Suicide Silence, No Time To Bleed

Posted on 31st Aug 09 by Jonathan Keane | 1

Suicide Silence (SS) are in somewhat of a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” scenario. With the recent surge in deathcore in recent years many bands are tarred with the same brush as some lacklustre bands. Why? Because they hit the scene at the same time as those lesser bands. Californian bruisers Suicide Silence are one such band.

Suicide Silence, No Time to Bleed

Debut album The Cleansing was impressive but still a largely unripe effort. Despite that the album hit the Billboard 200 at #94, a notable feat considering the nature of the band. To follow things up SS hit the road and while some questioned their credibility the band focused on their craft and No Time To Bleed bears the results.

The immediately fevered stomp of Wake Up gets the ball rolling here. If there’s anything that the track does, it strongly sets a tone of no frills ferocity.

It’s something they do well and they know it, because in no way does the record ever stray from this path. There’s plenty of double bass punishment on Smoke, with breakdowns to keep the kids happy. Something Invisible keeps the tempo with some speedy guitar work, then the trash come full force and the frenzied ending of title track No Time to Bleed will incite devastation in many a pit. A hum-able riff then enters the fray on Suffer.

The first six tracks have no let up. But they then lead into the nightmarish interlude …And Then She Bled, a track with dark riffs playing under a distressed woman reporting a bloody murder to the police. But then there’s no waiting around, as Wasted recommences the carnage with vocalist, Mitch Lucker shrieking and bellowing his way through psychotic verses.

Lucker then churns out his vitriol on Genocide;”She’s a filthy bitch, anyway”, any one? Closer, Disengage is replete with a heaving breakdown; the track retains the brutality and leads into the solemn outro, a moment to catch your breath if anything.

Suicide Silence has made themselves enemies of old school death metal purists. They’ve taken the sound of the pioneers as influences and sculpted a sound a little more their own but at the same time retaining their love of the innovators; and for some reason that pisses some people off. While No Time To Bleed is a far cry from anything strikingly original and won’t half contend with releases of the last couple of years from the likes of Cannibal Corpse (Kill) it’s a solid and satisfying listen.

Drop-d Rating: 7/10

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