Deicide's Glen Benton puts on poor show in Denmark

On Friday, November 4 DEICIDE frontman Glen Benton put on an embarrassing peformance during the first night of the Aalborg Metal Festival in Aalborg, Denmark. This fiasco took place during the band's headlining performance. Deicide were one of the many feature performers including THE HAUNTED, HYPOCRISY, SIX FEET UNDER, HATESPHERE, CALLENISH CIRCLE, and others.

PowerMetal.dk observed Benton's distasteful act:
"Next up is this evening's headliner, DEICIDE. As I write these lines, I'm still shocked by the embarrassing performance of Glen Benton.

"Benton not only decides to begin the gig before scheduled, he is also obviously hammered and/or stoned out of his mind. This turns out to be if not the, then one of the most embarrassing performances I've been witness to, as Benton babbles about him getting rid of the two Nazis, the Hoffman brothers, about the pain he went through, and in between these rants, he does his best to insult the crowd. He also manages on two occasions to forget that he had already played songs.

"You can only feel sorry for a talented person who has fallen so deep. Here and there you can hear what made DEICIDE great, but on this evening we hear too little DEICIDE music and too much self indulging crap from Mr. Benton.

"DEICIDE only needs one more replacement before being able to move on and create some of the music that helped shaping death metal: get rid of Glen Benton, for fuck's fuck - he just wasted one hour of the life of 400 individuals in Aalborg, and it's probably not going to be the last."

Glen Benton has caught the media's attention before with such antics as proclaiming he would kill his self on his 33rd birthday (obviously this never happened), and branding an inverted cross into his forehead.



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Darren Cowan    November 09, 2005