OC Weekly recently caught up with Deicide frontman Glen Benton while the band was on their North American tour for In The Minds Of Evil. An excerpt is available below:

Q: Do you still have people boycotting your shows or music because of religious reasons?

Benton: "We used to have a lot of that, years ago, but lately it seems like we've moved out of the stone age with those people. See what people don't get is that as a band, we and many others were scapegoated, and got the tail end of whole 1950s hating of rock and roll music, they called Elvis satanic. It's like the War on Drugs, to the establishment, you guys lost that war and you're losing this war against rock music, Fuck off!"

Q: Deicide shows have been known to have crazy fans, and even crazier mosh pits, that can get violent. Have you ever seen violence at a show, you were worried about?

Benton: "Well we've seen some crazy shit over the years; death metal pits can get crazy. We've seen fights and people over doing with aggression and we've had to barricade in dressing rooms to wait till things mellowed out, years ago. I don't know, I've never felt scared, but I did feel a bit disappointed a few times, it is about fun not violence on that level. We just saw a kid recently split his head open after getting knocked out and we don't like it anytime anyone gets hurt at the shows, it's not a good thing. At the end of the day I'd rather see a kid go home smiling about the show rather than with stitches."

Go to this location for the complete interview.