Glen Benton is the face of Satanic death metal. Literally… having branded an inverted cross on his forehead in his early days of fronting Tampa’s Deicide. Across his 35-year crusade, Glen has riled up countless Christians, but also animal rights activists – after he shot a squirrel during an interview with the NME in 1992, he received death threats, and a show in Stockholm was bombed.
A few years later, Republican senator Bob Dole condemned the Florida death metal scene for threatening to “undermine our character as a nation”. Glen’s also a 56-year-old father of two, and speaks of the myriad scrapes he’s ended up in with the flippancy of a man who has learned not to take things too seriously.
