Deicide's Glen Benton: 'It's Kind Of Hard To Write Inspired Music When You Know It's Just Going To Be Given Away'

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"That Drummer Guy" lately sat down for a chat with vocalist/bassist Glen Benton of Florida death metal outfit Deicide. You can stream the entire interview and read a few excerpts below:

Talking about today's music industry Glen states: "Lately, the music scene has been kind of dried up. There hasn't been too many records that have been put out recently that hype things up, that people are excited about, getting their hands out. With the music business now, it's kind of hard to write inspired music when you know it's just going to be given away. It's kind of hard to invest that time and effort into something that's going to be given away. I don't want to say, not everybody, but there's a lot of bands that lost their energy because of that whole thing."

Adds Benton on Deicide's musical progress since 1989:

"That's how it's supposed to happen. That's why you have to sometimes make changes here and there to achieve that ultimate goal, but yeah, that's the ultimate goal is to get better with each record. You can't just stay in 1989. That's just not going to work."