REVOLVER Dying Fetus have covered Napalm Death and Integrity in the past, but you haven’t done that many covers lately. Why did you decide to do a covers EP?
JOHN GALLAGHER Well we don’t want to build a career on doing covers because I think too many covers can start being cheesy. With History Repeats… the band and I wanted to give our fans something special to hold them over to our next full length due to come out in April 2012 And it’s always good to remain active and record as much as possible because each time we record and visit the studio we learn more about refining our sound.

How did you pick the bands and songs that you covered?
We wanted to do some songs that we have listened to and enjoyed over the years. I have always been a fan of Broken Hope so I wanted to do one of their songs and also to commemorate the passing of Joe Placek

Did any songs “almost make the cut?”
I wanted to do some more hardcore covers from Blood for Blood, Madball, No Innocent Victim, and 25 ta Life, but we didn’t get a large enough recording budget from Relapse to do them all. So I thought it would be best to just go with some good solid death-metal songs. In the future I might approach a hardcore label to do a hardcore tribute album but it’s just a thought at the moment.

What’s your favorite cover another band has done of a Dying Fetus song?
That’s a good question, I’ve heard some good covers of “Kill Your Mother, Rape Your Dog” and “Grotesque Impalement” but I can’t remember the name of the bands who did them. Just kinda ran into them on YouTube and whatnot. It would be cool to see a glam band do a cover of our joke song “North Forest Trolls of Satan” I bet Steel Panther could do a good job with that.

Sleepers in the Rift was recorded between November 15-19, 2010 and produced by the band with Swedish death metal icon Nicke Andersson (Entombed, Hellacopters, Death Breath, Imperial State Electric) co-producing and engineering.

Track listing:

1. Through the Gaping Gate / Coughing in a Coffin
2. Creepy Creeping Creep
3. Hymns to a Stiff
4. Red Hook Horror
5. The Hallucinating Dead
6. Ways of Torture
7. Dead Body Pile Necrophile
8. Lidless Coffin
9. Deformation of the Dark Matter

Long-running Italian death-thrash band Necrodeath have announced their definitive retrospective CD, The Age of Fear, which is due out in North America on June 14 via Scarlet Records. The 15-track anthology features tracks spanning every album in the band’s discography, starting with 1987′s debut album, Into The Macabre, through their latest release, Old Skull.

In addition, a previously unreleased “onyric” version of the song “Queen Of Desire,” which features guest appearances by Giorgia Gueglio (Mastercastle) on vocals and Botys Beezard (Godyva) on piano, a cover version of Slayer’s classic “Black Magic” and a live version of “The Theory” will also be included in The Age of Fear.

The Age of Fear track listing:

1. Mater Tenebrarum (from the album Old Skull, 2010)
2. Awakening Of Dawn (from the album Phylogenesis, 2009)
3. I.N.R.I. (from the album Phylogenesis, 2009)
4. Smell Of Blood (from the album ‘Draculea’, 2007)
5. Master Of Morphine (from the album 100% Hell, 2006)
6. Forever Slaves (from the album 100% Hell, 2006)
7. Queen Of Desire (from the album Ton(e)s Of Hate, 2003)
8. Burn And Deny (from the album Black As Pitch, 2001)
9. Hate And Scorn (from the album Mater Of All Evil, 1999)
10. Flame Of Malignance (from the album Mater Of All Evil, 1999)
11. Eucharistical Sacrifice (from the album Fragments Of Insanity, 1989)
12. At The Mountains Of Madness (from the album Into The Macabre, 1987)
13. The Theory (live, 2010)
14. Queen Of Desire (onyric version, 2011)
15. Black Magic (Slayer cover, from the album Old Skull, 2010)

The label released the following statement: “We are extremely proud to release the new album of this amazing American band that has been inexplicably overseen until now. Expect one of the best Blasphemous Darkened Death Metal albums that you’ve heard in the past decade, blowing away with ease all their past efforts and the greatest majority of today’s generic and over-hyped Death Metal bands. Prepare to be initiated to Drawn And Quartered’s suffocating darkness!

“As a teaser to the album, we will release a 7-inch EP that will feature two new songs taken from the upcoming album plus two new songs exclusive to the EP.”

Drawn and Quartered’s latest album, Merciless Hammer of Lucifer, was released in 2007 via Moribund Cult.

