new Deicide album

So, I just bought this album and it is instantly the stupidest record I've ever heard.

First of all, this is the cover art:


YEAH.

So, with a title like "Stench of Redemption" and songs like "Death to Jesus," you know you are in for an IQ-raising experience. Actually, ok, typing this in my room, and having listened to death metal for the last five years, I started laughing out loud at "Death to Jesus." It's maybe the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

On the other hand, I do not have an ironic relationship to this album.

Although Deicide have been a running joke for the past ten years, since every album they put out seemed to be worse than the next (although mercifully, their previous records are ALL under 35 minutes long). Not to mention, that Glenn Benton publicly announced that he was going to kill himself and then DIDN'T (wuss). But after hearing the last Vital Remains record ("Dechristianize"), with Glenn Benton (from Deicide) on vocals, everyone in the "metal community" suddenly had to wonder, could the new Deicide album be good?!

Well...I mean...it's a Deicide album, so when you say it's "good," you have to take into account what that means. The guitarists in the band quit (they were brothers), and so Benton has drafted INCREDIBLE talent in the form of a dude from Cannibal Corpse and a dude from Iced Earth (yes, the band which wrote a concept "suite" about the battle of Gettysburg and features former Judas Priest vocalist "Ripper" Owens, the person portrayed by Marky Mark in the film "Rock Star"). So, while the music is still mostly the same weirdly slow and redundant Deicide riffs, on *top of* the normal material is extremely fluid and beautiful guitar melodies and leads. It doesn't exactly "fit" because the duhn-duhn-duhn-duh-duh-duh double-bass plod is so very unmelodic, that every time these sweeping solos come on, you have to switch into a totally different mode of listening.

In conclusion, the new Deicide album:
-is retarded.
-has the coolest guitar playing on a death metal record maybe EVER. (obvious exceptions for Death and Morbid Angel)
-has a bonus Deep Purple cover if you buy the vinyl.
-makes me want to buy a pair of white hi-tops.
-is not parent-friendly.
-is still not as good as the Vital Remains 2xLP...