Metal maniacs, rejoice! I'm proud to present to you: SUICIDE SILENCE; signed via Nuclear Blast Records, hailing from the United States Of America - performing Nu / Alternative / Metalcore, on their 5^th eponymous self-titled album.

Since formation in 2002; the quintet in question have 4 albums behind them, I'm introduced to their 5^th "Suicide Silence". Deathcore is a sub-genre that doesn't necessarily grab my attention; to me, it's a strangely developed sub-genre that is up there with Prog...although I've come to appreciate that genre a lot lately, but that's besides the point - what we have here is a Nu/Alternative/Metalcore quartet that unites all of that into a Deathcore perspective. Ranging at around 44:13, and consisting of 9 songs that seem extensive to what has been delivered. Right off the speakers; "Doris" begins with a shocking turn of events, I honestly went in with high expectations...those standards were immediately shot down to low when I heard the high-pitched, whiny vocals from the newly recruited Eddie Hermida. This is not a biased review from what I've previously seen from critiques - only my mind cannot comprehend how unbalanced the track is vocally and instrumentally...

...this comes as a trend throughout the rest of the album, "Silence" showcases an unprecedented distinctive that makes me question why the band went to this route of extreme experimentation in which doesn't really sound that good quite honestly. Chris Garza & Mark Heylmun on guitars formulates a very uniquely compiled yet complexly intricate design in their efforts to unleash dexterous riffery; all sounds bland and flat and not much is being brought to the music player. "Listen" was another baffler...the sound production sounds distorted and the powerhouse from Alex Lopez on drums and Dan Kenny adds less enlightening contributions for that enticingly unparalleled discovery for musical fulfillment. The songwriting in "Dying In A Red Room" inconsistently provides rhythmic enticement and compels me to say that fusing Death Metal with the Core Metal elements just really doesn't work for me, atmospherically and instrumentally.

"Hold Me Up, Hold Me Down" continues the flow of inefficiency, as I scratch my head to the strangely organic aesthetic in this product. The musicianship does however merit in interestingly pounding melodies that are very brutalizing; it just doesn't add to a captivating production though. This is what happens when you incorporate multiple substances to one fusion; the titles in the next songs "Run", "The Zero" and "Conformity" lack indecent construction to formulaic elegant composing. Speaking of song titles - "Don't Be Careful You Might Get Hurt" has to be the most incoherent title I've ever seen...all that said and done, laughable - highly pitched "tee-hee's", frightening pig squeals, and blandness makes me think that this is why SUICIDE SILENCE aren't even under the Metal Archive's database. Makes me believe that METALLICA's "St. Anger" was a blessing in disguise!! Overall - better off avoiding. <