Suffocation (US)

Suffocation (US)
Genre(s)
Brutal Technical Death Metal
Lyrical theme(s)
Death, Religion, Mankind, Society
Origin Formed in Current label Status
United States of America (Long Island, New York) 1990 Nuclear Blast Records Active
Current line-up
Frank Mullen - Vocals (1990-)
Terrance Hobbs - Guitar (1990-) (Criminal Element)
Guy Marchais - Guitar (2002-) (Internal Bleeding, Pyrexia)
Derek Boyer - Bass (2004-) (Criminal Element, Decrepit Birth, Deprecated , Dying Fetus, Vital Remains)
Mike Smith - Drums (1990-1994, 2002-) (Psychometry)
Former/past member(s)
Guitars:
Doug Cerrito (1990-1998) (Hate Eternal, Welt, Day of Doom)

Bass:
Josh Barohn (1990-1993) (Autopsy, Doomed (US), The Henchmen, Iron Lung)
Chris Richards (1993-1998) (Sorrow (US))

Drums:
Doug Bohn (1994-1997) (Social Disease (US), Iron Lung, Welt)
Dave Culross (1997-1998) (Malevolent Creation, Disgorged (US), Gorgasm (US), HatePlow, Incantation, Malebolgia)
Additional notes
Suffocation are widely considered as pioneers of brutal and technical death metal.

The band split up after "Despise The Sun" and reformed in 2002 with some line-up changes. Doug Cerrito was asked to join when the band reformed, but apparently he wasn't interested.

"Human Waste" was the first CD ever released on Relapse Records. Though, they aren't the first band released on the label (they first released a bunch of 7" singles), it is the first printed and distributed CD by Relapse.

Birth dates:
Frank Mullen (January 1970)
Terrance Hobbs (April 1970)
Mike Smith (July 1970)
Guy Marchais (May 28, 1969)
Dave Culross (March 9, 1974)
Kevin Talley (21st May 1979, San Antonio, Texas, USA)
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RhapsodyRulesJuly 17th, 2002
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Discography


Reincremated Demo, 1990[1 review, 90%]
Human Waste EP, 1991[8 reviews, average 83%]
Effigy of the Forgotten Full-length, 1991[11 reviews, average 93%]
Breeding the Spawn Full-length, 1993[7 reviews, average 88%]
Live Death Split, 1994
Pierced from Within Full-length, 1995[13 reviews, average 89%]
Despise the Sun EP, 1998[7 reviews, average 85%]
Surgery of Impalement Single, 2004[1 review, 98%]
Souls to Deny Full-length, 2004[10 reviews, average 84%]
The Close of a Chapter Live album, 2005[2 reviews, average 93%]
Suffocation Full-length, 2006[14 reviews, average 82%]
The Best of Suffocation Best of/Compilation, 2008[1 review, 90%]
Blood Oath Full-length, 2009[8 reviews, average 83%]
The Close of a Chapter: Live in Quebec City Live album, 2009


Links

Official
Suffocation @ Facebook
Derek Boyer@Myspace
Official Forum
Official Homepage
Suffocation @ MySpace
Guy Marchais @ Myspace
Suffocation @ bebo

Labels
Suffocation at Relapse
Nuclear Blast USA artist's page
Roadrunner Records artist's page

Official merchandise
Night of the Vinyl Dead
Osmose Productions
Century Media Distribution
Suffocation Official Merch
Itchy Suffocation
Suffocation@JSR Direct
Suffocation @ Razamataz
Abyss Records
ROCKWORLDEAST - Suffocation Merchandise
Suffocation @ t-shirtzone
Suffocation @ No Compromise

Fan site
Suffocation @ Purevolume

Tablatures
Suffocation @ metaltabs.com
Suffocation @ mysongbook
Suffocation @ AZChords
Suffocation @ RiversOfGore
Suffocation @ ultimate-guitar
Suffocation @ 911tabs
Suffocation @ moretabs


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