Today, we conclude Revolver’s interview with Nergal. To review, early last August, Adam “Nergal” Darski—the frontman of the Polish extreme-metal group Behemoth—announced he had been diagnosed with leukemia, putting a stop to his band’s tour for 2009′s Evangelion album. Since then, fans of his band have followed his obstacles and progress. He desperately needed a bone marrow transplant by late August. His then-fiancée, Polish pop singer Doda, offered hers but wasn’t a match. Fans began organizing bone-marrow drives to raise leukemia awareness over the next couple of months. Nergal got a bone-marrow match by early November, and he underwent a transplant the next month. Nergal left the hospital in January, only to return the next month for a short time, and has been on the road to recovery ever since.

The timing couldn’t be better. This year marks the 20th anniversary of Behemoth, and the band plans to play its first concerts this October, as well as to release an authorized biography. Behemoth are also planning on touring the U.S. next spring. Nergal spoke with Revolver on Wednesday about everything he had gone through—from the initial stages of his illness to the first time he picked up a guitar again. Here, he talks about the recovery process.

REVOLVER How did your bandmates support you through this?
NERGAL We were on the phone every two or three days. We were putting together this DVD project when I was in the hospital, so I was talking to Orion every day about details. When I was in the hospital, I kept my band alive as much as I could. I was talking to managers, talking to labelmates and bandmates. Every time I was feeling OK, they’d come over to the hospital and visit me. I had great support from pretty much everyone out there involved in the band somehow. They were just ready to bring in help to me.

My bandmates, Inferno and Orion, would appear on national TV several times asking people to give blood and do tests for bone marrow. And it was good. It was really good to see that everyone was so much focused on that, and they really did care about me. That was really helpful and cool.

Also, the whole extreme metal scene, the whole community was out there standing behind my back. I was getting fucking thousands of emails. And I know there’s a lot of shows they organized just to raise the consciousness of what leukemia is all about. I’m really happy. I wouldn’t really expect that from these kind of people. I know they respect what we do as musicians, but at the end of the day I was happy to see these people do care about human beings. Not just their favorite artists or a guy in a band. They were like, OK, this guy is in need. He needs us to help him about. We don’t want to lose another musician that we respect and that we like. You can guess that I don’t really value human race that much. But I can tell you that this whole case brought back a lot of, how do you say, faith in human beings. It’s positive in the end of the day.

That’s great. Did your then-fiancée, pop-singer Doda, with whom you recently broke up, help you through all of this, too?
She was there for me. This whole DKMS organization—the biggest organization that collects bone marrow, in Poland—they had 50,000 donors before I went to the hospital. And they collected them within a few years period. When I went to the hospital, and we started the whole campaign in the media and everywhere, she was the one asking everyone to go for it. Within a few months we did even more than they did within years. It was a great success. It’s cool to see that my tragedy had an awesome effect, you know? It’s killer. I’m happy to help out other people, too. I know that my case helped out other people. It’s cool, it’s positive.

Yes, it is. How did going through all of this affect your relationship?
It was tough. It was really tough. We were apart from each other most of this time. There was no time for…you know, there was no sex. You’re not really close with this person physically, and you need that—and she needs that. We were apart for most of this time, and you change your shapes, and you look really ugly, and you’re not the same, and you have no hair. Both men and women, their ego is so much disturbed in these situations. I can tell you I didn’t really treat myself as a proper man. I lost a lot of it. But I know it’s just temporary, but it affects your relationship for sure. It’s not the same again. Yeah, so…

Are things better now?
Well, it’s picked up lately. I don’t really analyze it. Shit. I don’t know man, I really need some time to think it over and to treat it with distance. It’s a very fresh thing. But definitely this whole case complicates and affects our relationship in some way. It could have strengthened it, but there are some other things that happened aside from it. Then again, I don’t really…it’s a personal thing. I’m not really in the mood to talk about it.

I understand. Changing subjects, what music inspired you through that time?
There were times I’d be listening to no music. It depended on the mood. Sometimes I was in no mood for anything—to talk to people, to see people, to listen to music, to watch TV, anything. And then next week I’d be all over some band.

I remember when I went through the radiotherapy, I’d be listening to Filosofem by Burzum pretty much every single day. It was snowing outside, it was fucking freezing, and this music would be fitting this fucking whole circumstances perfectly. And I was so much into it. And I was listening to Belus, the last Burzum album, too. But that was just maybe two weeks, and I was just picking out different albums, different bands. I try to keep it varied.

