A punishing American death metal group with a penchant for pairing uncompromising decibels with controversy, Florida's Deicide employ a lethal mix of sonic heft and Satanism. The band's championing of animal sacrifices and anti-Christianity rhetoric has yielded attacks from religious organizations and animal rights groups. The group has continued to mine the depths of depravity and despair into the 2010s and beyond, occasionally tempering their death metal assault with forays into more melodic forms of extreme metal, which they did in the late 2000s. However, 2013's In the Minds of Evil, 2018's Overtures of Blasphemy, and 2024's Banished by Sin marked a return to the brutality of their early days.