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Deathcore—what a cool fucking name. And yes, it’s
fitting for Suicide Silence. There are not many American metal
bands that have put out as an abrasive an album as No
Time to Bleed and had any amount of success (No. 32 on
Billboard’s Top 200). This follows 2007’s The
Cleansing, which to date has sold an unprecedented 70,000
units in the U.S alone.
Suicide Silence is to "The New Wave of American Heavy
Metal" as Slipknot was to nü-metal in the late ‘90s.
They aimed to take away the commercial appeal, silliness and
predictable song,s and overwhelm it with chaos from all sides.
Things needed to get dangerous again, and they succeeded.
Suicide Silence combines death metal, hardcore and grind with
ferocious breakdowns that conjure visions of broken bones
and blood splattering in mosh pits worldwide. Imagine The
Black Dahlia Murder, Napalm Death and a band like Whitechapel
playing together.
Songs like “Wake Up” and “No Time to Bleed”
are the blueprint for deathcore, both climaxing with muderous
breakdowns. “Smoke,” “Lifted” and
“Genocide” are grindcore to the bone, done Suicide
Silence style. There’s nothing to single out here as
experimental—this whole style is an experiment of all
forms of extreme music. Vocals are high-pitched and guttural
growls, split equally, and fly at you with reckless abandon.
The album was produced by Machine (Lamb of God, 18 Visions,
Clutch), who no doubt adds to the abrasiveness and filth of
the album. My personal favorite might be “… And
She Bled,” a brooding instrumental laden with a sample
of what seems to be a 911 distress call from a woman amidst
a violent murder. Ah yes, deathcore—a cool fucking name
indeed.
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