Yet almost the entire album couldn't beat the title track in sounding original or better. The album strongly consists blast beats and shredded guitar solos. The vocals in some bits aren't bad, but the quality of the songs are drastic.
Best tracks are the title track and The Pentecostal. The beginning song to this album was a classic title-track, but the album as a whole is filled with putrid vocals and mediocre guitar riffs even with the Hoffman brothers in the band. I just thought that the backup screams drowned out the riffs so it was hard to hear the guitar fully.
That's my major beef with the album. Otherwise, the riffs that could be hear were classic Deicide. The leads too were quite awesome especially since Eric Hoffman was coached by Ralph Santolla.
I think that this album is quality death metal, just nothing that fantastic. The riffs follow the vocals, but they don't really stick in your mind. Fast tempo guitar a lot of the time which was classic during the Hoffman brother's era. However, not enough good riffs to make the album that noteworthy. Just the title-track really sticks to me and it's a song that cannot be outplayed. The riffs were simply awesome and the vocals weren't really annoying. Of course the lyrical topics are the same as expected.
But you couldn't really make out what Glen was saying only if you look at the insert it gives the lyrics to all of the songs. Mindless writings that are wholly worthless and the Satanic stuff just gets old after a while.
It doesn't take much thought to put in anti-Christianity lyrics to an album. Without the Hoffman brothers, Deicide just isn't the same. They made Deicide awesome, Glen sure didn't. His vocal outputs here show no talent whatsoever.
The lead guitars on the album were really well put out. Arpeggios, sweep picking, high quality tremolo picked scales to the core. The rhythms just needed improvement. There wasn't anything that really stuck out to me except like I said the title track. It's the only song that really deserves praise on here. I don't know why they put together putrid music after the first song.
There should've been more thought put into the rest of the album. Production wise everything was well mixed, but the vocals high pitched screams drowned out the guitar as I mentioned. That really dampened everything. It took away what the album could've been seriously. If there wasn't backup screams that went along with the low end bellowing then I would give this release a better rating. Some people like this album and I do too, but the vocals just get annoying after a while.
Too much screaming and not enough guitar sound to go along with it. I'd say that this is the last mediocre release by Deicide. They should've just called it quits after this one. What they play now is just pure poor death metal. Scars of the Crucifix would've made it better if Glen would've taken the time to construct his vocals so that the music could go well along with it. But he didn't, so this album failed.
His comment on an interview he said that he hates the Hoffman brothers more than anything in this world. They made Deicide great, he's an idiot. Right from the opening credits, Deicide's 7th album already seems like a jilted bore. Of course, I'm talking about the rather bland cover image, an area which has never been the band's forte but at least the first two albums had cool symbols present.
Unfortunately, the growing pains here run far deeper than just the bland image of Jesus above which an empty logo and title are imposed. You see, Scars of the Crucifix suffers from the same fate as its predecessor, the oft maligned In Torment In Hell: the songwriting sucks. Granted, this was a period of turmoil for the band. In fact, this is the final album to involve the Hoffman brothers, but from the sound of things I have to suspect that there was some unrest somewhere which turned into the acceptance of sub-par material being ushered forth.
The production is perhaps a notch up from In Torment in Hell, but this is yet another empty canteen of blasphemous sustenance in a desert of dried ideas. Deicide had in effect become a paragon of the very generic, faceless death metal they helped influence across a thousand other, aspiring bands. Pedestrian chugging rhythms intertwined with streams of half baked streams of blasting mutes that fail to generate even a handful of fingers worth of quality riffs.
Deicide had never exactly scrawled out malevolent notation worthy of the standard of shock and brutality beneath which they marched, but these songs don't even feel remotely aggressive and muscular, traits that made Legion such a success. Even the titles continued to feel lazy. Scars of the Crucifix maintained the same slicing leads as the albums prior to it, but they also seemed indifferent and dialed in at the last moment, with zero appeal beyond their own writhing, sporadic and sudden existence.
It was honestly no surprise when Benton announced that the Hoffman brothers were out of the band. Whatever personal issues existed, whoever was in the right or wrong, this lot were simply not making any music of note together, and had not been for years. Fresh blood was necessary, and fresh blood would Glen Benton find in some worthy scene veterans who were kicking about loosely. Scars of the Crucifix is another of the cult heroes' darkest hours.
It persists as an example of why one should break the bread before letting it grow stale. I know I'm not in the majority with this, but I consider this album catchy as hell no pun intended.
As opposed to the Pandora version of the same thing where they play the band and other similar artists. So I have every release from Deicide and have the mix put on random and turns out I actually find myself liking the songs from 'Scars Of The Crucifix' quite a lot. I understand that the song titles seem "childish" in it's redudndancy, and the music is somewhat slower than the first 2 albums. But fuck me if the music here ain't brutal.
In the end, that's what I want. After two disappointing albums in 'In Torment In Hell' and 'Insineratehymn' they had to up the ante, especially since it's their first album for Earache Records. The title track is one of the best Deicide songs ever, no denying that.
But the two tracks that standout for me outside of the title track are 'Enchanted Nightmare' with the machine gun like drums of Steve Asheim and 'When Heaven Burns'. I understand when a band doesn't sound the same as the "peak" days, but I still enjoy this release.
A recurring theme throughout the album is Eric Hoffmann's use of the finger tapping on almost every song. It worked to perfection on the solo at the end of 'Scars Of The Crucifix' and I don't mind the use of it on other tracks but I feel that he got "tap happy". I know he used this technique as well on 'Serpents Of The Light' so this isn't a new thing from him.
Overall, this album is enjoyable for a Deicide fan like myself, and no, I don't enjoy everything from them. But as you know in reviews, it's all subjective. I like death metal. I love Dismember and older Entombed but Deicide never got my attention. For Scars of the Crucifix, we have one of the most boring 29 minutes of my life. This 29 minutes drag out and feels at lease twice as long.
Lyrics are some of the most pathetic lyrics I have ever read. Glen should have taken some creative writing classes in school. Vocals on the album are layered in high pitched screams and low grunted growls. When separated they sound pretty cool but most of the time they are mixed in together. If you watch the DVD that comes with this album you will see that Glen recorded one vocal line at a time to get better effect. But listening to it, it just sounds like a 40 year old man making a bunch of random sounds into a microphone.
Production itself is meaty with lots of bass. This is one of the only highlights of the album. Yet with the bass and guitars mostly doing a chugga chugga riffing, the meaty production actually buries everything into a pool of mud. It seems like American bands are afraid of showing melody in their music.
Look at Dismember and Entombed…. Or even look at Dissection, Jon was a real Satanist and Dissection had some of the most melodic tunes in the extreme metal subgenera.
Drumming is okay, nothing that makes me want to take up drumming. The production helps Steve out quite nicely. The DVD is what made me officially hate this band. Can you say rednecks? We have Glen the redneck biker who rather spend his day ripping off the tails of lizards rather than write a good album.
Steve just flat out scares me with his collection of guns. The band seems to be so serious when recording SotC but when you hear the final result there is nothing that says…. Alright, for the record, I did enjoy this album when I first bought it. But that was only because I listened to a couple of songs, and then put it away for awhile. The next time I'd lsten to a couple of different songs, then put it away.
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The track Scars of the Crucifix spawned their first ever music video, filmed in Nottingham. This was also the last album to feature the Hoffman brothers on guitar, after their year tenure with the group.
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Over the years, their lyrics have resulted in bans, lawsuits and criticism from religious groups and the public. The band was originally called Amon, and recorded two demos under this name, which were later released on CD as "Amon: Feasting The Beast".
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