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SUFFOKATE ME

 Monday, February 15th, 2010 at 2:00pm by

Some thoughts:

  1. Suffocation is far too legendary a band for anyone to use any variation on the word “suffocate” ever again. I don’t care how you spell it. Not helping: that Suffocation are still active, still awesome, and probably more talented than 99% of their death metal peers from any generation, ever.
  2. Why the fuck would you ever spell it “Suffokate?”
  3. Having the singer rise out of the water at the beginning of the video doesn’t look cool when you can blatantly see that he was never even fully underwater.
  4. If your ear gauges are so big I can stick my fist through them, they’re too big.
  5. If the most distinctive thing about your band is that I can stick my first through your singer’s ear gauges, you’re in trouble.

-AR

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  • Honeynutzz

    You sir have tiny baby fists.

    • Kevin

      He does look like a hooker with those earrings….

  • http://thenumberoftheblog.wordpress.com/ groverXIII

    I’m not even sure I could fit my dick through his ear gauges. (And if you’re wondering why my dick would be that close to this guy’s ears, well, remember, it’s not gay if you yell “SLAYYERRRR”.)

    I would expect a band called Suffokate to have a female singer at the very least. This is just terrible deathcore.

    • Hammer_Smashed_Hurtt

      ” Its not gay if you yell SLAAAYEER!!”

      Words to live by

      Win for you Mr Grover.!

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-John-Crispen/100000169530540 Jason John Crispen

      yeah we call ears stretched to the point of comical sizes “Dick Ears” as in big enough to let a dick through them.

  • http://www.theoppositionmachine.wordpress.com the opposition machine

    wiggerslam?

    • 20 eyes

      the best slam!

  • http://www.last.fm/user/M60Patton Patton

    That’s shit, nuff said.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ian-Wilmot/1177765489 Ian Wilmot

    the vocalist looks exactly like the guy from whitechapel
    only with huge gauges
    he also sounds almost the same
    i guess thats just how deathcore is
    except like 10 bands
    they all have the same image
    and sound exactly the same

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ian-Wilmot/1177765489 Ian Wilmot

      oh yeah
      also
      lyrics that have no substance and sound almost the same
      they almost always have something to do with sickness disease plague ect.

      • russell

        I agree that they sound just like every other hardcore metal band – But they do put on a good show.

        They have great stage presence. If you think suffocation is used a lot look at the word dead. Bury your dead, through the eyes of the dead, dead to fall etc….

        Suffocation shouldn’t be compared with this band in any way. They are on a completely other level.

    • DustintheWind

      total Whitechapel rip-off, in almost every way, and i actually like some of Whitechapel’s songs, but this fuckin sucks

      • DomDom

        How can they be a Whitechapel ripoff when they were around before Whitechapel?

  • John

    Does this band even need to exist?

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Anthony-Showalter/100000592087843 Anthony Showalter

      Not at all, there’s no point.

  • rancidcorpse

    FUCK YOU suffokate is awesome so is suffocation who gives a shit

    • stu1

      They’re awful. Just totally generic, overdone, end of the run deathcore. Nothing stands out about this band at all. Their songs aren’t good, they’re not especially good players, their life show is no better than 75 other bands who sound just like them.

  • sabbathfan

    This is fucking horrible.

  • Horeshine

    Lmao, that shit in his ears are most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen. He looks like a Disney character or something!

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-John-Crispen/100000169530540 Jason John Crispen

      the most ridiculous part is when the takes the plugs out his ears hang there like a post-gang bang record porn chick’s naughty bits

      • Peter Griffin

        why anyone would do that to their ears is beyond me

  • Patrick

    Seen them live before and didn’t care for them at all.

  • Olinville

    The most probable reason they named the band “SUFFOKATE” is because they were too busy gauging the piss outta their ears and writing shitty, overdone music to have ever heard “SUFFOCATION”. Plus anybody that spells band names this way are secretly awaiting a fucking Limp Bizkit come back. Get those knee pads ready boys, Freddy may come to your town.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ian-Wilmot/1177765489 Ian Wilmot

      i think its cause they thought people might confuse them with suffocation
      so people might actually buy their music
      only to be horribly disappointed

      • Friend of

        Lol. These guys didnt name the band… my brother was in this band a long time ago he wrote the skies and pretty much a whole lot of the first album. everyone in this band is basically getting a free ride off alot of other peoples hard work. there all garbage. i dont expect this band to make it terribly far now being they are sounding generic as fuck, and there lead singer installed the gages so it would be easier for his boyfriend to face fuck him…

        • haha

          haha your brother whoever he is didn’t do shit. Know your facts before talking shit ;)

  • Lard

    Holy crap you could fit a Yugo through those holes,music sucks just one long breakdown of a song…

  • Alex_P

    They played with Dying Fetus/The Faceless. All I could say was “better than Beneath the Massacre”, who played after, and sucked hard. Also, fuck ear gauges. Actually making yourself intentionally and irreversibly uglier is definitely not metal.

