“The Pentecostal” isn’t just another blasphemous tantrum — it’s a rare moment of clarity where Deicide turns its fury toward something concrete: Pentecostal mind control, spectacle worship, and the slow zombification of American faith.
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Blasphemy with Coordinates: On the Strange Clarity of Deicide’s ‘The Pentecostal’

“The Pentecostal” (2004) might be the Deicide song I’ve been waiting to hear since I first clocked Glen Benton’s act as occasionally more than just a Satanic shock-jock routine. While I can’t…

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