Have you been able to play much music?
No, I didn’t even touch my guitar in that time. I actually started playing guitar two months ago. I just didn’t feel like it, man. When I grabbed my guitar for the first time, I was terrified. I thought guitar playing was like bike riding? Once you do it, you never forget it. I was surprised seeing it was exactly the opposite. The more time you spend without an instrument, the more you lose. So I had to start over again and stretch my fingers, learn certain sections and parts and leads. You have to start over again basically. It’s going to take me two or three months to get back into the same shape, but the point is to be a better musician in the end of the day. I really hope that for the first shows we have planned in October in Poland for later this year, I really hope I’ll be at least as good as I was before I got sick.

That’s great. You recently made an appearance at the Musicollective music school. How was that?
No, that was tabloid bullshit, man. Don’t take it seriously. They just picked it up and blew it up. I was with a friend of mine just jamming; we just played different stuff. No metal stuff. I just treated it as an exercise. And we just took some pictures, and he put it on the school’s Facebook. And then, the next day, the Polish tabloids were all over it, and they picked up the pictures, and I had these big tabloid magazines calling me up trying to buy these pictures. Obviously, I tell all of them to fuck off. I won’t be fucking flirting with this kind of media.

That’s terrible. How does it feel to be the subject of this kind of weird tabloid culture?
It’s not my life. It’s not me. It’s mostly lies and rumors and gossip. It’s kind of upsetting in a way. I was more into it when I was fully healthy. Like now, when I left hospital and I’m like, Eh, I don’t have the same energy yet. And I’m like weak and stuff. My level of tolerance is much lower to this bullshit.

It’s terrible how they do that. Have you been able to write any music lately?
Not really, I did some riffs. I’m thinking maybe something cool will come out of it. Maybe not. We’ll see. I wrote a lot of stuff—not musically, but lyrics. I got a lot of ideas for lyrics, a lot of verses here and there. Some of them are really, really cool. I can’t wait to put them into the riffs. It was not like I was inactive artistically; I was. I just wasn’t playing the guitar. I was coming up with different ideas. Honestly, now, I was seeing my graphic designer two days ago, and we were talking about the cover for the next record. I know it’s two years until we fucking unleash it, but I always start working in the very early stages. And I just throw ideas at the table and just wait for them to grow. I want to make sure every idea is awesome and it’s very mature I want to make sure that the whole album, every aspect—music, graphics, lyrics—they’re going to pass the test of time. And it’s going to be timeless at the end of the time, and 10 years down the road people are going to be thinking, Fuck, this awesome record, it’s still fresh and it has a value to people.

Speaking of that, this is Behemoth’s 20th anniversary, and I just wanted to know how that makes you feel.
Yes, we’re talking to Metal Blade, and Metal Blade’s probably going to be releasing an official biography in English worldwide. It’s going to be a book, with lots of pictures, 300 or 400 pictures. It should be finished in May, so we really hope that we’re going to meet the deadlines because October is exactly when the 20^th anniversary is happening. What’s a better way to celebrate the anniversary than to release a biography? I don’t see any. Some bands would do new versions of their old songs, and stuff that was pretty much every fucking band does it. We’re going to do some shows here in Poland, but I’m most excited about the book. It’s super exciting and I can’t fucking wait to read it. I hope metalheads will want to read it—I know they’re all about listening to the music, but it would be cool to have something like this. It’s going to be authorized by the band, and it’s a lot of cool stuff that you’ve never read in the interviews. A lot of pictures, a lot of rare pictures. So just wait and
see. It’s going to be awesome.

What do you have planned for your concerts in October?
Yeah, we just decided to play some so-called comeback shows in Poland just to warm up and see how we feel, just to be onstage again together. And I really hope that it’s going to turn out great and that it’s going to cause other tours and stuff. We have plans until the summer of next year. We already have some cool offers. We’re talking to our agents. There’s some really, really cool ideas. I don’t want to reveal anything yet, but once we’re done with October shows, and we feel good about it, and there’s chemistry onstage, we definitely want to continue the Evangelion touring cycle. There’s still some markets we didn’t even touch. We’ve done over 100 shows so far to Evangelion. We’re going to do another 100 at least, and then we can focus on the next record.

To be honest, we can’t wait to hit the stage again. I’m so fucking anxious. I’m so excited, so psyched about it. I have dreams about coming back onstage. I dream about Behemoth shows. It’s insane, I know, but I can’t tell you how much it’s a relief to the band and how much it means to us.

