Deicide have offered up details on their new album Banished by Sin, arriving April 26th. The death metal vets also dropped a new single titled “Sever the Tongue.”
After teasing the album with a Christmas surprise in the form of the festive lead single “Bury the Cross…with Your Christ”, frontman Glen Benton and company have unveiled the full info on Banished by Sin, which runs 12 tracks and is adorned with an interpretation of the iconic demon medallion from the band’s 1990 debut LP.
Picking up where the band left off with their X-mas gift, “Sever the Tongue” is a decadent brand of brutality, with barrages of technical riffing and an unrelenting torrent of guttural heresy from Benton. The David Brodsky-helmed music video is gorey and equally blasphemous — tongues are indeed severed — so view it with discretion.
“I’ve been sitting in a dark corner for several years now,” Benton revealed in the album announcement. “A few things have come into my life that have shaken and changed me. I got inspired writing this new record — it was like flipping a switch. I no longer have the aggravation of other peoples’ hangups interfering with what I have and want to do. I stopped chasing everybody else’s happiness a long time ago. The guy who started this shit is back! And it’s good to be back!”
As for the musical direction of the new album, Benton said that Deicide are “back to the 1990s style” with some “modern stuff in there, too.”
“It’s Deicide the way it was meant to be,” he stated.
You can stream the video for “Sever the Tongue” below. See the album art and tracklist below, and pre-order the LP via Rising Phoenix Music.
Banished by Sin Artwork:
Banished by Sin Tracklist:
01. From Unknown Heights You Shall Fall
02. Doomed To Die
03. Sever The Tongue
04. Faithless
05. Bury The Cross…With Your Christ
06. Woke From God
07. Ritual Defied
08. Failures Of Your Dying Lord
09. Banished By Sin
10. A Trinity Of None
11. I Am I…A Curse Of Death
12. The Light Defeated
