Deicide
Till Death Do Us Apart

After the dismal figure they cut in the second part of the tour supporting the successful 2006 album "The Stench of Redemption," due to the masochistic decision by leader Glen Benton not to participate in the European leg of the tour, here comes the brand new "Till Death Do Us Apart" hitting the stores, trailing a damn yet annoying aura of pure skepticism. Believe me, once again there's reason to reconsider one of the most perverse and contradictory death metal bands on our planet that still won't give up, especially now that they have released this gem deserving more than just a listen.

To cut a long story short and get to the point of the matter, the ninth official album by Deicide is a tour de force impressing not just a little with the deep innovations no one could have imagined following their declared and insistent crisis. Without a doubt, worth mentioning are the two instrumental pieces "The Beginning of the End" and "The End of the Beginning," which occupy the first and last track of the album respectively, serving to open and close the satanic dances almost theatrically. Even the diabolical creatures will have the opportunity to complete their celebrations through this album which offers dreamlike, apocalyptic, mephitic tracks, loaded with doom and negative sensations that wouldn’t be wrong to trace back to Crowbar, to the grimiest Cathedral, and to the velvety death metal suggested by the refined My Dying Bride. "In the Eyes of God" is truly the anthem of the entire album, with extremely fast, sharp, and piercing guitar riffs throughout their flow, with unbelievable drum pummelings reminiscent of deadly machine guns, and a growl voice that we all have already appreciated throughout their interesting and twisted discography. Once again, Steve Asheim wanted to experiment with something new, and he showed it with long, technically structured pieces like "Not As Long As We Both Shall Live" and "Horror In The Halls Of Stone." However, oddities and eccentricities aside, this is still an album in which the charisma and infernal abilities of the leader and his trusty Ralph Santolla reign supreme in tracks like "Angel of Agony" and "Hate of All Hatreds," while they pay heartfelt tributes to their early career through the somber "Severed Ties" and with the same title track "Till Death Do Us Apart."

The question we all asked ourselves after finishing listening to the album was: "But will they go on tour?" There is no answer yet, and it’s truly crazy that hundreds of metalcore bands fill clubs and venues scattered all over the planet without any problem, while these masters of the extreme cannot move an inch out of the place where they live! Mystery, pathos, and unpredictability keep the allure of this legendary death metal band of the international scene alive.

...they seem like the only and inimitable Sex Pistols of death metal...[cit.]