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Despise the Sun

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"Despise the Sun" of 1998 is as good, second for second, as "Pierced from Within". This five song EP doesn't have a weak moment in it and is produced much like the prior effort by the master of all Death Metal production, Scott Burns. (Okay, the bass end is a little too heavy.) Starting off with the groove heavy "Funeral Inception", Dave Culross (Malevolent Creation, great drummer) drives the song with his super consistent double bass and great feel. But no Suffocation album would be complete without Doug Cerrito and Terrance Hobbs, one of the best guitar duos in metal history alongside Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, Gary Holt and Rick Hunolt. The riffs are as clever and ever changing as the minute counter on the play button of your CD player.

The tempos most go between the fast double time thrashing and medium paced blast beats but there are a few slower groove heavy parts ("Catatonia") with a little Hardcore flavor (like they're summoning the ghost of the Cro-mags). The bass is kinda twangy and mixed a little lower than most bands would go, but I think it only adds to the character of the overall sound. Frank Mullen's low lingering growl keeps the entire album together.

It is short but is as good as "Pierced" time wise, so it definitely is worth picking up. Too bad they didn't keep Dave Culross, and too bad they didn't stay together during what looks in retrospect to be their creative peak. A quality album recommended to every Suffocation fan and every discerning Death Metal listener.

After hearing this album, I had to purchase all of the other Suffocation recordings to see how they compare. And frankly, I didn't need to look any further than this e.p. These 5 songs have been stuck in my head for weeks. Amazing production, technicality, and songwriting. You need this!

The fact that so many people consider this Suffocation's best says a lot about the mentality of your average death metal fan. Pierced from Within is, without question, one of the most musically accomplished death metal albums ever made. Rhythmically complex, but also tonally sophisticated, with a use of dissonance and harmonic sensibility that I have never heard elsewhere in death metal. And beyond that, the songs retained a visceral power and immediacy that almost all technical death metal bands lose. You can listen to the album 30 times and still discover new things.

For Suffocation to turn around and write this is a complete disgrace. It's nothing but generic death metal, with simple structures and riffs designed only to be catchy and brutal. Sure, it has a huge and intense sound, but that's all it has. Sadly, it seems that most Suffocation fans never heard more than that in Pierced from Within either.

Its quite hard to pick a favorite album between "pierce from within" and "despise the sun" and i will never realy know my real answer as a favorite album but i love both of them alot.Althought "despise the sun" is a short album? It fullfills my soul with beautifull and talent deathmetal that is very powerfull and i hold it most dearly. Everything from traditional and powerfull deathmetal and very essential, i might add.

If you love Pure, traditional, no frills or B.S. Death metal......Suffocation is the band for you. This EP is their best music.....i have all of their albums and Despise the sun comes of as the cleanest and most brutal of all their music. All of their albums are good, but if i only could keep one...it would be this one. The vocals are perfect gutteral vocals....not unrealistic harmonized(Bear being gutted), or annoying black metal shreaking. The vocals are the way death metal are supposed to be. The guitars shred with great riffs that are not boring, and make you(force you) to bang your head. They dont play the same riff that sounds like a puddle of mud for 2 minutes straight, nor are they so technical(dillinger escape plan), that it sounds like mess and where there is no harmony or order.....(a note on that) Before you can break the rules of music, You have to know them first...alot of these bands try to be so technical that it kills the enjoyability of the music.Suffocation is right on. They rule, this is their best CD. Take the word of someone who listens to every type of metal and punk out there, from street punk to goregrind to hardcore to crustcore to power and speed metal. This is a must buy. Enjoy.

The purveyor's of Extreme music are back with, sadly, their last album. Actually this is an e.p., but it still feels like a loss. Suffocation has always meant business wether it was shoving gutteral Death Metal vocals down your throat, or crussing your rib cage with an assault of double-bass drums and blastbeats enough to level the entire city of New York City. This is Suffocation which also means it's well worth your money. I thought this was their best one to date. It's very technical and very brutal. Not to mention the sample in the beginning of "Funeral Inception" is just worth the cd itself.

Suffocation is one of the brutalist metal acts around. If you don't believe me buy this CD. This is death metal for true death metal heads. I'm not going to say much more because the music will speak for itself when you hear it.
You won't be disappointed with this one.

The cd starts of with Funeral Inception(the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didnt exist).Funeral Inception is probably the most intence song.All the songs are amazing.They Re-do Catatonia witch is one of the best Suffocation songs.Suffocation seem to improve with each cd.Suffocation had a lot of life left it's a shame they had to throw away this much talent away.Doug Cerrito and Terrance Hobbs are the greatest guitarist in history.

HAIL SUFFOCATION,the greatest band in history.Get back to gether,we need atleast one more full length.

his EP is simply one of the best and most musically uncompromising death metal efforts from any band. Suffocation significantly raises the bar and delivers an effort that should be on any knowledgable fan's top 10 list. Originally released on a micro-label in 1998, the good folks at Relapse reissued this in 2002. With albums this good, it never ceases to remind me of how stupid Roadrunner was to get rid of many (if not all) of their death metal artists in order to make room for such 'quality' bands as Nickelback, Slipknot, and Cradle of Filth.

Same as everyone else has said. Great to hear they are back together. This CD holds up great even though it's a few years old. A must in your death metal collection.