Absolutely, that’s awesome. Obviously all the fans want it, too.
Fuck yeah, man. I can’t wait to meet these people out there. I’ll be out there talking to everyone. And I’m happy that I’ll have a chance to shake their hands and say thank you for your support. And thank you for waiting for us.

I’m sure everyone will be happy to hear you’re doing better.
Yeah man, it’s cool to hear things like that. It keeps us motivated. It gives us a certain drive. We feel like the band is really needed and there is a demand for Behemoth, and without this we probably wouldn’t be here.

Read part one here.

Photo by Maciej Boryna

Early last August, Adam “Nergal” Darski—the frontman of the Polish extreme-metal group Behemoth—announced he had been diagnosed with leukemia. His band was still touring for their Evangelion album, released a year earlier, and this put a stop to Behemoth’s tour. Since then, fans of his band have followed his obstacles and progress. He desperately needed a bone marrow transplant by late August. His then-fiancée, Polish pop singer Doda, offered hers but wasn’t a match. Fans began organizing bone-marrow drives to raise leukemia awareness over the next couple of months. Nergal got a bone-marrow match by early November, and he underwent a transplant the next month. Nergal left the hospital in January, only to return the next month for a short time, and has been on the road to recovery ever since.

The timing couldn’t be better. This year marks the 20th anniversary of Behemoth, and the band plans to play its first concerts this October, as well as to release an authorized biography. Behemoth are also planning on touring the U.S. next spring. Yesterday, Nergal spoke with Revolver while he was in southern Poland, visiting friends, about everything he had gone through—from the initial stages of his illness to the first time he picked up a guitar again—and we are posting his interview in two parts. Click here for the rest of our interview.

REVOLVER How are you feeling today?
NERGAL I’m very good. The weather is just getting nicer and nicer here. It’s just getting beautiful, and I’m just enjoying it. I’m enjoying my time off before the whole crazy cycle starts over again.

What’s you current health status?
It’s been over a hundred days after the bone-marrow transplant. You have to be very careful and very sensitive about everything during that time. You must not mix with big crowds, because of infections and bacteria in the air and shit like that. You have to be very careful about your diet. There are very few things you can eat, basically. And of course, no alcohol and no raw meat. Now that that period is over, I’m basically enjoying myself. After this interview, I’m going to join my friends and have a beer, maybe have some French fries. I wasn’t allowed to eat junk food, so I’m actually really hungry for that kind of stuff. Anything that was restricted is just so tasty to me nowadays.

Basically, I’m discovering all these over again. Enjoying it. I have to take these drugs that basically lower my immune system, so that the bone marrow can adapt in my body. After this period, it’s going to be another chapter of recovery. Basically with time, when all my blood tests are OK and stuff, and my bone-marrow tests are OK, it’s just going to develop in a better way.

How do I feel? I feel pretty fucking awesome. There are some little things that are kind of frustrating. Basically, stomach problems and stuff like that. Other than that, I’m pretty strong. Every week I feel stronger and better and stuff. All good, all good.

It sounds like you’re in good spirits.
Yeah, totally. Basically everything is going according to the plans. There were no delays with the chemo, and radio therapy, and the transplant. The way it was planned in August or September, everything happened according to the plan set by my doctors. I know that I’m pretty lucky, but on the other hand, I know that my attitude towards the sickness also determined the result. You have to keep the spirits high, and even though it can be challenging and painful, you have to keep yourself motivated and not believe in success at the end of the road but basically be 100-percent sure that everything will be fine as it was before.

When did you know you had a health problem?
I believe it was in June. It was right before we left on a European tour with Decapitated. I just started having goosebumps all over my head, and I didn’t know the origin of it. I thought it was some kind of skin disease. I was thinking maybe I brought it from some exotic country. I was in Japan before, and I was in Australia a few months earlier. But I was fine, I just had these bumps on my head and diarrhea. All the time it was diarrhea, and it was kind of suspicious. But I just took it easy and was kind of like, OK, maybe this is going to go away. Maybe it’s the shitty food on tour.

