On June 25, 1990, Tampa death metal band DEICIDE released their self-titled debut album through Roadrunner Records. Recorded at Morrisound Recording with Scott Burns producing, the album announced DEICIDE as one of the most extremist and uncompromising forces in extreme metal. Vocalist and bassist Glen Benton's Satanic lyrical themes, delivered with savage intensity and double-tracked vocal extremity, combined with the twin-guitar assault of Eric and Brian Hoffman and Steve Asheim's ferocious drumming to produce one of the most viscerally brutal debuts in metal history. Tracks including "Lunatic of God's Creation," "Sacrificial Suicide," and "Dead by Dawn" became death metal standards. The album's production — Scott Burns's signature Morrisound sound — defined the aesthetic of an era. DEICIDE's debut remains a landmark of American death metal, foundational to the genre's development and still devastating in its unrelenting extremity over three decades later.
