2026 Anniversary Series 100: Deicide – The Stench of Redemption

Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 22nd August 2006 Floridian legends Deicide are a band that every death metal head knows very well, for better or worse. Their legendary three album run from debut is to this day, one of the most unfuckable trio of records in the genre. The three that followed them, not so much. But they had started to come back again on 2004’s ‘Scars of the Crucifix’, an album we featured a few years back on this very series! 2006’s ‘The Stench of Redemption’ was a whole different ballgame, as it was the first without founding members Eric and Brian Hoffman, who had quit the band in acrimonious circumstances in 2004. But Glen Benton and Steve Asheim had a solution, and that was to revitalise the band’s fortunes. Twenty years on, this record still stands tall as one of the band’s best. The most obvious change for Deicide here was the addition of Jack Owen (Cannibal Corpse) and Ralph Santolla (Iced Earth) on guitars, and I mean no offence to the Hoffman brothers who…

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