Suicide Silence - The Black Crown review
| Band: | Suicide Silence |
| Album: | The Black Crown |
| Style: | Deathcore |
| Release date: | July 12, 2011 |
| A review by: | Doc G. |
01. Slaves To Substance
02. O.C.D.
03. Human Violence
04. You Only Live Once
05. Fuck Everything
06. March To The Black Crown
07. Witness The Addiction [feat. Jonathan Davis]
08. Cross-Eyed Catastrophe
09. Smashed [feat. Frank Mullen]
10. The Only Thing That Sets Us Apart
11. Cancerous Skies
12. Revival Of Life [Limited Delux Edition track]
13. Superbeast [Rob Zombie cover][iTunes Edition track]
...Time for another big can of worms to be opened up. Here's another album which, regardless of how you approach it in your review, someone is going to completely lose their shit on you for either being too harsh, or not being harsh enough. A lot of people seem to hate Suicide Silence. Well, while I certainly don't understand the intense animosity people express towards this band, I don't exactly understand the attraction either.
Let's be clear right from the bat; this album almost doesn't suck. There are quite a few cool sounding riffs scattered throughout the album, mostly the eerie leads that poke through from time to time. The overall feel is as heavy as you could want it to be, especially in this one breakdown...
...And that other breakdown...
...And those seven or eight songs that seem like a continuous breakdown...
Alright, alright, before you jump on my ass, I've got no beef with breakdowns. The idea of being offended by a drop in tempo is ludicrous. In fact, they really have their place from time to time. When over half your album sounds like one perpetual breakdown, then we've got problems. It's caught in this constant loop of pounding mid-tempo riffing that makes this an incredibly stale listen. The odd track or two close to the end of The Black Crown in which the band manages to pick up the pace are actually pretty nifty. It's promising, but realistically too little too late by that point in the album. Hell, even an entire track or two like this would be fine, but 75% of the songs on this album sound virtually identical. I'd probably be sold on Suicide Silence if they managed to write songs in more than one tempo, this is just stagnant.
Rating:
7.7
7.7
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Rating: 7.7 |
When you look at the comments section below one of their videos on YouTube, the words that you'll find there are most often "gay," "fag," "shit" or a combination of these. We're all aware how hated Suicide Silence and deathcore are in general, but whether we like it or not, these young Americans have become really big. Ok, their debut album, The Cleansing, was a mediocre deathcore record. Their second LP, No Time To Bleed, showed a band developing and even though it was based on deathcore structures, it contained more departures from the previously chosen genre and more experiments, for example wider and wiser selection of electronic samples. In a nutshell, it was a better CD. Now we have The Black Crown, which is a proof that Suicide Silence do not intend to stand still. Based on the genre they have helped to create, they have become a trademark of and also bear the burden of being its scapegoat, they are on their way of creating something on their own. What I mean is that they distanced themselves from other deathcore groups and when you listen to them and compare to, let's say, Oceano (yuck!), you can clearly see a difference. Read more ›› |
Rating:
4.6
4.6
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Rating: 4.6 |
"Why add a breakdown into a song that is already just one continuous breakdown?" - Unkown. Wise words, especially if directed towards Suicide Silence. Their newest album The Black Crown is exactly that, one monotonous breakdown. When I listen to a band, I try to keep an open mind, I try to go in as unbiased as possible, but even with that mindset, I was still sickened by this album. Read more ›› |
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| Thryce Retired Staff Elite Posts: 4346  |
Pssh! Suiside Silence is so fake and inoffensive :  Keep the trendy shit out of deathcore please!
---- Your favorite band sucks.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
Written by Thryce on 30.07.2011 at 17:34 but then again isn't all deathcore inoffensive, fake and trendy? 
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Account deleted Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 30.07.2011 at 17:37 No 
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| Mattybu Posts: 2589  |
Written by [user id=111774] on 30.07.2011 at 06:51 Haha, well said, well said.
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| Cynic Metalhead Ambrish Saxena Posts: 7561  |
Written by [user id=101272] on 30.07.2011 at 02:48 Sorry didnt saw this coming but its like Wow!!!!!! I m mentioned in to your esteemed comment. *Feeling honored* btw this album is fucking good. I love the chug chug breakdowns and unnecessarily riffs, solos and being a huge fan of this hyped artist I'll say this band has picked up the fucking good direction to shoot their fame up.
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| Cynic Metalhead Ambrish Saxena Posts: 7561 |
Written by SycoMantis on 01.08.2011 at 22:50 Yeah dude thats right. Posers like Lit Metalheads has ruined this shit up! xDD
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| Doc G. Full Grown Hoser Staff Posts: 9718  |
Written by Cynic Metalhead on 02.08.2011 at 00:00 You worship Suicide Silence, pal, knock off the "metaller than thou" shit.
---- "I got a lot of really good ideas, problem is, most of them suck." - George Carlin
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Written by Doc G. on 02.08.2011 at 03:49 QFT
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Written by [user id=111774] on 02.08.2011 at 23:34 no, i like proper diction. the aforementioned (former, actually) friend also thought Atreyu was a Death metal band, i guess i should have known better than to take his word for it.
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Written by thrashtilldeaf on 03.08.2011 at 11:43 Well, you're clearly a troll. I just haven't figured out if you're ponderer or not.
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| Spirit Molecule spirit molecule Posts: 1918  |
Lol, I'm convinced that thrashtilldeaf is Cynic Metalheads long lost brother or either CM in some parallel universe  You should give the trash a break bro
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Account deleted Written by Spirit Molecule on 03.08.2011 at 12:16 Or its Void having some birthday fun... 
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Account deleted Written by [user id=112141] on 03.08.2011 at 13:50 Nope, I would never use MoP as a scale by which to judge albums. Has some classic tunes on it, also has some boring tunes. Weakest of the Metalliclassics for sure.
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| Daggon Underpaid M.D. Posts: 1689  |
Don't like this shit, never liked it, and never will... Nuff said.
---- "Les vers savent qu'ils n'ont pas d'ailes, c'est pour cela qu'ils se cachent sous terre"
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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 9155  |
 Utter trash, and I'm not even biased towards deathcore.
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| flightoficarus Stamp Tramp Posts: 1116  |
Meh, I don't see why all the insanely polarized opinions on this album. To me this album has the most distinctly different songs and better use of the instruments. The whole crazy death-riff thing has been done to...well death. More importantly, it has been done better and pretty much been perfected by the likes of Cannibal Corpse and Dying Fetus. I give these guys credit for melding these ideas with the more groove-driven Korn-like sound. They are obviously aware of it given Davis's contribution to the album. Rather than just trying to emulate the death style, they have made something more their own. It may not be the most unique thing ever, but I enjoy listening to this. If I want death, I'll go listen to some death.
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