CD Review: Suffocation - Despise The Sun

“Despise The Sun” was released at a point in time where there didn’t seem to be much activity from Suffocation. It would be their last release before breaking up, then reforming to create “Souls To Deny”. “Souls To Deny” had perfect timing when it came out. All those underground metalcore and hardcore fans who were becoming increasingly angry with the rising popularity of melodic death metal inspired metalcore, the glut of generic, mediocre bands, and the highjacking of their prized genre by the former nu-metal crowd. “Souls To Deny” came out at exactly the right time.

The last thing done before “Souls To Deny” was this EP, “Despise The Sun”. It sees the band making song’s that sound like Suffocation, and re-recording an old song from their very first EP, “Human Waste”. The re-recorded song is great, but the rest of the material comes off as being whipped up quickly to keep the interest of Suffocation moving along, and as a result it doesn’t have as much depth as their previous groundbreaking albums.

6/10

Suffocation
Relepase Records