    • stu1

      Totally disagree. Beneath the Massacre aren’t my favorite but are much better.

      • hellboar

        yea i saw this show too, and Beneath the Massacre’s guitarist is ridiculous.

        • stu1

          Yeah, that dude shreds. Technically, those dudes are really really solid.

          • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mathew-James-Saunders/1153389571 Mathew James Saunders

            One thing I’ve seemed to notice about him both times I’ve seen BTM live, he plays with his hood over his head and a hat on (I believe he fucks up if he looks around everywhere and isn’t constantly staring at the fret board.) Being as technically-proficient as they are I wouldn’t doubt it.

    • Milan

      Also saw them at this show, although I think BTM are awesome. but seriousely suffokate’s entire setlist was like one biiiiiiiiiiiiiig looooooooooooooong boooooooooooooooring breakdown. Seriously this band is the worst deathcore band ive ever heard. LEARN TO PLAY PAST THE THIRD FRET!!!

  • Natalie

    His ears look SO DUMB.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Josh-Eldridge/6238293 Josh Eldridge

    Suffokate? Maybe they REALLY hate Goldie Hawn’s daughter…

  • hellboar

    i saw these guys live with that recent Faceless/Dying Fetus show, was no doubt the least impressive act there. The little azn guitarist is funny to me, he’s so little and kinda looks like a girl.

    • Mel

      i saw that show too. and they were shit. singer was hopping around like an idiot. sounds like so much other crap that is already out there. shouldnt even be compared to suffocation.

  • Lordassenfroth

    these guys blow

  • Facebook User

    Wow, this is terrible. Frank Mullen would eat these little jobbers alive.

  • Fuck

    My only defense for this band is that I know the dudes personally, and most of them weren’t even in the band when the name “Suffokate” was formed. Ricky is a talented vocalist, and a really nice dude. Don’t care for run of the mill deathcore..but hey, that’s how it goes. This video though…fuck..so gay

    • stu1

      So the defense is, essentially, none of these guys have been in the band, that long. Is there just 1 dude in the band from the 1st time they were around?

      • Who

        No. But there was one before the 1st time they were around.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mathew-James-Saunders/1153389571 Mathew James Saunders

      Do you penetrate his ear lobes too? (I figured the band gets a lil’ slippy slip vaseline action on the road so maybe all of his friends do

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Trip-Cahouet/706361037 Trip Cahouet

    Ear gauges should not be wider than a butthole, unless you are Job For a Cowboy.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mathew-James-Saunders/1153389571 Mathew James Saunders

      or you like ear lobes that look like buttholes (you could make millions if you created a site for that)

  • Who

    Suggestions for band names : Iron Made It, Slip-not, Machine Hair, Hatebread, Queen’s Rich…

    Suffokate’s not so bad.

  • Isaac

    TOTALLY not a Whitechapel ripoff.
    *cough*

  • Fozzy Rorschach

    Saw these guys with All Shall Perish a little over a year ago.

    The music is pretty generic slam-core, and to be honest, the singer was pouting like a bitch because no one was as excited about their music as he was. Acted like a real prick, if you ask me.

    • Seth

      I saw them on that touring run as well, when they came through Georgia, and i agree with you 100% about the singer. At the show i was at he was a grade-A prick, very condescending to the crowd and even the sound guy. It was embarrassing to watch.

  • Sambo

    I have seen these guys 3 times and their stage presence and performance is great! Probably the heaviest band I have heard live. The singer is a nice guy and is not a prick, and the band don’t act like pricks live every time I have seen them. Personally this is one of the better deathcore bands around. I don’t care what you think about my opinion. I’m saying these guys are awesome!

    • stu1

      You don’t get out much, I guess.

      • Sambo

        Actually that’s true. I have wanted to attend many concerts but money is a major issue with me right now and it has been for the past couple years. My favorite concert to this day was In Flames and All That Remains.

    • daathsucks

      this HAS to be the singer of this band.

      Loser

      • Sambo

        My name is Sam.

        Idiot.

    • bubba t

      That’s like saying I had the best glass of spoiled milk this morning…still terrible no matter how good it is within its own category. I had hoped this genre was dying out…sadly not:(

  • Facebook User

    For fuck’s sake, they’re not called “gauges.”

