Suicide Silence – No Time To Bleed Reviewed

The teaser videos, the little puzzle on the website, the merch. The anticipation for the new Suicide Silence album has been increasing more and more lately. On 4/20, the band released the track “Lifted” on their myspace. On 6/1, they did the same with “Wake Up”.

I pre-ordered my copy of the album through cmdistro.com. They told me it would ship on 6/23, a full week before the album officially releases. I figured that even with a few days shipping I’d still be able to get it early. Yesterday, it arrived. I tore open the packaging and plugged it in to give it a complete listen.

Here’s the tracklist:
  1.  Wake Up (3:48)
  2.  Lifted (4:08)
  3.  Smoke (3:08)
  4.  Something Invisible (2:57)
  5.  No Time To Bleed (2:22)
  6.  Suffer (3:56)
  7.  …and Then She Bled (3:55)
  8.  Wasted (3:13)
  9.  Your Creations (3:59)
10.  Genocide (2:17)
11.  Disengage (4:04)

Runtime 37:47

The first couple tracks, Wake Up and Lifted, are both heavy as hell, but I’m assuming you’ve all heard these already. Track 3, Smoke, starts out with this horror movie sounding effect, which is sure to shatter your eardrums if you turn it up too loud. A little drumming, and then the song starts. It’s loud, it’s angry, and it’ll throw you all over the place.

Right now, my favorite track on the album is No Time To Bleed, by far. This song is packed with so much brutality it’s insane. Some of the lyrics are “AND THIS IS NOT A CHURCH, AND I DO NOT PREACH, AND I HAVE NO TIME TO BLEED”. About 1:45 into the song is what I love so much about it. This breakdown is so immense and loud it’s hard to fight back the desire to destroy something whenever I listen to it.

Track 7, …and Then She Bled, is a bit of an interlude. This track has no vocals, overlaying what sounds like a 911 call where a woman is getting murdered. Ironically, this is probably one of the more relaxed tracks on the album. Wasted has one of my favorite ways to start a metal song; a loud blast from a drum and then the whole band starts in with all the grindcore rage that they do.

Overall, this album is an easy 5/5 from me. The vocals on this album have a bit of a different sound to them, but overall it definitely still has that brutal unique sound that only Suicide Silence seems to have. I think back to The Cleansing, with tracks like Unanswered, The Diseased, and In A Photograph, and I realize that they don’t really have directly comparable tracks. Some may dislike this, but personally I love it. The whole album is fresh, I don’t feel like I’m listening to The Cleansing, and that’s definitely a good thing.