Deicide – Once Upon The Cross (1995)

December 31, 2022

As much as I love Legion I find the production so dense and impenetrable I can’t help but prefer both the self-titled and Once Upon The Cross to it. Legion is arguably more brutal, but there is more nuance here, and I think the record works better for it. The band are firing on all cylinders here.

Thick and chunky with a dry, unforgiving production. Not as viscerally decimating as Legion, but still an infinitely brutal attack of the senses. Absolutely classic death metal in every sense of the term. I would be wasting words by pontificating further. As with most early Deicide, this is essential.