SUICIDE SILENCE Guitarist Says Next Album Will Be 'Heavy' And 'Catchy As Hell'

November 6, 2010

Brendan Crabb of Australia's Loud magazine recently conducted an interview with guitarist Mark Heylmun of California deathcore masters SUICIDE SILENCE. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

On the commercial success of the band's latest album, "No Time To Bleed":

"We were surprised at the success. Even charting at No. 90 — something was ridiculous for the first album. Then with the new record we did well in the first week, it was crazy."

On whether they will be aiming to again exponentially increase their commercial success with album number three:

"We care, [but] it's not like the main worry in our heads, how many records we're going to sell. The industry the world over, it's going to hell right now. Downloading screws everything up, but some people don't have the money in these screwed up times to buy music. How else will they get their music, especially in these hard times? They reckon whatever you sell in the first week in the States is tripled by illegal downloads. It sucks, but you can't stop it."

On SUICIDE SILENCE's plans for their next full-length record:

"We've been working on it all year. We went to a cabin in the mountains and wrote a bunch of crazy stuff. We've got a bunch of new stuff and we'll be looking to record it early next year. The record should be out by summertime. It's just going to be heavy as hell, catchy as hell, [filled with] good live songs that are fun to play live and with more riffage. We try not to go by the book and do fun stuff we can jam on."

On being lumped in the "deathcore" category:

"[Deathcore], it is what it is. Whatever you want to call it, it's just a new thing that somebody thought of. I don't think anyone [in the band] thinks of it as deathcore, or any other bands other than some younger bands [use it either], it's just a media label and we're just bands playing music. We just accept it and do what we want to do anyway. I don't really get it. The first time I heard anyone say it was at a show a long time ago, like 2005. It was funny."

Read the entire interview from Loud magazine.

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