Deicide Gets Support

Floridian veteran death metallers Deicide have revealed to England's Terrorizer Magazine that their new deal with Earache Records gives the band something their previous label, Roadrunner Records, didn't: support.

"We signed the contract on Halloween day. We picked a good day for it," explained frontman and bassist Glen Benton. "We signed for one record and we'll see how it goes. If everyone's happy, we'll sign for another. We need a label to provide us with promotion, a label that's glad to have us. It seems they wanna get all the extreme bands. They wanna support this shit and keep it goin'."

"We'd been talkin' to 'em for a while, man," Benton said to Terrorizer about how the deal was sealed. "We laid low for a little while and I talked to a lot of record companies, but Earache were the only ones to offer the deal that we wanted. We've been doin' this for years and we need a deal that's not all in the label's favor."

Most of the death metal world has written Deicide off, yet Benton seems to think the band's Earache debut will silence critics and appeal to fans outside the band's core fanbase: "We've got more material than we know what to do with! Now we're doing records for us so it's back to the old thinking and the old ways of writing. We're writing to beat all — that's the way we do things. We're goin' back to our roots — who cares about musical logic? Fuck musical logic."

Deicide are looking to head into an unspecified studio in March 2003, and are touring to drum up support for the album. We'll have more news on Deicide as it happens. Stay tuned.

Source: Digitalmetal