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SUICIDE SILENCE Bassist MIKE BODKINS Comments On 'Deathcore' Tag

September 10, 2008

MetalSucks conducted an interview with SUICIDE SILENCE bassist Mike Bodkins at the New York stop of the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival tour. An excerpt from the chat can be found below.

MetalSucks: You guys obviously been stuck with the whole "deathcore" tag. How do you feel about that? Does it drive you up the fucking wall, or do you not care?

Bodkins: Call us what you want. We don't really consider ourselves deathcore. We don't want to hold ourselves to one style of anything. I mean there are so many different inputs in the band. For instance, [Chris] Garza, the guitar player, and Alex [Lopez], the drummer, nu metal is their thing. They're all about the nu metal stuff. I'm sure you can hear a little bit of the nu metal in some riffs. Then you got Mark and me who are more straight metal roots, more death metal like CANNIBAL CORPSE and all that stuff. We're trying newer stuff with the album, it's pretty epic.

MetalSucks: So you got a new album coming out?

Bodkins: We've written half the album. We're shooting for [recording it] sometime early next year, have it out by early spring/summer. That's what we're really hoping for. We've been writing and have half of it done. It's looking really good and we're really excited about it.

MetalSucks: Do you feel like there is any kind of tonal shift or directional shift from the last album or just SUICIDE SILENCE being epic?

Bodkins: It's not the same SUICIDE SILENCE but it is. You can tell it's us, but it's got a different vibe to it. It's a little more up pace, kind of epic. There are songs that sound like there are actual keys in it, weird guitar effects and shit.

Read the entire interview at MetalSucks.

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