    He has PLUGS of a certainly large GAUGE in his STRETCHED LOBES. Calling them “gauges” makes you sound like a bunch of stupid high school kids.

    Also, this band blows hard.

    • stu1

      Or you could say “He has gauged ears.”

      • TheHangingBrain

        Or he could say I have gauged ears as well, and this makes my balloon knot hurt. Fucking hat those fucking napkin rings that people put in their ears to be “different”. I guess having an earlobe that looks like a detached labia is pretty different…

        …also, detached labia sounds like a Cannibal Corpse song title.

  • Nick

    That was my exact reaction when I saw them live.

    on the other hand, I got to play a very fun game where I tried to guess where I tried to guess where their next bass drop would come in. It’s not that hard.

  • Bicro

    Saw these dudes live, spent the moments counting down til they stopped their awfulness.

    Seriously, they suck.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Zach-Gates/14209777 Zach Gates

    Original? No.

    Pretty good? Yeah.

    See ‘em headlining? No.

    Hang around to see ‘em on a tour? Yeah.

  • emetal

    that was painful to listen to, and hear. i have a headache now..
    give them a break though. they broke, son! hahahahah

  • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/46e389eb8b79606050d3d447431ff6ac?s=80 Nate

    These fuckers disgraced a Dying Fetus show i was at. They were ATTEMPTING to warm up with Dethklok riffs, and most of us ended up booing them off the stage.

    • Milan

      Yeah! They tried to play thunderhorse and he wasnt even playing it right.

  • Matty Taibs

    these guys were on tour with Dying fetus and The Faceless, i had to endure around 25 terrible breakdowns in 5-6 songs while the karate dojo was raging behind me, if Dying Fetus and The Faceless weren’t playing after i may have had to blow the venue up…

  • kngdeuce

    FUCK EVERYBODYY suffokate is better than dying fetus.

    • Bicro

      No.

    • bubba t

      bwahahahahaha! You sir, have made it to the top of my lsit for stupidest statements on a metal discussion board in 2010…I think you stand a pretty good chance of staying there to with a comment like that. Whew…almost pissed myself with utter amazement and laughter.

  • Ziltoid

    Whoa! A shitty deathcore band! I didn’t know those existed!

    Also, I’ve always wondered if those ear things hurt. They look so painful. Almost as painful as the music that people with them make.

    • SonOF

      What’s worse is what remains when these tards decide to take the plugs out. It’s like they have big, saggy vagina lips attached to the side of their heads. :/

    • Alex_P

      When my brother was 12, he wanted to get some ear plugs. He’s 14 now, and thanking my mom for stopping him, especially as he advances musically. He’s currently trying to get a proper, respectable band together and become a serious musician.

      This guy, however, will never be able to find a job. I would feel bad for him, except that I totally don’t.

    • Facebook User

      The level of pain depends on how fast/big you stretch ‘em. If you’re not an idiot and stretch slowly, your ears will stop feeling sore after a day or two.
      It sucks that big lobes have become somewhat synonymous with scene/deathcore kids. Mine are currently at 1″ and I promise I’ve got NOTHING in common with moshbrodude up there in the band photo.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Peter-Stockman/1172658628 Peter Stockman

    HAHAHAHAHA. BLOODDUSTER KILLS IT ALL.

  • Deutschmann3698

    What makes the singer more ridiculous is that he has a big-ass tattoo on his forehead

    http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2779/4079482661_cff4f4581c.jpg

  • evilfatguy

    His voice is br00dul as fuck, but IS IT BR00DUL ENUF????!??!
    This genre needs to die; it’s like the dance music of death metal.

  • Primateforever

    I like how mad everyone gets at bands like this. Calling them Job For A Cowboy/Whitechapel rip-offs when I’m sure you called JFAC and Whitechapel out for being rip offs of whatever sacred subgenre you thought was cool two years before you heard Entombment Of A Machine. Newsflash! Metal hasn’t been innovative since the early 80′s. Quit your fucking whining.

    • Piero

      So according to you, subgenres like death metal or black metal have not been innovative in any way ?

    • Alex_P

      You just aren’t looking hard enough. Innovation abounds, even if you don’t like it.
      These guys do rip off Whitechapel and early JFAC. I hate both of those.

      • Primateforever

        Not only did you both misread my comment, you both proved my point. First: both black and death metal started out in the ’80s…so, not only are you too inept to actually comprehend the things you read but you actually find no fault in trying to rebuke a factual statement. Second: Innovation does not abound and I am not defending the band that was the impetus for this thread. I’m pointing out the same simple-minded sheep mentality that most shunted, closed-off, ignorant metal fans display as a badge of courage against ‘the mainstream’.

