Century Media
2009
No Time To Bleed
About This Album
Thanks to a strong first album for Century Media (2007's The Cleansing) and to possessing one of the scene's most powerful and dynamic stage shows, California's Suicide Silence quickly managed to distance themselves somewhat from the teeming mass of deathcore bands that began crowding America's every rehearsal space, record store, and concert venue in the late '00s. Yes, detractors of the style as a whole still wondered what all the fuss was about, but the quintet's second full-length album, 2009's No Time to Bleed, may help to answer some of their questions with the corroborating evidence of an even better set of songs than their debut's. In a nutshell, the album proves that Suicide Silence are one of the only bands of their ilk to have cracked the admittedly limited, if contradiction-happy, deathcore template (which goes something like this: scream, growl, blast, doom, grind, grind, and grind some more) by incorporating foreign heavy metal objects, and -- here lies the key -- making them integral elements of each song, rather than forced displays of reckless eclecticism. Consequently, notable new offerings like "Lifted," "Wasted," and "Disengage" jump off the note-blackened music sheet via illuminating glimpses of thrash, doom, classic metal -- you name it; screaming pinch harmonics and fluid solos (see "Smoke," "Genocide"); and a surprisingly varied array of guitar riff textures, liable to impress the likes of Dimebag Darrell (RIP) or Tool's Adam Jones.
Track List (try tracks 1,3,4,5,8 and 10)

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