Artist: Deicide
Label: Roadrunner
Release Date: 6/27/00
Average Rating: 2.67
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Title: Insineratehymn Artist: Deicide Label: Roadrunner Release Date: 6/27/00 |
There are currently 6 Reader Reviews of this album.
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Submitted by deadhammer (10/24/02):
Lord Benton and his army lost their touch. Boring riffs. This is good for someone to start listening to Florida Death Metal. Better get their old release.
Submitted by Dave from Buffalo (7/20/01):
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. I love(d) Deicide. This is a band that has always been in my top three list of death metal bands, along with Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse. Not anymore. I was excited on my way to the store to pick this CD up. My subsequent dissapointment still scars me to this day. This CD sounds like a band ripping Deicide off, while also being heavily influenced by the "New York Death Metal" sound. Perhaps, and this is a big maybe, I'd have dug this CD if it wasn't Deicide, but was rather some upstart garage band, but this is not the case. This is Deicide. What the hell happened to the band that created such crushing works as Legion and Once Upon the Cross? Evidently, that Deicide is dead. This CD is slow, lazy, uninspired, and downright bad, if you ask me. Don't forget, I LOVE all of Deicide's past works. I would not recommend this CD to anyone. There are infinitely better releases one can buy. And if the guys in Deicide for some reason ever read this-- come'on guys, get your shit together! I know you're capable of so much more than this pile of crap.
Submitted by Joe McGinnis (9/11/00):
This album is good, but I don't think it has anything on the brutality side of Once Upon a Cross. Some of the riffs sound like they belong on Master Of Puppets or something. Don't get me wrong, I like the album, but I was expecting a little more from these evil bastards. Especially after Serpents of the Light, I think this was like Praying for deliverance to hell and only getting Purgatory.
Submitted by Chris Ayers on 9/5/00:
The Deicide bio this time around flaunts a quote from Slipknot about how influential those death pioneers have been to the development of these masked neo-metallers. True rivetheads might interpret this ploy as sheer blasphemy, using sell-out rockers to market Deicide, of all bands! Truth is, Deicide doesn’t need anyone to tell fans how cool they are, for Insineratehymn speaks volumes. This album is definitely their career best, adding much-needed melody and hooks to their densely packed brand of death. This stylistic development should come as no surprise, as the band has been moving away (albeit at an achingly slow pace) from death’s monotonous grind mentality since 1992’s Legion. A smattering of tracks from ’94’s Once Upon The Cross and ’96’s Serpents Of The Light showed promise but not enough to win over fans who demand more melody for their bucks. ’98’s live When Satan Lives is an incredible account of their onstage musicianship, which made the release of Insineratehymn all the more eagerly awaited.After the snarling opener “Bible Basher,” the throbbing “Forever Hate You” and “Standing In The Flames” sport Morbid Angel-ic guitar whines, bridges, and stellar solos. “Remnant Of A Hopeless Path” has a mid-paced double kickdrum beat, while the doomier “The Gift That Keeps On Giving” shows frontman Glen Benton’s cleaner, more intelligible vocals and Slayer-esque riffing. The Hoffman brothers’ soloing in “Suffer Again” will prick up the ears of Monstrosity fans. True to Deicide form, the whole record clocks in at just over 31 minutes — short, sweet, and to the point. The only drawback is the album’s outro after “Refusal Of Penance”: what’s supposed to be burning people comes off sounding like porcine squeals and potato-chip crunching. Musically, however, Deicide has finally reached their career apex, and as a famous metal critic once said, “Glen Benton wasn’t born with an inverted cross branded in his forehead” — he earned it.
Submitted by mike chinn on 8/3/00:
I was really looking forward to this album, but I didn't really know what to expect. It's been several years since they have released anything new, so I really had no idea what it was gonna sound like. Being a long time Deicide fan I expected more than what I got, but that's ok, cause it wasn't too far off from what I thought. It's definitely Deicide but with a lot more groove. Which isn't bad unless your favorite album is Legion. Then it might be a little disappointing. But it's still the usual Deicide, satanic lyrics, good melodic solos, some kick asshole riffs and Benton's vokills. So yet again they don't disappoint, which is good. Yet I would like them to get a little more technical.
Submitted by Hank Petersen on 6/30/00:
NOT ENOUGH!Glen and his fellows are makin it way too easy for themselves. There's so much asskicking stuff out there today that even not Deicide can live on their reputation forever.
The record isn't bad but I was expecting more. The awesome lyrics from Serpent has turned into Nevermind words with this record. Even though the massive production and so on, this might be the beginning of the end for the mighty Deicide. I hope they will prove me wrong.
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