I came back to Poland after the tour, and then I left for Greece for vacation two days later. It was really hot there, but I was having fevers every day. Every time I’d wake up every morning, my whole bed would be covered in water. It was sweat all over, and I was just getting weaker and weaker every day. I was like, Shit, this is something serious. I need to take care of it ASAP. When I was still in Greece, I started calling doctors and surgeons. They said, “Without blood tests, we can’t tell you anything.” So after I came back from Greece I felt kind of shitty, and I had breathing problems. And I decided, I have to go to the hospital immediately. So I went to the hospital as soon as I performed at two concerts. I did one with Behemoth and one as a guest vocal with some band. They hardly happened because I was in such bad shape. But somehow I did it. I faked a lot. I couldn’t fucking sing, but I faked it. After that, I just traveled across the country and just went to the hospital. After three or four days in the hospital, they moved me to another hospital where they diagnosed me with leukemia.

Did you ever find out the cause of the leukemia?
There was no cause. No one in my family has had cancer. If it’s not in your genes, it’s not really possible to guess the cause. It could be anything. It could be nerves, it could be a stressful life. You know Chernobyl ? We had the same stuff back in the ’80s in Poland, and there was a radioactive cloud that went over Poland. This radioactive cloud came through Poland, and some doctors say that might be the cause of it, too. But no one can tell you 100 percent what was the cause.

You were in the hospital for a long time waiting for a marrow donor. How were you feeling while you were waiting?
Basically, I didn’t feel that bad. I had some OK periods, and I had some shitty periods. It depends. When I was on steroids, it was OK. It was bearable. The only problem was I made a lot of energy because of the steroids that I took, so I had to eat a lot and I was growing fat. My face changed and everything. I was just so full of water. It was scary to look in the mirror in the morning. But other than that, I was doing OK.

When they gave me chemo, I took it pretty well. There was no side effects. Some of the chemo caused some shitty days. I could hardly walk, but it could have been much worse. Seeing other patients and people dying and stuff, man, I was really lucky. My sickness was an aggressive form—it was very fast, it was invading my body rapidly. But at the same time, my body reacted really, really well to the chemo. So basically after the first dose, the cancer was 50-percent gone. My bone marrow was just a few percent of the cancerous cells that were left in the bone marrow. The doctors were very, very optimistic about the way it was developing and the way of the cure. And I was optimistic, too. It took me six months altogether, with the chemotherapy and the radiotherapy and the transplant to get healthy basically—to get new bone marrow and go back home and start recovery. It was really fast in compared to other patients and other cases. It was fast.

Read part two here.

Photo by Maciej Boryna

“To create this cover we worked from several references, ideas, elements, and I would say a ‘world’ of options and paths,” comments Sazes. “After a long brainstorming period and some ideas left behind, we came up with the concept of this organic surreal insane being; a fallen God or a weird mirror image of our own madness. It is a different Morbid Angel cover for sure, but I think that’s how Morbid Angel is: deviant and different on each new release. They never repeat themselves. They are always pushing the boundaries and setting new standards. I’m really proud of the final results and hope the fans appreciate my work, while listening to the new album!”

Prior to the release of the album, a single for the song “Nevermore” will be made available on May 16th as a digital download and seven-inch vinyl single. The B-side is an exclusive version of new song “Destructos Vs. The Earth,” remixed by Norwegian electronica group Combichrist.

“Of all the remixes I’ve been asked to do I never expected one of the world’s most notorious death metal bands to have an interest in hearing their music on the dance floor,” said Combichrist mainman Andy LaPlegua. “However, ‘Destructos’ is one of those tracks that are so versatile that it could have been recorded as a folk song and it would still sound amazing. I’m honored to be a part of this project and am excited to see how the Morbid Angel fans react to this unusual new direction.”

The cover art to the single (seen below) was designed by French artists Valnoir and Fursy Teyssier for Metastazis.

Autopsy drummer and vocalist, Chris Reifert, states, “We’ve brewed up the sickest and heaviest material that our rotten souls could possibly spew forth, and we are confident that it’s our best stuff yet. The EP was a taste of what’s to come, but now it’s time for the full assault from beyond the grave.

“The album will contain no repeated EP tracks, no re-recorded old songs, no triggered trickery and nothing less than the pure death metal brutality that Autopsy has always delivered.”

Chris “Shinsplints” Krovatin is the author of two young adult novels,

On February 21, I saw Deicide with Blackgaurd, Neuraxis, Pathology, and Carcinogen at Gramercy Theatre in NYC. Here’s what I saw.

