Review Summary: Sometimes a band needs to stop saying "You can't stop me" and start saying "It's timme to part ways". Upon losing Mitch Lucker and Gaining Eddie, and then putting out this terrible album, this is one of those times.
This is a tough album to review. This album is not at all ground breaking or revolutionary, or even something new for the death core band Suicide Silence. The hardest part is trying not to voice a heavy opinion on the new vocalist Eddie Hermida. Everywhere that has something related to Suicide Silence has the argument of who is better: Mitch Lucker or Eddie Hermida. To get this opinion out of the way: Eddie Hermida belongs in All Shall Perish, not Suicide Silence. Suicide Silence has a past of using ear piercing high screams, as well as deep and guttural lows. Eddie is not meant for lows. It is evident in the album’s title track that lows just aren’t his thing. All Shall Perish is much better for Eddie, and he should never have left. Suicide Silence should have left the band where it was, called it quits, and did a new thing. Suicide Silence just isn’t Suicide Silence without Mitch Lucker.
For those who are unfamiliar with Suicide Silence, the band is a death core band fronted by Eddie Hermida (Mitch Lucker was the past vocalist before his passing) and has gotten mixed criticisms from listeners and critics alike. People can argue that their death core sound is nothing new and is a wanna be White Chapel or Black Dahlia Murder, or something else that is ridicules and unrelated to Suicide Silence. Others would say the band is a collection of gods who have popularized the genre and made it even better than before they came along. In all actuality, both statements are false. They have some form of truth in their own way, but not entirely. Suicide Silence is a band that is generic, and not a direct wanna be of any specific band. The break downs and djenty music is nothing new. While in another sense Suicide Silence has appealed to a wider audience of listeners (Teenagers seem to like this band the most) and has an interesting sound in the rare song every now and then. They aren’t completely bad, but they aren’t completely good.
Suicide Silence was never the best band out there. They had their share of decent songs (Such as Wake Up and You Only Live Once) but they were never exactly an important band in the development of death core. There is a lot of buzz about Suicide Silence and how they are an amazing band. People have been saying that the new vocalist is golden for the success of the band. The album You Can’t Stop Me feels like it is just another All Shall Perish album that tries to be heavier. The album gets boring and repetitive. The title track was the only track that could keep my attention. The title track is rather catchy, having a hand full of great riffs and lyrics that mean something without trying to be too edgy.
Other releases off the album such as Cease To Exist feel bland and boring. For once I will actually agree that this is just a grown man screaming while there are loud instruments trying to tune him out. The songs lack any real artistic structure, which is forgivable because plenty of bands follow the verse chorus verse formula. All of these songs feel the same and just have nothing new to offer the genre, or the band all together. The album is boring, and where it has some really good high vocals, it doesn’t have the same lows that have been brought to the table in the past. The vocals become very predictable really fast, but the instruments become predictable even faster.
Although a lot has been said about how Eddie’s lows can’t even begin to be compared to Mitch’s, the song “Don’t Die” is one of the rare tracks on this EP that peaked my interest in terms of vocals, instruments and structure. The break downs on this song are decent, where as the other tracks have break downs that just don’t seem to fit. The only two songs I would suggest are Don’t die and You can’t stop me. Eddie is better off getting his old band back, because this album has shown all of us what the future of Suicide Silence is: bland, boring and dead.
