Legion

Description

If Deicide’s first album defined death metal, their second album supercharged it. Incredibly fast tempos, dizzying arrangements, guitar sounds that are simply diabolical... when someone like bassist and vocalist Glen Benton labels the album “***kin' over the top,” you know where you’re going (if you said hell, you’re getting warmer) when you drop the needle into the vinyl vein of this Legion. As always with this band, drummer Steve Asheim, whose double-kick BPM approaches four digits amid the Hoffman brothers’ guitar blasts. The material on Legion has also stood the test of time, with “Trifixion” and “Dead but Dreaming” remaining fan favorites. Indeed, Legion (which, along with their self-titled debut, is one of the best-selling death metal records of all time) is considered by many to be Deicide’s best album; it is certainly their most brutal.