Suicide Silence - Suicide Silence (2017)

Suicide Silence is the eponymous fifth studio album by metal band Suicide Silence, released on February 24, 2017 by Nuclear Blast. The album is a notable departure from their signature deathcore musical style, pursuing a more 1990s influenced nu metal sound. Reviews for the album were mostly negative from fans and critics alike.

The album has received generally negative reviews. Among the most damning criticisms came from Joe Smith-Engelhardt of Exclaim!, who gave the album a 1/10 review, comparing it to "a garage band sloppily covering Korn and Deftones through a microphone they found in a dumpster". Rock Sound were also critical of the change in direction, claiming that the band had "shed the very thing that made them great", as were Metal Hammer, who found the band's decision "bewildering".

More positive feedback came from MetalSucks, who saw the album as "a weird art-metal album" comparable to Metallica's similarly controversial Lulu or St. Anger albums. While asserting that "Suicide Silence have never sounded this genuinely deranged", writer Axl Rosenberg summarized the record by saying that "I’m not sure that Suicide Silence is a great record, but it’s certainly a good one, and it took balls to make it". The lead single, "Doris", caused many Suicide Silence fan pages and deathcore fan pages to make memes regarding the "Teehee" in the song. This meme was popularized by Youtuber Jared Dines.

Track List:
01. Doris
02. Silence
03. Listen
04. Dying In A Red Room
05. Hold Me Up, Hold Me Down
06. Run
07. The Zero
08. Conformity
09. Don't Be Careful You Might Hurt Yourself