Band: Suicide Silence
Title: The Black Crown
Label: Century Media Records
Distribution: EMI
Release date: 18/07/2011
Review: CD

I did miss this Californian band’s self-called 2005-mini-album, yet I was pretty enthusiastic with The Cleansing (Century Media, February 2008). I could enjoy 2009’s No Time To Bleed as well, yet this third full length, The Black Crown, is without any doubt the ultimate Suicide Silence release to date!

The Black Crown is alchemy, machinery, orchestration, creativity and experiment, it is both old school and modernism, it is organic and industrialised at the same time. Interspersed with perfectly written, composed and performed changes in melody, tempo, structure and atmosphere, built upon so many (hidden and clear) layers of evidences and un-expectations, focussing on separated details (both instrumental and vocal) which are completed into a fierce totality, Art covered in a concrete / metal construction, ultra-heaviness within subtle creations of daring and enduring grotesquery. It’s that simple, it’s that difficult as well, mind-blowing excellence beyond imagination.

Produced by Steve Evetts (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Incantation, Every Time I Die, Sepultura etc.) and mixed by Zeuss (Kingdom Of Sorrow, Chimaira, Hatebreed, …).

88/100

Ivan Tibos.