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- Suicide Silence - S/T MCD
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The EP opens with the track "Ending is The Beginning"
and the screams and deep growls over the heavy guitar and intense
drumming equal out to make quite the atrocious metal song, and
even the pig comes out and gives us some wicked squeals, which
are quite enjoyable and memorable. Breakdowns happen on this song,
as well as throughout the album, like these guys found the Book
of Breakdowns, crushed it up, and snorted it; so don't be surprised
if you are in the car listening to this CD and get the urge to
windmill kick your passenger. Songs like "Swarm" and
"About A Plane Crash" display the bands ability to speed
things up and keep them going at full pace, largely due to the
expert drumming that stays sharp and clean throughout the album.
In "Distorted Thought of Addiction" we are treated to
a hailstorm of growls and intense guitar and drum work, that promptly
brings this EP to its conclusion. The album wraps up with a live
version of "Destruction of A Statue" which displays
the bands ability to play their songs just as sharp and clean
as they are on the produced album. The C.D. also contains an enhanced
video of "Destruction of A Statue" giving those of you
who can't make it to a live a show a taste of what the Silence
can do on the set. All in all, this album picks you up at the
start and takes you on a enjoyable high paced Death Metal Adventure,
with a quick visit to Grindcore City and a prolonged tour of Breakdown
Village, with no rest stops along the way. This album is a gem
for those who love a fast, brutal, metal explosion in their ears,
and it doesn't get much more nuts than this. Check this band out,
especially if you get a chance to see them live, and pick up this
EP for a great fest of brutality.!!
(Taken from CaliAlive.com)
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Reviews
Kerrang
KKKK
Extreme
Metallic Terror From California
The Line between brutal death metal and post-Dillinger mathcore
is now so completely blurred that it's hard to know exactly who
Suicide Silence are trying to appeal to here. What really matters,
however, is that they are 100 per cent shit hot. Tighter than
a mallard's shit-chute and with pockets bulging with great riffs,
spin-on-a-penny tempo shifts and hair-raising dynamic about turns,
these young Americans have already mastered their art. And, judging
by the live film of the band on this CD performing 'Destruction
Of A Statue'. they're a staggering prospect inn the flesh too.
These reprobates could well be the future of death. (Don Lawson)
Rocksound
Magazine 8/10
Often
the success of a debut release can decide a group's future fate.
In other words, if a band fall at the first hurdle it's either
back to the drawing board or back to the nine-to-five day job,
as they say. Suicide Silence's self titled debut mini-album fortunately
leaps 2,000 feet over the first hurdle with this impressive blast
of hardcore grind and technical death metal. All the way from
Riverside, California, these guys can pack punches as big as Cephalic
Carnage and the rest of them. Vocalist Mitch Lucker's contorted
growls represent one of the more outstanding features on this
five tracker, though his voice is well complemented by two impressive
guitarists - Chris Garza & Mark Heylmun. buy this is you dare.
(Will Stone)
Drowned
In Sound 8/10
This
band is the equivalent of a musical lynch mob. You will flee for
your life as Suicide Silence pelt you with an almost impenetrable
cacophony. You thank the heavens that there are only five tracks
you have to dodge. Any more and you’d be beyond exhausted
and the fear of perishing would be all the more real. This eponymous
debut EP immediately unleashes what seems to be the soundtrack
to a hideous snuff movie with a caustic blend of doom sludge guitars
and gut-grinding screams laid carefully and comfortably over some
mind-bending, rapid-fire rhythm changes. Delicate, this is not.
There seem to be some of those all-too-familiar metalcore breakdowns
in ‘Ending Is The Beginning’ but you make the mistake
of placing those brackets around this brutality at your own peril.
The quintet show that they can shift from the almost painfully
slow riffery on the opening track to the definitely painful, express
train version of their band for the next tracks before ‘Distorted
Thought Of An Addiction’ brings the record to a dangerously
abrupt end. This record provides 16 grizzly minutes of fierce
and unorthodox musical pain. If that sounds a bit tasty, wait
‘til you find out what it thinks of you.
Zero
Tolerance 5/5
I've
had a copy of this absolutely monstrous Cd for a little while
before receiving it to spout forth nonsense about it, so knew
what to expect, thankfully. This is thoroughly sickeningly in
its heaviness, in it's relenting battering of the senses, and
if you like Meshuggah, My Cross to Bare, Origin, All Shall Perish,
Iniquity and Job For A Cowboy, you're in for an absolute treat
with this one! Takes a few listens to really get into the rhythms,
but when it clicks, the whole thing seems about 50 times heavier
again! Ravaging chugs, dischords to kill to and vocals to hang
yourself by.
