Glen Benton

Glen Benton represents a kind of artistic stubbornness I genuinely respect. As the vocalist, bassist, and lyricist of Deicide, and one of the last original members, he has spent decades committed to an extreme, uncompromising vision of death metal. His work with Vital Remains only underscores that single-mindedness. I am not interested in whether his music pleases everyone; what compels me is the refusal to soften with passing trends. To me, Benton is a study in conviction, an artist who decided early what he wanted to sound like and then defended that identity across a long career. That kind of consistency is rare anywhere.

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Name (English)

Glen Benton

Name (Japanese)

グレン・ベントン

Reading

ぐれん・べんとん

Born

June 18, 1967 (age 59)

Origin

Niagara Falls, New York, United States

Occupation

singer / bassist / guitarist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Goat

• Official sitehttp://www.deicide.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen%20Benton
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q559273

Tags

• New York
• singer
• bassist
• guitarist

Last updated

September 25, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.