Their later work generally focuses less on Satanism and more on simply hating Christianity.
* SiblingTeam: The Hoffmans were this for a while up to and including the first few years of Amon after they got the rights to the name back. Brian, however, left the latter in 2011, and the two are no longer on speaking terms.
* SopranoAndGravel: Glen was one of the first death metal vocalists to employ the "low growl/high shriek" approach that later became a mainstay of the genre.
* SpecialGuest: This was largely Mark English's role; while he did play shows with the band and tracked his portion of the leads on ''Overtures of Blasphemy'', he was mostly an interim player, and once Monstrosity finally got ''The Passage of Existence'' out in 2018, the likelihood of future scheduling conflicts emerged and Mark was replaced by Chris Cannella in early 2019.
* StartMyOwn: After the Hoffman brothers got kicked out, they got the rights to their old band name, ''Amon'', and continued writing music under that name. Brian himself left Amon in 2011 and went on to start Kill Mode.
* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Glen was originally just a bassist; back when Amon first formed, they had a standalone vocalist. The vocalist was apparently pretty bad, however, and Glen decided to give vocals a shot after they kicked him out. The rest was history.
* TakeThat: "Misery of One" is a pretty clear attack on Eric Hoffman and basically accuses him of being a delusional child who caused all of his own problems and continues to blame Glen for everything rather than taking responsibility for any of it.
* TechnicalDeathMetal: ''Stench'' displayed some elements of such.
* TitleOnlyChorus: "Satan Spawn the Caco-Daemon" among others
* TropeCodifier: Along with Music/MorbidAngel, they did this for death metal. Prior to their self-titled and the former's ''Altars of Madness'', most death metal was just very heavy thrash; those two albums established the melodic ideas and riffing conventions that became unique to death metal, and while the self-titled was definitely thrashier than ''Altars'', it still had all of those elements front and center.
* VocalEvolution: Starting with ''The Stench of Redemption'', Glen's growls became noticeably deeper and less decipherable.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Glen utilizes this effect frequently by layering his vocals.

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