Suicide Silence: The Cleansing

Riverside California's Suicide Silence makes their debut for Century Media with their first full length release, The Cleansing. These guys have amassed quite a following for themselves since their self titled debut EP was released in 2005. With all the Metal subgenre's being bandied about these days The Cleansing has to fit in somewhere. Deathcore would be good description. There are elements of grind, death, metalcore all melded together on the opus. If you're into breakdowns, I mean REALLY into breakdowns, then this CD is right up your alley. As a matter of fact, there are probably too many breakdowns. The music is brutal and so are the vocals, which vocalist Mitch Lucker does a good job with. Lucker mixes it up nicely with the screeching higher pitched vocals intermingled with the more guttural, traditional death metal vocals. The problem here overall is that there just isn't anything very original or very exciting. Sure it's heavy, sure it's brutal, but so are a whole bunch other CD's that have come out recently. Problem is, there are so many young bands out there that are trying to jump on the "extreme" bandwagon that they're all starting to sound like the same bland boring hybrid. Unfortunately with The Cleansing, Suicide Silence falls right into the bland, boring same old, same old category. If you're into this type of music you can certainly listen to this CD and enjoy it for what it is, but don't expect anything to get overly excited about.

Track Listing
1. Revelations (Intro)
2. Unanswered
3. Hands Of A Killer
4. The Hands Of Beauty
5. The Fallen
6. No Pity For A Coward
7. The Disease
8. Bludgeoned To Death
9. Girl Of Glass
10. In A Photograph
11. Eyes Sewn Shut
12. Green Monster

Added: October 28th 2007
Reviewer: Ken Sanford
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