Deicide – Serpents Of The Light (1997)

February 16, 2024

Serpents Of The Light is where Deicide starts to lose me. To be fair, the first three albums are ranked incredibly high for me; their unique (for the time) brand of serrriously evil death metal was second to none, especially on the self-titled and Legion. Serpents Of The Light is far, far from being a bad record, it is just some of the genuinely scary energy and atmosphere of those earlier incantations has started to dissipate, leaving… well, a really good death metal record, I can’t argue that. But, it is one that fails to ignite the same kind of terrifying spark as the earlier efforts.