Deicide is the eponymous debut album by American death metal band Deicide. The album contains all of their demo tracks plus the two songs Deicide and Mephistopheles. While containing mostly Satanic or blasphemous lyrical themes, Lunatic of God's Creation and Carnage in the Temple of the Damned concern Charles Manson and Jim Jones respectively, and Dead by Dawn deals with the plot of the film, The Evil Dead. It is considered to be the bestselling death metal album of all time. Nielsen Soundscan lists it second after Morbid Angel's Covenant, however Deicide was released before SoundScan went into effect so Read more on Last.fm.
