Band - Suicide Silence
Release - Suicide Silence MCD
Band Members - Mike Bodkins-bass, Chris Garza-guitar, Josh
Goddard-drums, Mark Heylmun-guitar, Mitch Lucker-vocals
Based - Riverside, California, USA
Street Date - 24th April 06
Tracklisting - 1. Ending is the Beginning 2. Swarm 3. About a Plane
Crash 4. Distorted Thought of Addiction 5. Destruction of a Statue
(live) + (enhanced CD with video)
For Fans of - Cephalic Carnage, Premonitions Of War, The Black Dahlia Murder
Underground. Where else would you expect the to find the true blood and
guts of the extreme metal scene? The filthiest, most brutal bands
dishing out the most intense punishment are here, unfettered by
here-today-gone-tomorrow trends or the temptation to conform to some
notion of what a metal band should be. Suicide Silence, an astonishingly
well-developed five-piece from Riverside, CA, USA, are a true product of
that always thriving underground, a band single-mindedly focused on
creating rabidly heavy and aggressive music.
Suicide Silence started in late 2002 as a side project for its members
who were all involved in other local bands at the time. Things didn't
get serious, however, until 2004, when the current lineup was
solidified. “Early on we were slower and sludgier,” explains drummer
Josh Goddard, “but through a few member changes the sound became more
powerful and energetic.” This mix of musicians brought together their
influences death metal, grindcore, black metal, hardcore, doom and
combined them into songs that are complex without being mystifying, and
savagely fast and explosive without becoming a featureless blur.
Their debut 5-song CD on In At The Deep End Records in the UK, licensed
from Third Degree Records is a brutal testament to the sort of damage
Suicide Silence is capable of inflicting. Though definitely rooted in
what Goddard calls a “fast-paced death metal style,” it defies that
genre's sometimes predictable conventions, striving instead for
something more unique. The songs are dynamic and crushing, shifting
effortlessly from insane grind chaos into total molten sludge, with
plenty of dynamic twists and turns along the way. Vocalist Mitch Lucker
screams, growls and grunts over an ungodly guitar assault, while the
band's surgically precise rhythm section handles the disorienting time
signatures and snail-paced grooves with equal efficiency.
It is a sound that, though well-manifested on their CD, is devastating
live. Suicide Silence's breakdowns cause havoc in the pit, their
blast-beats are neck-snapping and there is a palpable sense of barely
controlled pandemonium when they play live. “We don't hold back,” says
Goddard, “and we try to give the crowd a show rather than standing
around watching the moshpit and acting tough.” The reputation they've
staked as a fearsome live act has brought them the opportunity to play
with bands as diverse as God Forbid, Impaled, Bury Your Dead and Between
the Buried and Me. And touring fervently in support of every release is
a given.
Suicide Silence may be a product of the burgeoning metal underground in
the U.S., but their goals are far from modest. Without pandering to
trends, or riding some scene's coattails, the band always wants to move
forward, wherever it takes them. “We never want to stop improving as a
band, as individual musicians, as songwriters and as performers,” says
Goddard. “We want to make sure that every album we put out and every
show we play is better than the last.”
www.suicidesilence.net www.myspace.com/suicidesilence
Release - Suicide Silence MCD
Band Members - Mike Bodkins-bass, Chris Garza-guitar, Josh
Goddard-drums, Mark Heylmun-guitar, Mitch Lucker-vocals
Based - Riverside, California, USA
Street Date - 24th April 06
Tracklisting - 1. Ending is the Beginning 2. Swarm 3. About a Plane
Crash 4. Distorted Thought of Addiction 5. Destruction of a Statue
(live) + (enhanced CD with video)
For Fans of - Cephalic Carnage, Premonitions Of War, The Black Dahlia Murder
Underground. Where else would you expect the to find the true blood and
guts of the extreme metal scene? The filthiest, most brutal bands
dishing out the most intense punishment are here, unfettered by
here-today-gone-tomorrow trends or the temptation to conform to some
notion of what a metal band should be. Suicide Silence, an astonishingly
well-developed five-piece from Riverside, CA, USA, are a true product of
that always thriving underground, a band single-mindedly focused on
creating rabidly heavy and aggressive music.
Suicide Silence started in late 2002 as a side project for its members
who were all involved in other local bands at the time. Things didn't
get serious, however, until 2004, when the current lineup was
solidified. “Early on we were slower and sludgier,” explains drummer
Josh Goddard, “but through a few member changes the sound became more
powerful and energetic.” This mix of musicians brought together their
influences death metal, grindcore, black metal, hardcore, doom and
combined them into songs that are complex without being mystifying, and
savagely fast and explosive without becoming a featureless blur.
Their debut 5-song CD on In At The Deep End Records in the UK, licensed
from Third Degree Records is a brutal testament to the sort of damage
Suicide Silence is capable of inflicting. Though definitely rooted in
what Goddard calls a “fast-paced death metal style,” it defies that
genre's sometimes predictable conventions, striving instead for
something more unique. The songs are dynamic and crushing, shifting
effortlessly from insane grind chaos into total molten sludge, with
plenty of dynamic twists and turns along the way. Vocalist Mitch Lucker
screams, growls and grunts over an ungodly guitar assault, while the
band's surgically precise rhythm section handles the disorienting time
signatures and snail-paced grooves with equal efficiency.
It is a sound that, though well-manifested on their CD, is devastating
live. Suicide Silence's breakdowns cause havoc in the pit, their
blast-beats are neck-snapping and there is a palpable sense of barely
controlled pandemonium when they play live. “We don't hold back,” says
Goddard, “and we try to give the crowd a show rather than standing
around watching the moshpit and acting tough.” The reputation they've
staked as a fearsome live act has brought them the opportunity to play
with bands as diverse as God Forbid, Impaled, Bury Your Dead and Between
the Buried and Me. And touring fervently in support of every release is
a given.
Suicide Silence may be a product of the burgeoning metal underground in
the U.S., but their goals are far from modest. Without pandering to
trends, or riding some scene's coattails, the band always wants to move
forward, wherever it takes them. “We never want to stop improving as a
band, as individual musicians, as songwriters and as performers,” says
Goddard. “We want to make sure that every album we put out and every
show we play is better than the last.”
www.suicidesilence.net www.myspace.com/suicidesilence
