Band:	Chopstick Suicide
Album:	Lost Fathers And Sons
Style:	Math metal, Metalcore
Release date:	March 29, 2012
A review by:	Doc G.

01. Everyone Sleeps But Me
02. The Chalk And The Matter
03. Shores Are Not For Vacancies
04. Television Television
05. As I Lay Fail
06. Small People, Broken Glasses
07. Your Average Hero
08. Kolpa

Chopstick Suicide? Sounds interesting, especially paired up with that bizarre cover artwork. So just how crazy is this shit? Well, not as crazy as one might be lead to believe...It's got a certain stabbing, jagged charm to it, but nothing too surprising by today's standards.

Chopstick Suicide really seem to be channelling some Dillinger Escape Plan here. A sound that roughly revolves around a techy modern hardcore type of deal. Take the tangible, juicy riffs that D.E.P. Throw into their music, but pair it up with that distinct feeling of randomness found with Between The Buried And Me. I believe they call this "mathcore."

...And that's where the problem becomes apparent. As soon as there's a reasonable sub-genre named after a certain sound, it usually means there's enough followers to constitute having a special box with it's own special label. Chopstick Suicide toss a few whimsical jazz guitar pieces in there to keep things appropriately random, and a few segments have a distinct punk sound to them, but aside from that, it's very much assembly-line mathcore. Something like this may have had a bigger impact a few years ago, but with bands like Between The Buried And Me and Dillinger Escape Plan running around out there, this just seems a bit unneeded.

It takes a certain kind of person to love music like this. You've got to have a taste for metalcore, hardcore, and random, pointy sort of tech-metal. If you've made all of those qualifications, then you also have to enjoy it to the point of being able to recognize the very few subtle distinct qualities Chopstick Suicide have. They are there, and they do execute everything pretty well, just not strongly enough to give this any more than a half-hearted recommendation to anyone aside from those who already love this type of music.