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COMMIT SUICIDE

synthetics

Willowtip
[WT-026]
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Description

Commit Suicide have absolutely reinvented themselves. While their debut album for Willowtip, Human Larvae [Earthly Cleansing] caused a huge stir in the metal community, was regarded as one of 2002's best releases, and was no slouch in terms of infectious songwriting and in maintaining infinite intensity, it is on 2004's Synthetics that they've truly transcended the often restrictive confines of the overpolluted "deathgrind" subgenre. Armed with jumping jackrabbit fretboard contractions, asymmetric percussion concussions, and deep-seeded vocal punctuations, Synthetics showcases a reborn Commit Suicide engaged in the most rigorous technical death metal workout around. This ain't no vintage Napalm Death or Terrorizer; Commit Suicide is lock and loaded into a songwriting regimen as fluid and clever as pioneering death metal acts Suffocation and Gorguts. Engineered in Rochester, NY by Doug White (Kalibas, Sulaco, Lethargy), Synthetics boasts a recording quality so pristine and rarely seen in todays world of overtriggered drums and vocal driven metal recordings. The instrumental skills aren't the only aspects of the band's sound that have been refined. In terms of arrangement ideas, the band is increasingly progressive, throwing in unexpected left turns and long-winded guitar passages that seamlessly interlace with drum patterns so erratic they'll make your wristwatch do backflips. This ain't no clip-on tie, folks. It comes down to this: if you're a fan of thinking man's death metal that pushes boundries and *don't* buy this record, you might has well take the advice of the band name.


Reviews

Digital Metal

I think most death metal fans are in agreement that originality in death metal waved bye-bye a long time ago, so expecting truly innovative death nowadays, even on a forward thinking band finding machine like Willowtip is a tall order. So when a band does death metal, they have to ensure that it is done ever so well, if not perfectly to rise above the seething pack. Commit Suicide does...Read More

Aversionline

10 new tracks of ripping death metal from Commit Suicide, with a technical edge, but never shedding its sheer brutality - making for lots of quick changes and a slew of riffs that are definitely more complicated than might be apparent from a base level listen to the tracks. "Resonance" opens with a significantly slower and eerily melodic/dissonant passage and eventually ends up getting a bit...Read More

Bushmado

I'm not even sure where to start with this album. Hell, I'm not sure where to start with this band! And by this, I do mean positive things. If someone asked me a band that can represent what I like about extreme music, I'd most likely say Commit Suicide. As you already know, and if you don't-you should, C.S. plays some Grindcore with guttural vocals, blistering guitars, and possibly the best...Read More

Metal Review

With two releases already out on Willowtip, including a split with Misery Index, it seems that Pittsburgh's Commit Suicide have found themselves a comfortable home. Already garnering plenty of praise for their crazy and technical ways, Synthetics will do nothing but solidify the band's reputation by not only pushing the envelope, but completely tearing it apart and eating it. And...Read More

Into Obscurity

Commit Suicide garnered themselves plenty of praise with their previous full length album and split EP with Misery Index. A lot of magazines and fans alike praised them for being an incredible deathgrind band. And I'm sure if they had continued in this direction, they would've only gotten better. But, like the Beatles did almost forty years early, the group paid no attention to the accolades...Read More

Commit Suicide - Synthetics
Check out tracks on our Bandcamp site.


Track List

1. Earthly Cleansing
2. Last Of Life
3. Resonance MP3
4. Transient
5. Synthetics MP3
6. Bastard Creature/Harmonic Skepticism
7. Spore
8. Post Human Future
9. Eternal Elegy
10. Evolve