"We didn't want our record to sound like everybody else's," Suicide Silence frontman Mitch Lucker tells MTVnews.com's Metal File.
It's a common claim, but something few extreme metal band actually achieve. That's why, when choosing a producer for The Cleansing, Suicide Silence reached out to John Travis (Wu-Tang Clan, Static-X), someone unfamiliar with the usual tricks of the trade.
"He'd never really done a record with a metal band before," Lucker says. "That's what we wanted. We wanted a different feel, a different sound, a different mood to it. But we still wanted to keep it savage and violent — that's the way it should be."
Instead of having each artist record his parts separately, The Cleansing was tracked live to capitalize on the band's spontaneity and the players were encouraged to experiment with a multitude of techniques as they tracked.
"What we tried to do was to incorporate tons of different styles of metal — death, speed, metalcore — into our songs, because most death-metal bands get labeled 'death metal,' and that's all they ever are," Lucker says. "They're confined to just one genre. But we wanted to separate ourselves from that and give each song a different sound, so you can listen to the whole record and not get tired of it. Kids who listen to all genres of metal will find something to like on this record, because we tried to be as open as possible on it."
To support The Cleansing (which comes out tomorrow), Suicide Silence recently shot a video for "The Price of Beauty" with Matt Bass (the Esoteric, the Black Dahlia Murder). In the video, Suicide Silence thrashes away in a dark warehouse while a young girl is tortured by a sadistic doctor.
"It's pretty violent," Lucker says. "Matt wrote the treatment to the song, and it fits so well — the video came out grotesque and intense, just like the song. We wanted a girl that looked really innocent, like, 'I want to get fake boobies and a fake nose' — the total little generic Orange County chick. And she was perfect for it. She let us cut her ears off — she was a good sport."
For the full interview with Suicide Silence and more metal than you'll find in a Black Sabbath box set check out this week's Metal File.
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