Deicide Australian Tour April 2009

After issues with promoters earlier this year, and a canceled Australian tour for 2008, Florida-based death metal veterans DEICIDE have scheduled the following dates in Australia and New Zealand for 2009!

April 04 - Transmission Room - Auckland, NZ
April 05 - QUT Guild Bar - Brisbane, AUS
April 06 - The Corner Hotel - Melbourne, AUS
April 07 - The Manning Bar - Sydney, AUS
April 08 - Capitol - Perth, AUS

Make sure you get out to one of the following shows!

Deicide Cancel Australian Tour

So, Australia, because international bands love us so much, another has decided to cancel a tour with little to no explanation as to why. Deicide's Australian tour which was to take place in December has been canceled, with only the following announcement from promoters to go by: "We were advis​ed that the band decided that they do not want to tour Austr​alia this year."

Those of you fans out there who happened to purchase a ticket, can take it back to the point of purchase for a refund.

This pisses me off personally, and marks the 3rd band I can recall (minus Cavalera Conspiracy getting booted off the Judas Priest lineup) to cancel a tour that I may actually have wanted to attend. Although Lacuna Coil are to return next year for the overpriced suckfest that is Soundwave, it's not a headlining show like they were originally coming for.
The fact that all of these cancellations carried with them little to no explanation as to why they decided not to come is also frustrating. I just hope that bands and promoters lift their game in the future.

CD Review: Order Of Ennead

Order Of Ennead is the resurrection of Council of the fallen, consisting of Kevin Quirion (ex-Council Of The Fallen) on Guitar and vocals, Scott Patrick (ex-Resurrection) on bass, John Li taking care of lead guitars and Steve Asheim (Deicide) on drums. Some will expect this to be as brutal as Deicide, as I did, but you will pleasently surprised.

If you can step aside from the Deicide link here you will find an album that can stand on its two feet. Okay most folk will pick it up due to the drum stool being filled by the legendary Steve Asheim. His brutal skills feature to some degree here, but he shows thats not all he can do.

Playing a perfectly crafted and modern take on Extreme metal (comprising elements of death metal, black metal and a splash of Thrash shredding), Order Of Ennead stand out from the crowd of new bands on the scene. For a start the guitar work would make most young thrash pretenders and old school fretmeisters sit up and pay attention. They also use lyrics that not many death metal bands would use. As they say on their myspace their lyrical content "explores existence, abolishment of negativity and that which makes up the self."; Not standard death metal lyrics. Lyrics which are delivered in a coherent, if a little Dani filth-esqu way.

Standout tracks for me are "Introspection And The Loss Of Denial"; Vocally lead with superb fret work by John Li. At the age of 19, he is showing fretwork here that could have easily been played by some of the guitar greats 20 years his senior. "As If A Rose I Wither" is a perfectly crafted guitar driven track which also showcases Asheims brutal drumming at its best (on this album).

If you are looking at Order Of Ennead as quick fix in between Deicide albums then you will be sadly dissapointed. The vocals are cleaner, the guitars are a lot more melodic and its not ALL brutal blast beats from start to finish.

For a debut this is great.(8/10)

The track Culling can be heard here. Another fine example of that these guys have on offer.

Due for release on Earache In Europe on October 13th and In the US on the 28th.

Order Of Ennead: http://www.myspace.com/orderofennead
Earache: http://www.earache.com/

Deicide To Return To Australia This December

That's right, Florida Based death metallers are returning to destroy out ears with pure, molten hot metal! Make sure you see them at one of these shows.

Dec. 08 - Perth - Club Capitol
Dec. 09 - Adelaide - Fowlers Live
Dec. 10 - Melbourne - Hi Fi Bar
Dec. 11 - Sydney - The Metro
Dec. 12 - Brisbane - The Arena

Their new album 'Till Death Do Us Part' is now out.

Deicide Viral Video Competition

Here's an update from Deicide's official Myspace regarding the competition:

The competition is underway but there is still plenty of time to create a unique video and submit it.
Get creative and show us what you've got!!

Legendary Florida Death Metallers Deicide have announced a unique and exciting competition for fans to create and upload their own video clip for a new Deicide track called In The Eyes Of God taken from their upcoming album Till Death Do Us Part.

Using the track In The Eyes Of God, fans are invited to make their own
video for the song, using whatever means at their disposal.
The clip can be
filmed, animated, drawn or compiled from already existing images or footage. Anything goes so get as creative as you like.

The winner will be judged the clip with the most views on YouTube by the closing date of April 28th 2008 and will win the Grand Prize ? An Ibanez bass guitar fully signed by the band.

Fans can download 'In the Eyes of God' and get full details on how to enter
the competition at earache.com/deicidevideo

All submissions must feature the song in its entirety, and must be uploaded
via YouTube stating 'DEICIDE IN THE EYES OF GOD COMPETITION' in the
title and description.

Please submit the YouTube video URL link of your entry to deicidevideo@earache.com

Submissions are welcomed immediately - GOOD LUCK!

Deicide release 'Till Death Do Us Part' on April 28 in Europe and May 13 in the US.

For Deicide information visit: www.myspace.com/thestenchofredemption

Deicide - Till Death Do Us Part Review

One of the first things that can be said about this album is that Deicide do not want to reinvent the wheel. Which for most fans is always a good thing, although there are some that fault a band no matter what they do with each and every new album.

With Till Death Do Us Part, Deicide show exactly what makes them popular amongst the Death Metal contingent.

A dirge opens the album, with slow winding guitars and double bass kicks going off here and there. This is opener The Beginning of the end. Which continues relentlessly without vocals into a strange fret walk just to set you up for title track, Till death do us part. Benton is on form here with trademark Vocals overpowering the brutality of the musicianship on offer. Note: If I ever understood a Benton Lyric from first listen then this would not be a Deicide album.

There is some amazing fretwork on this album and title track Till death do us part is a fine example of this. While songs in the eyes of God & Hate of all hatreds showcase some of the most brutal drumming I have heard this year.

One downside of Glen Benton's vocals is that they can seem to overpower the music. This can be a good thing, but on some tracks the vocals stand out a little too much. To some degree even going to ruin the song a little. Due to this I can definately say that they will more than likely not win over any new fans with this. This is a definate Deicide fan album.

All this being said Till Death Do Us Part is a brutal offering of one of Death Metals better bands. One of the most Brutal albums this year.

7/10

Standout Track: Till death do us part, Severed Ties

You can hear In the eyes of God here. Enjoy!

Deicide, Till Death Do Us Part is released upon the world on 28th April 2008.