SUICIDE SILENCE Frontman: 'I Just Want To Be Known As A Badass Heavy Metal Band'

The Scream Queen recently conducted an interview with vocalist Mitch Lucker of California deathcore masters SUICIDE SILENCE. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

The Scream Queen: You guys are working on a new album... Could you tell me some details about what's going on with that?

Mitch: Yeah. Well, we don't know who's going to produce it. I mean, we don't even have a name for the title of the album yet. But we have songs written. It's going to be another brutal-ass fuckin' SUICIDE SILENCE record. I mean, this one's going to be definitely the hookiest, catchiest of the three that we've done. This one we're really going to push to a whole new... like, take heavy metal, this form of heavy metal, further than anyone's ever taken it, just because all everyone's heads are at right now. It's moreso in the writing process and then having guest vocalists that can actually sing, like in harmonies, just doing all of this crazy stuff. We always do stuff that I know other bands are afraid to do and we're just going to do a whole bunch of that again on this record and just make it that much more badass than everyone else's because we're not afraid to do anything, like making music.

The Scream Queen: When you film the DVD, what is it that you want to translate from the stage to your fans' TV when they watch it?

Mitch: Just the violence that is our live show and on this tour. Like I said, tonight we weren't able to use any of our production because the stage is so small. But at these venues the stage is massive and we're going to have (counts) 3, 6, 9... 12 guitar cabs. But, just being able to do the full thing and have it captured on film, it's just going to be like, "Holy fuck! Look at that!" I remembered seeing pictures of PANTERA's backline, when you watch the "Cowboys From Hell" DVDs, and you're just like, "Oh my God, look at all of those cabs!" And me being that young and seeing that on my TV, where it's like, "Holy shit! Like, that's a concert!! There's like a-hundred speakers behind him!" And then being able to be in those shoes and like give that to someone who was my age and have them be like, "Holy fuck! That's badass!" And that's how I felt about PANTERA when I was that little. And if kids are that young and are feeling that way about our band now, then that's amazing. You know, that's big shoes to fill, big people to follow; we're just following in their [PANTERA's] footsteps.

The Scream Queen: How do you want SUICIDE SILENCE to be remembered decades from now?

Mitch: I just want to be known as a badass heavy metal band that put on a badass live show. Like, that's it. Think about anytime people have seen SLIPKNOT or like, PANTERA, or even like KORN, it's like, "Oh, that band was badass! And that show was badass!" It's not just like, "Oh, they sound good on CD, but their shows kind of suck." Or "The show's good, but they suck on CD. I want the whole package, badass metal band, badass live show, badass CD's." I just want to be a badass metal band! (laughs)

Read the entire interview from The Scream Queen.