Planetloud.com
Some
bands are just built to take your head off and California based
blast-metallers Suicide Silence are one of those bands. Mixing
chaotic Dillinger Escape Plan like whacked out fretwork with a
Cannibal Corpse style chug, these metalcore kids play the sort
of metal that, given the right live setting would cause absolute
pandemonium in the pit. Playing with the kind of ferocity that
only comes from relentless touring, Suicide Silence are up their
with the best of the underground metal scene. Listening to their
current mini-album, it's no wonder that hotbed of underground
metal In At The Deep End has picked them up because, quite frankly,
this band kill it!
RockARolla
Suicide
Silence's self titled debut is a downright punishing, cathartic
and sonically carnivorous release. The EP includes four studio
tracks as well as 'Destruction Of A Statue' which doubles as a
live track and video. Taking the harsh parts from the death and
metal genres, the band has created an unholy barrage of turbulent
riffing, blastbeats and absolutely mopnstrous breakdowns. like
some horrendous mix of Eternal Suffering, Exhumed and All Shall
Perish. Suicide Silence play music to torture people with. Fuck
using Metallica to interrogate people, this is the stuff. It is
the sound track to a personal war with insanity, anger and hatred,
led by vocalist mitch Lucker who has mastered screaming, grunting
and growling to produce frightening results. The songs are all
relentless and the time changes will definitely catch people off
guard as the band, showcase their technical ability. The breakdowns
employed by Suicide Silence are simply devastating and will surely
provoke bloody violence in the live environment. This must be
listened to if you like visceral and heavy music.
A
Load Of Noise Zine
Suicide
Silence must be listened to if you like harsh, heavy and fast
music. Originally released on Third Degree Records this 5 track
CD has been licensed to IATDE and it kills! The sound is an abrasive,
bludgeoning fusion of death metal and grind played with stunning
efficiency. Think early Cephalic Carnage mixed with Exhumed and
you'll have an idea of where SS are coming from. Frontman Mitch
Luckeris definitely one iof the sickest vocalists I've heard lately
and he has mastered screaming, grunting and growling to produce
frightening results. The songs are powerfully heavy, the production
bringing out the ferocity of the band brilliantly; with molten
guitars laying waste whilst the rhythm section brings the low
end frequency, double bass kicks and crashing chinas during the
breakdowns. If you like your death/grind breakdown free however
fear not as Suicide Silence aren't using them to fit into the
metalcore pack but throw them in when you least expect it to compliment
their blast beats and time changes. This CD is easily some of
the heaviest and nastiest stuff i've heard recently and will stand
out amongst the thousands of bands trying to be heavy.
Last
Hours
Fuck
me, this is brutal. From their name I was expecting some kind
of haircut metal-core wank, but Suicide Silence actually play
incredible extreme metal which blends influences from a myriad
of different genres. They switch from fast death metal to breakneck
grind-core with relentless drumming throughout, chucking in some
massive breakdowns that made me want to smash someone’s
face in. Usually this sort of music can be a bit too much for
me and can get really confusing but Suicide Silence manage to
keep a real clarity to their sound, are super tight and don’t
just turn into a noisy blur. I can only imagine that this would
be even better live. Seriously worth checking out. (Greg)
Communion
8/10
The
only good bit of metal I got to review this week. Possibly the
only good metal release this week – no excuses for not buying
it then. Suicide Silence sound like a less overtly tech Cephalic
Carnage if they loved good metallic hardcore. Don’t let
the proliferation of deathmetalcore chancers put you off this
one – Suicide Silence are clearly the real deal. Judging
by the photos half them are proper death metal dudes who remember
Deicide being good, whilst the other half were probably there
when Judge first rolled in to town. All of this leads to obscenely
guttural vocals, the thickest guitar tone this side of a Yorkie
bar and epic DM riffs that you cant help gurning too. The riffs
are incredible, the songs are well structured – another
great addition to In At The Deep End. The live song tagged onto
the end of this isn’t that hot – but that doesn’t
matter so much. Roll on the full-length.
Punknews
4/5
Metal
is a interesting genre. The musicians can be so overwhelmingly
brilliant but the music is so often lacking in innovativeness.
I keep checking out metal bands that are recommended to me by
friends or I see a positive review of and I'm left sitting there
uninspired by almost all of it. For some bands, I even try to
force myself to enjoy it but still can't manage too. Thank God,
then, for Suicide Silence. I don't even have to try and I think
it's great! Technical,
tight, sub-genre-melting, violent, intelligent. Hell, it's bands
like this that make me over-look the pointless noisy grumblings
of the singer! It's bands like this that remind me why I enjoy
metal. And this is the first time I agree with the blurb sent
along with the CD, "songs that are complex without being
mystifying, and savagely fast and explosive without becoming a
featureless blur". It's quite accurate. It's like Cephalic
Carnage taken down a notch to make it slightly more comprehensible.
Fantastically enjoyable. But don't expect much in the way of epic
melodic melody.
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