GLEN BENTON’s Reason For Hating Meet And Greets Is Pretty Heartwarming

Deicide‘s Glen Benton has gotten a popularity for being this large powerful man in metallic, however his reply on why Deicide does not do meet and greets is surprisingly heartwarming.

In an interview with Prescription Punk Rock, Benton stated he’d merely slightly signal one thing for a fan out of the kindness in his coronary heart and never cost somebody for the expertise. Benton stated he acknowledges that meet and greets could make up for what artists aren’t making in music gross sales today, however he is nonetheless not into the thought.

“I used to be having this dialog with the fellows within the band the opposite day, ‘trigger we have been speaking about meet-and-greets and doing that form of stuff. And I am simply not a fan of the entire charging followers for a signature. I give a fan a signature out of kindness of my coronary heart, not as a result of I wanna earn cash off of them.

“The truth that they are a fan and so they take heed to our materials… I do know issues are completely different — most individuals get [music] at no cost now — however I nonetheless cannot come to phrases with that, to cost any individual for my signature, particularly a fan… And it makes me really feel form of bizarre.”

Benton then went on to match his emotions to that of Rush drummer Neil Peart, later noting that the livid Glen Benton of Deicide character followers see is hardly the Glen Benton at residence.

He continued: “Neil Peart, I’ve seen an interview with him, and he felt uncomfortable in these conditions, and I simply really feel the identical method, man. I simply don’t love being put in these positions the place I am sitting at a desk and persons are gawking at me like I am within the Jim Rose Circus or one thing. I assume I am simply too actual and too deep for that form of shit.

“To me, I feel it is — pardon the expression — I feel it is a poser form of factor. That is for posers. And Steve‘s [Asheim, Deicide drummer], like, ‘I really feel the identical method. I really feel like I wanna climb out of my pores and skin after I’m in these conditions.’ And like I say, I am simply not into that form of factor. ‘Trigger I am up there, if I am wrangled into this stuff, I am pondering to myself as I am up there and everyone’s saying all of the compliments and every thing, and I feel to myself, ‘Man, if they will solely see me after I’m outdoors mowing my grass, washing the automotive and cleansing the toilet. If they might solely see me now.’

“In order that’s form of the way it makes me really feel uncomfortable, ‘trigger I do not consider myself like a rock star or something like that. I simply do not put myself in that [frame of mind]. I can not. I actually do not. I can not relate.”

Deicide is ready to decimate North American this September and October with Krisiun, Inferi, and Cloak as help. Tickets are available here… however y’know, not meet and greets. You fuckin’ poser.

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