I can say it's a 2023 release on Nuclear Blast, and it's going to rip everybody's faces up. “We heard it and were like, ‘Wow, that's fucked up.' It's awesome. But there's something unique and new in there that is really cool,” he says. You know, we're sticking to the true, true roots of Suffocation. And I'm not saying we got a flute player or got clean vocals or synthesizer, none of that shit. It’s coming out real sick, all your typical Suffo slams and technical, thought-out stuff. “The new record is about three-quarters of the way done. The current incarnation used the pandemic downtime to work on a new album, Boyer adds, and it’s set to be released next year. So it's a matter of just getting everybody on the same page, on the same wavelength and tearing it up.” “And it does breathe new life into you as well. You know, when Charlie joined the band - he's younger and he's doing backflips, running around. “New blood and new energy are always so welcomed. The lineup, minus Myers, put out …Of the Dark Light in 2017. It currently consists of Boyer, Myers, longtime lead guitarist Terrance Hobbs, rhythm player Charlie Errigo and drummer Eric Morotti. The band has gone through several lineup changes through the years, including bringing in Ricky Myers after original vocalist Frank Mullen stepped away in 2019. There's more to it than just slam, slam, slam, but it's definitely slamming.” “We want to have dynamics, so when our slam comes, it's a big sight and a big buildup. We're trying to think things through,” he adds. “Well, I mean, it's going to be super-aggressive and well put-together - we're not trying to just do run-on sentences. Suffocation is teaming up with Atheist, Soreption and Contrarian for the Forces of Hostility tour, which stops in Denver on Wednesday, June 1, at the Roxy Theatre.Ĭhatting while Suffocation made its way to Chicago less than a week into the run, Boyer says the shows have been going great and promises that “we'll smash it” for anyone on the fence about coming out. It's gray and dismal, and so I think they just wrote with a really different vibe,” says Boyer, who joined Suffocation full-time in 2004, after the band officially reunited a year earlier. It just had something aggressive about being there that made their music the way it came out. Florida, it’s sunny, and these bands were playing fast, sick, evil, gory, whatever.
“New York being such a hardcore environment yielded hardcore music and aggressive rap, and the metal bands that were coming out in New York had a different hard edge. “You think that when Henry Ford built the first car and the Wright brothers built their first airplanes, they thought it would be going to this level of progression, you know?” he says with a chuckle.Ĭross-pollinating with New York City’s healthy hardcore scene at the time, Suffocation brought brutality to a new level and separated the burgeoning East Coast sound from the gore-drenched Florida bands that were rising to prominence out of Tampa. But the band, which has become synonymous with inventing “slams” and incorporating brutish breakdowns in the 1990s, holds the patent on a musical style that has since influenced and spawned numerous slam and deathcore outfits.Īfter thirty years, bassist Derek Boyer facetiously likens Suffocation’s impact on extreme music to that of history’s most notable transportation tycoons. The Industrial Revolution isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when listening to New York death-metal legends Suffocation.