Former Deicide guitarist Jack Owen has opened up about his strained relationship with frontman Glen Benton, providing candid perception into the character conflict that finally 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 totally different folks, man.”
Owen described himself as a deeply introverted one who prefers specializing in work and transferring ahead creatively, reasonably than participating in interpersonal battle. “I simply wanna do my work and get accomplished 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 may inform that we’re totally different folks, and it simply was not gonna work.”
Whereas Benton was the exception, Owen emphasised that he typically 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 everyone, just about, besides Glen Benton.”
Owen additionally recalled an interview wherein Benton claimed to not know who he was in any respect — one thing Owen discovered amusing reasonably than offensive. “I believe I am simply so easy that you just assume 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 faculty soccer or hockey. That is just about it.”
When host Chad “C.R.” Petit advised that some folks thrive on drama, Owen agreed, pointing to the broader Florida loss of life metallic scene of the late ’80s and ’90s. “The Florida metallic scene was like that. It was all drama. Band feuds and simply every kind of crap,” Owen mentioned. “There was competitors. It is like — could not we’ve got a present with Morbid Angel, Deicide, Obituary and Cannibal Corpse? No, we won’t try 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 loss of life metallic tour — just like thrash metallic’s “Massive 4” — could be an incredible thought. “I am nonetheless the identical method I all the time was,” he mentioned.
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