According to Terra.cl, DEICIDE's previously announced concert in Santiago, Chile will go ahead as planned despite objections from local church officials.

The July 15 performance by the long-running Florida-based death metallers was previously said to be in jeopardy after the Chilean church had asked the authorities to prevent the group from playing in country out of respect for an Italian Catholic priest who was murdered by a DEICIDE fan almost a year ago.

Rodrigo Orias, 26 (photo#1, photo#2, posing in Chile with MARDUK), slit Father Faustino Gazziero's (photo#1, photo#2, photo#3) throat, smeared his face with the victim's blood and then stabbed himself several times in the chest and neck with the same knife (photo of similar knife/dagger) at the conclusion of a Mass at Santiago's Metropolitan Cathedral on July 24, 2004 while hundreds of churchgoers watched in horror, according to published reports.

Orias, who had a pentagram branded on the left side of his chest (covering his heart) and several other symbols of the occult tattooed on his body (photo of one of Orias' tattoos), reportedly asked DARK FUNERAL singer Emperor Magus Caligula during the Swedish black metal band's visit to Santiago in 2003 to burn an inverted cross on Rodrigo's arm with a cigar — a "mark" which Orias later planned to make into a tattoo.

Mauricio Moreno, webmaster of the Chilean metal portal Metal.hub.cl, praised the organizers of the upcoming DEICIDE concert and pointed out the band's immense popularity in Chile (at press time, more than half of the concert's 3,500 available tickets have been sold). "DEICIDE is a pioneering band in death metal and they have served as an inspiration to many local bands," he said.

Regarding the church's attempts to get the concert cancelled, Moreno said, "Although DEICIDE's lyrics are strongly against Christianity, they are just that — lyrics. Rodrigo Orias had psychological problems which caused him to do what he did, and I do not believe that a normal, well-adjusted person would even contemplate doing something like what he did. The position of the church does not bother me because I believe that adult people will have no problems understanding that this is just music and nothing more." He added that "each person is responsible for his or her own actions, and if a band's lyrics can influence you to live your life a certain way, you have to go a psychologist."

Enrico López, host of the Chilean program "Rock Avalanche" on radio Valdivia, stated about DEICIDE's lyrics, "these are just words, and they are not to be taken literally. Many people of Valdivia are going to travel to Santiago to see DEICIDE perform. They are a group who are recognized for their contributions to the metal scene."

The case of Rodrigo Orias does not worry López, because he thinks that "[Orias] was not thinking very clearly. A normal person is not going to do what he did and it is unfair to lump all metal fans in with someone like that."