Former Deicide guitarist Jack Owen has opened up about his strained relationship with frontman Glen Benton, providing candid perception into the persona conflict that in the end helped deliver his time within the band to an finish.
Talking on The Growl Podcast, Owen was requested what it was like sharing a band with Benton. His reply was blunt. “It was robust, fairly robust,” Owen mentioned. “‘Trigger he by no means cracked my bubble and I by no means needed to get into his bubble. We’re simply fully completely different folks, man.”
Owen described himself as a deeply introverted one that prefers specializing in work and transferring ahead creatively, moderately than partaking in interpersonal battle. “I simply wanna do my work and get performed and simply maintain going. Subsequent album,” he defined. “I do not know if he likes drama or likes to create it — I do not know — however you possibly can inform that we’re completely different folks, and it simply was not gonna work.”
Whereas Benton was the exception, Owen emphasised that he usually obtained alongside properly with almost everybody else related to Deicide, previous and current. “I obtained together with Steve [Asheim] nice and Kevin Quirion nice. I get together with the Hoffmans,” Owen mentioned. “I get together with all people, just about, besides Glen Benton.”
Owen additionally recalled an interview during which Benton claimed to not know who he was in any respect — one thing Owen discovered amusing moderately than offensive. “I feel I am simply so easy that you just suppose there’s extra to me,” Owen mentioned. “I’ve a cat rescue and I am both taking part in music or writing music or listening to music or watching school soccer or hockey. That is just about it.”
When host Chad “C.R.” Petit steered that some folks thrive on drama, Owen agreed, pointing to the broader Florida dying steel scene of the late ’80s and ’90s. “The Florida steel scene was like that. It was all drama. Band feuds and simply all types of crap,” Owen mentioned. “There was competitors. It is like — could not now we have a present with Morbid Angel, Deicide, Obituary and Cannibal Corpse? No, we will not do this. Why? Everyone’s pleasant with one another. Oh no, we’re not.”
Regardless of the historical past, Owen mentioned he hasn’t modified and nonetheless believes a united Florida dying steel tour — much like thrash steel’s “Large 4” — can be an important thought. “I am nonetheless the identical approach I at all times was,” he mentioned.
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