Suicide Silence - Remember… You Must Die (2023)^{Release ID: 43205}

There are few things in this world that disappoint me more than wasted potential. Suicide Silence were a band hellbent on a warpath to burn down every bridge they ever built when they dropped their 2017 self titled album, after telling fans who wanted them to "just play the old stuff" to fuck off. I respected the resolve, even if S/T was a very poor display of a new sound for the band.

Fast forward five years later and the band have gone back on their word and released an album that sounds like it should have been left in 2008. It should have been easy for a new look Suicide Silence to refine a nu metal sound for the modern age, without losing any bit of the bands identity. But instead, they caved under the pressure of those "fans" who could not bear to see their band evolve and change with time. The band just copied Metallica from St. Anger to Death Magnetic.

And so we have Remember... You Must Die, or The Cleansing, Pt. II. It is exactly what you would expect from a late 2000s deathcore record: overmicd kick drums, awful levelling, guitar chugging without any bass presence to compliment, lyrics about killing as well as being killed, and a heavy disconnect between the death metal and the hardcore breakdowns, both in terms of style and delivery.

This is about as barebones a deathcore album as you can get, coming from a band that should know better. Suicide Silence helped put deathcore on the radar, but now the band is stuck treading water. A lot of bands from that time are making vastly different music today and they have gotten a lot better for it, "fans" be damned. This isn't as bad as S/T, but that isn't saying much.

Best Songs: Capable of Violence (N.F.W.), Alter of Self