"...On this, their debut, it is evident that Deicide had no intention of messing around. Ten tracks and a runtime just a bit over half an hour, this is a release that hits fast and hits hard. The memorable riffs are exceedingly tight with a really cool guitar tone, the drumming of Steve Asheim is devastating and precise and Glen Benton's vocals spit bile and venom at his preferred target of organised religion with a genuinely disturbing spite and evil-sounding growl. Deicide is an album that is trimmed of all fat and is made of nothing but muscle, bone and gristle, getting straight down to business and never diverting from the path of intimidating and scaring the living shit out of anyone and everyone. The Hoffamn's solos are not really anything more than functional, but this album isn't about anything as superfluous as fancy guitar solos. It is the riffs that "Deicide" is all about and for encapsulating the pure distilled essence of death metal the riffs on this take some beating." 

- metal.archives.com