First Deicide album this reporter owned: Serpents of the Light.
Number of times this reporter has seen Deicide live: Zero. This is a first for me.
Number of Deicide fans it takes to screw in a lightbulb: Go fuck yourself.
Old fuck moment: Man, we made fun of Deicide a lot back in the day for writing album after album about the same damn thing. Who knew they’d just get better?
Band playing upon arrival: Carcinogen from Long Island.
Sounds like: Pretty standard death metal.
How standard: At one point, the singer was just yelling, “YOU’LL BE…DEAD!” while swiping his hand across his throat. Like that.
Still: The lead singer’s wearing a Nile Black Seeds of Vengeance shirt. That’s cool.
Lame merch situation: Deicide appear to be mostly sold out of their only two good shirts. Lame.
What am I gonna do: Get the one with the gargoyle on it?
Deicide’s merch guy: Fattest biker you’ve ever seen.
Next we have: Pathology from San Diego.
Sounds like: Ultra-grunty gore metal with melodic interludes.
Strangest stage routine: Pathology singer Jonathan Huber stalking to one side of the stage and back with his hands down at his sides. Huh?
Hard balance to strike: When do gore metal vocals go beyond having lyrics? If this dude’s trying to actually say things, I can’t understand word one.
Counter-argument: Lots of people say that about metal, period.
Back patch of the night: The dude in the Anthrax Spreading the Disease vest. Old-school bastard.
Wait: Have I given that guy a shout-out before?
Rule of thumb for the night: Apparently the best way to worship Satan is to be an overweight scowler with a pinch-faced midget for a girlfriend.
Hey: I’m down.
Ballsiest shirt choice of the night: The guy in the Stryper shirt.
Favorite old-school Glen Benton story: Apparently, Benton sat down for a short conversation with Euronymous back before the Mayhem guitarist was murdered. The conversation was mostly Euronymous declaring metal “true” or “false” and Benton responding, “…okay.”
Favorite photo of Glen Benton: The one where he’s tripping mushrooms waving around a tricycle.
Now we have: Neuraxis from Montreal.
Sounds like: Imagine a jet engine made with rusty razor blades being fed the writhing insane.
Tech-death stage move: Three sets of hair windmilling at once, in the same direction. Amazingly choreographed.
Realization: Neuraxis frontman Alex LeBlanc seems like a really good dude. His stage banter is jolly as fuck.
Time spent setting up Blackguard’s drum kit: Fifteen, 20 minutes. Seems like forever.
Oh, fuck it: I’m sitting with the other old fucks. Oh man, that’s comfortable.
And honestly: Do I have to be standing for Blackguard?
On that note: Blackguard, also from Montreal.
Wait: Are we thinking of the same Blackguard? They’re on this tour?
Sounds like: Some pirates listened to some Soilwork? I guess. With more keyboards. So.
Bold move of the night: Blackguard vocalist Paul Zinay mouthing off at the crowd. “Dragonforce rule by the way…yeah, you and me, guy. After this.”
Come on, man: You’ve got a New York Deicide crowd trying to deal with pirate metal instead of Belphegor. Be cool.
Number of audience members witnessed wearing huge Satanic jewelry: At least ten.
Number of reporters in the photo pit for Carcinogen: Just me. It was vast.
Number of reporters in the photo pit for Deicide: No more than five. Still vast. Kind of awesome, kind of lame.
Percentage of audience ready to cut out their still-beating hearts in the name of Satan: 666%.
And now, ladies and gentlemen: Fucking Deicide from fucking Florida.
Why try? World dies! Christ hides: When Satan rules his world.
Sounds like: A massive behooved demon, mouth wide with fanged malevolence, punching through the Empire State Building and and lapping the mangled bodies and rubble off of his arm. Then he drops the grossest deuce imaginable onto St. Patrick’s Cathedral before having sex with Lady Liberty.
Number of times Glen Benton has branded an inverted cross into his forehead: Seven or eight, I think, at this point. Does it matter?
Favorite stage banter: “I’ve been told there’s a dude in a Stryper shirt wandering around the crowd…man…good luck getting home.”
Deicide is: A band’s vocalist warning an audience member that he might be murdered for liking Christian metal.
Classic of the night: “Dead By Dawn” off the self-titled debut.
New classic of the night: “Death To Jesus” off of The Stench of Redemption.
Holy shit: This is easily one of the best death metal sets I’ve ever seen.
Question of the night: Where is your God now?
First Deicide show ever: A smashing success.
To the guy in the Stryper shirt: Hope you made it out of there, dude.