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Review: Deicide - Banished by Sin
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Banished by Sin

Label: Reigning Phoenix Music
Year released: 2024
Duration: 38:59
Tracks: 12
Genre: Death Metal

Rating:
2.5/5


Review online: May 9, 2024
Reviewed by: Sargon the Terrible
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Back in the day, this band's evil debut was cemented in my tape player, and while the stuff that came after was not any good, in 2006 the band came back with The Stench of Redemption and really kicked my ass. I hoped it signaled a renaissance for this band, but it was only a moment before the inevitable slide. Now after years of foisting crap on us like To Hell with God, Deicide have washed up on the shores of minor-league labels with their eleventh full-length.

This is just so bland. The guitar sound is round, soft, and friendly. The riffs are clean and predictable, without any real heaviness or catchiness. Glen at least doubles up his vocals with the screeches like he used to, and that makes this sound superficially like a Deicide album, but the songs just don't have anything interesting going on. The songwriting is by the numbers, and the production is nowhere near good enough to overcome that. This pretty much sounds like you fed all the late-period Deicide albums into an AI program and had it spit out a ground-up paste of tired ideas and rehashed riffs. Skip it.

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