Suicide Silence boasted a fairly confident attitude about its radical stylistic changes made to its music on Suicide Silence pretty often before the album's release, though first week sales were down nearly 70% from the band's last effort, and the band's lowest first-week sales in history
In his first interview since the numbers have been made public, Suicide Silence frontman Eddie Hermida told Metal Frenzy that the album was something the band had to do, instead of just coasting off past albums.
“This is the record that we were born to make as a band. Everything that has ever led up to this very moment… I was born to create that record. I was born to sound exactly like I sound on that record. I was born to take all the flak. I was born to understand and grow from what happened on this record.”
“This record was 100% the culmination of how hiding and making yourself that little fly on the wall, as opposed to standing firm and being who you’re supposed to be, it can kill you inside. It can make you feel like you’re not worth anything. Even if you sell 16,000 records and you end up with No. 13 on the Top 200 Billboard list, you can still feel empty inside if you’re not following your heart 100%.”
Hermida added:
“If people don’t like it then I succeeded even more because I’m learning from my mistakes I guess… even though it’s not a mistake. It was meant to be the way it is."
Hermida also says that every "seems to be crumbling to pieces, and that is exactly what is going to make me go harder, and push harder, and just become a better musician," and he couldn't be happier with the situation. So I guess we'll see what happens with the band's future direction.
Do you forsee them returning to their old sound? Or do you think Suicide Silence is a band that will continue to experiment?
