Suicide Silencen Eddie Hermida: ”Tyylin muutos oli ainut vaihtoehtomme”

Yhdysvaltalainen Suicide Silence julkaisee helmikuun 24. päivä seuraavan yhtyeen omaa nimeä kantavan albuminsa Nuclear Blastin kautta. Yhtye julkaisi hiljattain albumiltaan uuden ”Doris” -nimisen kappaleen saaden samalla niskaansa paljon negatiivisia kommentteja faneiltaan uudesta musiikillisesta suuntauksestaan. Nyt yhtyeen laulaja Eddie Hermida on antanut haastattelun Metal Wanille, jossa on avannut hieman lisää yhtyeen päätöksestä vaihtaa tyyliään. Eddien mukaan yhtye oli musiikillisesti umpikujassa vanhan saundinsa kanssa ja jatkaminen deathcoren parissa olisi todennäköisesti tarkoittanut yhtyeen hajoamista. Voit lukea lisää aiheesta tästä:

“I think that the big issue with the deathcore fans is that they’re so trained to listen to really, really polished music, really, really sterile music…”

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“The fact is, A: The music industry is suffering—it’s a really known fact. CD sales just don’t happen anymore. People can download the music for free wherever they can find it if they are willing enough to look.

Or they just can stream it from some streaming service they have on their phone. And while streaming services are forking over some of their profits, they’re not really giving musicians their due take, you know what I mean? It’s not a very fair world.

So us musicians, we just don’t have the resources to spend a $100,000 on a record. Those days are long gone. The days of people actually going out and purchasing music because that was the only way of finding music—they’re gone now. It’s become so easy that it makes it difficult for us as musicians to express ourselves in a way that isn’t quantized and replaced by cheap sounds.

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Now that being said I’m not trying to throw shade on any recording methods. I think that if you have something to express and the only way you see fit is to do it in this manner, that’s cool. But you have to, as a musician, get to a point where the replaced sounds and reamped guitars and solid state amplifiers and punched-in vocals just don’t really hit the mark anymore.

The biggest thing is when we stepped into the studio to record this record is we wanted to create real sounds. And that reality and that power that comes with true noise, it isn’t something that this fanbase is trained for. It’s not something they’re used to.

So obviously the reaction is going to be very odd and off-putting, it’s not going to be something that people are going to listen to right away and get. We knew that going in, we expected that. So the reaction for us isn’t really out of pocket. It’s pretty much exactly what we wanted—if anything it’s a little bit more than we expected, and that’s a beautiful thing.”

Kysyttäessä Eddielta mikä sai yhtyeen muuttamaan tyyliään vastasi mies seuraavaa:

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“When it comes down to it this was the record where we felt like if we made any decision based on ‘we should keep this traditional,’ ‘we should totally seek approval of fans’—just by doing something that we are used to doing—it would have been a regression in ourselves.

It would have been something based in fear and that’s something that we wanted to avoid. It was something we knew that if we sat on our hinds at all that this band would fall apart. It’s not what we’re here to do, we’re here to challenge ourselves every single day—and by ourselves, I also mean our fans. So that’s what we’re here to do. We’re here to awaken ears, we’re hear to awaken minds.”