“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.
September 24th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
This is an awesome post.
September 24th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
you guys kill, keep making amazing albums!
September 25th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
“We didn’t want our record to sound like everybody else’s,”
Well guys, I would say you failed…..you’re another facelees piece of downtuned chug fill a song with breakdowns because you can’t play guitar trash that is cluttering the metal scene today. I’ll be glad when you all die out. It’s just nu-metal all over again. No talent but for some reason dumb ass kids buy it up.
September 26th, 2007 at 10:44 am
“Well guys, I would say you failed…..you’re another facelees piece of downtuned chug fill a song with breakdowns because you can’t play guitar trash that is cluttering the metal scene today. I’ll be glad when you all die out. It’s just nu-metal all over again. No talent but for some reason dumb ass kids buy it up.”
yep, thats right, some kid calling himself “The Devil” is calling you stupid. SS are really good, but its okey if you keep listening to music that no one gives a damn about. I think the reason that bands play break downs is becuase it is so boring to watch five guys stand up on stage and never move because they are so concerned with hitting the perfect notes; I would much rather go to a a show were there was talent and brutality in the same songs.
January 18th, 2008 at 8:51 am
I love everything about you guys.
Point blank.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:30 am
It was pure torture having to listen to this band while waiting for Nile to play. I couldn’t even tell if the musicians were good, because the singer’s voice was overbearingly obnoxious.
Sorry Guys, I know you tried!
March 16th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
well even though the cd was totally against my beliefs i still enjoyed the sound quality of it……it was good overall……keep it up guys
April 24th, 2008 at 10:42 am
you guys r so amazing
i hope i will get to see you guys one day
you guys are my ispiration for metal
thanx
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:19 pm
You guys rock! my no. 1 band of all time! i love it how they put so many diffrent vocals and stuff like that! the guitar is fun to play too! KEEP UP THE KICK ASS WORK!!! [ Any 1 know when the next cd is comming out? ]