- Suffocation (band)( Suffocation )【 8 albums 73 lyrics 】
- Suffocation is an American technical death metal band formed in 1988 in Centereach, New York. The band consists of vocalist Frank Mullen, lead guitarist Terrance Hobbs, bassist Derek Boyer, rhythm guitarist Charlie Errigo, and drummer Eric Morotti. Suffocation rose to prominence of death metal and created a blueprint for the genre for the 1990s with their 1991 debut album Effigy of the Forgotten, and have released seven studio albums since formation. The band's raw death metal style uses growled vocals with a downtuned guitar sound, fast and complex guitar riffs and drumming, open chord notes, breakdowns, and a sophisticated sense of songwriting.
Musical style and legacy
Suffocation's death metal style is influenced by grindcore. The band uses 'outrageously guttural vocals with a bottom-heavy guitar foundation, blistering speed, unparalleled brutality and sophisticated sense of songwriting, complex time changes and lead and rhythm guitar acrobatics' and frequent breakdowns.
With their debut album, Effigy of the Forgotten, Suffocation rose to prominence of death metal and created a blueprint for the genre for the 1990s, retaining their style after the reunion in 2003. Decibel Magazine stated: 'Effigy of the Forgotten was a benchmark for extreme music, as it sacrificed neither virtuosity or brutality, becoming a signpost for thousands who were still contemplating how to incorporate scalar runs, rapid-fire palm-muting and hummingbird-wing-quick picking into riffs, while opening up rhythmic dimensions and the scope of the blast beat.'
Blabbermouth.net described Suffocation as 'American death metal's most consistent and punishing standard-bearers' and their style as 'brutal death metal'. According to AllMusic, Mullen is one of the best vocalists in death metal. Decibel Magazine stated: 'One of Suffocation’s trademarks, breakdowns, has spawned an entire metal subgenre: deathcore.' Suffocation is one of the pioneers of technical death metal.
Members
Current
Frank Mullen – vocals (1988–1998, 2003–present)[note A]
Terrance Hobbs – lead guitar (1988–1998, 2003–present)
Derek Boyer – bass (2004–present)
Charlie Errigo – rhythm guitar (2016–present)
Eric Morotti – drums (2016–present)
Former
Mike Smith – drums (1988–1994, 2003–2012)
Josh Barohn – bass (1988–1991, 2003–2004)
Guy Marchais – rhythm guitar (1988, 2003–2016)
Doug Cerrito – rhythm guitar (1988–1998)
Chris Richards – bass (1991–1998)
Doug Bohn – drums (1994–1996)
Dave Culross – drums (1996–1998, 2012–2014)
Kevin Talley – drums (2014–2016)
Live musicians
Bill Robinson – vocals (2012)
John Gallagher – vocals (2013)
Ricky Myers – vocals (2014–2016)
Kevin Muller – vocals (2017–present) - Sorted by ＞ Sorted by album (Time) Sorted by song name (Characters) Sorted by other
- Album name Release Date Song
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...Of the Dark Light
2017
1.Return to the Abyss
2....Of the Dark Light
3.The Violation
4.Your Last Breaths5.Clarity Through Deprivation
6.Caught Between Two Worlds
7.The Warmth Within the Dark -
Pinnacle of Bedlam
2013-04
1.Cycles of Suffering
2.Purgatorial Punishment
3.Eminent Wrath
4.As Grace Descends
5.Sullen Days6.Pinnacle of Bedlam
7.My Demise
8.Inversion
9.Rapture of Revocation -
Blood Oath
2009-07
1.Blood Oath
2.Dismal Dream
3.Pray For Forgiveness
4.Images Of Purgatory
5.Cataclysmic Purification6.Mental Hemorrhage
7.Come Hell Or High Priest
8.Undeserving
9.Provoking The Disturbed
10.Marital Decimation -
Souls To Deny
2004
1.Deceit
2.Surgery of impalement
3.Subconsciously enslaved
4.Immortally condemned5.To Weep Once More
6.Souls to Deny
7.Demise of the Clone
8.Tomes of Acrimony -
Pierced From Within
1995
1.Brood of Hatred
2.Depths Of Depravity
3.Pierced From Within
4.Suspended in Tribulation
5.Synthetically Revived6.The Invoking
7.Thrones of Blood
8.Torn into Enthrallment
9.Breeding The Spawn -
Breeding The Spawn
1993
1.Anomalistic Offerings
2.Beginning Of Sorrow
3.Breeding The Spawn
4.Epitaph Of The Credulous5.Ignorent Deprivation
6.Marital Decimation
7.Ornaments Of Decrepancy
8.Prelude To Repulsion -
Effigy Of The Forgotten
1991
1.Effigy Of The Forgotten
2.Habitual Infamy
3.Infecting The Crypts
4.Involuntary Slaughter
5.Jesus Wept6.Liege Of Inveracity
7.Mass Obliteration
8.Reincremation
9.Seeds Of The Suffering -
Miscellaneous
1.Abomination Reborn
2.Catatonia
3.Creed Of The Infidel
4.Funeral Inception
5.Regret
6.Entrails Of You
7.Translucent Patterns Of Delirium8.Bind Torture Kill
9.Redemption
10.The End Of Ends
11.Reincremation (Demo)
12.Misconcieved
13.Cataclystic Putrification
【Correction of errors in the album information】