        • bubba t

          Actually there is plenty of innovation, you jstu have to stop listening to deathcore to find it.

        • Milan

          yeah dude, theres been tons of innovation, you probably just arent very good at finding original bands.
          If you’re implying that Cynic didn’t seriously revolutionize metal, you’re obviously an idiot, and they were from the 90′s. and thats just one example

        • JesuFer

          metal is dead, man…huh, I feel like listening to Zoroaster right about now

  • the_dglgmut13

    Did you also LOL at elephant ears?

  • Who Gives A Damn

    1. Ear gauging is still a hip and happening trend? (shit always sucked)
    2. Typical sounding boring deathcore band
    3. Band name w/ a K? Why not put the last E in the name backwards too?
    4. Band sucks
    5. Why does a lot of Metal today suck and bands continue to rip eachother off in bad ways?

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/RIchard-Kulba/514264422 RIchard Kulba

      LMFAO, that was funny dude. You’re dead on, but there are maybe a few deathcore bands I like cuz they sound like themselves

    • Dom

      Band name with a K? Kreator want a word

  • Fong Chung

    I once sat through this shitty deathcore band once. Just to see Vital Remains, and my I dont know what was more painful. The dudes tranny earings, or the fact I had to sit through this shitty bands set.

  • Malacoda

    4 and 5 apply to Whitechapel also.

  • Ofthedead

    Suffokate is better then Dying Fetus? Speaking of mind fucks, I’ll bet your mom dresses you ass hole

  • Facebook User

    The singer looks so fucking ridiculous, he can invent a new kind of porn, ear gauging fistfuck!

  • http://www.last.fm/user/Ssjgokuxx dick johnson

    does the drummer have a popped collar? what the hell man…

  • SonOF

    This guys are fucking lame, but I can see tons of people (especially kids 21 and younger) thinking they are brootal as fuck. In fact, I can picture them playing the largish venue near my house (and actually packing a lot of people in), and kids with similar ear plugs spin-kicking the shit out of the place. So in short, these guys have the right sound for the right time, and may even make some money, despite having one of the shittier bands names I have heard, and the originality of a Dave Matthews cover band.

  • cerdom

    Do you guys all hate Impending Doom as well? I get this odd feeling if the article was written with a positive outlook the comments would reflect it. Personally I like this band and I don’t know what makes them shitty and unoriginal when plenty of other bands out there get praise for “not trying to invent anything new” or just “being brutal”. You guys are acting like this band is Disturbed or something. Who really gives a fuck if the singer looks like an idiot. It’s music not a fashion show.

    • http://reaper-x.deviantart.com/ Reaper-X

      Here’s the thing. The people that get praise for not trying to invent anything new get the praise they get because they know what it is they’re doing and they do it RIGHT. They actually try to make their work their own as opposed to following the exact blueprint.

      This band is generic, in the sense that they don’t try to make anything new, but they also don’t try to make anything GOOD either.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/RIchard-Kulba/514264422 RIchard Kulba

    SUFFOKATE…..more like….SMOKE-BREAK

    • Facebook User

      not with the singer. hes straight edge. it says so on his forehead

      • bubba t

        HAHAHAHA!!!

  • Adam

    There’s a whole lotta open string palm muting going on in this song.

  • Kelsey

    embarrassing excuse for a music video.
    and metal.

  • Nick

    They are more of a hardcore band than a deathcore band…

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Zachery-J-Littell/803975056 Zachery J. Littell

      you are fucking dumb

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Zach-Gates/14209777 Zach Gates

    After doing some more looking around, this song of theirs is pretty effing awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8bC9joH1tI

    Seriously. Give it a listen. It’s legit. Drop all pretenses and prejudices, ignore the overly long intro from Gummo and just listen. It’s a lot better than the song in this post.

  • Tim

    until your as successful as them stfu.

  • joe

    wow, i’m reading all these comments everyone is leaving and i just have to say that i’d like to see you make a deathcore band and get as big as them so quite talking all this shit and their shows are brootal, and oh big deal he has big guages. if your going to make fun of a band, make fun of bring me the horizon there shit horrible

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Zachery-J-Littell/803975056 Zachery J. Littell

    I love how the biggest concern on this page is how this dood looks with his ears. None of you are death you are all losers. Way to turn metal into a popularity contests with emphasis on good looks *thumbs up*

    blow me

  • Kyle

    do any of you fuckers even realize how long these guys have been around? damn near 8 years. they were crankin’ this shit out before most of you were even in highschool and before you even knew what deathcore was. and let’s not forget, “deathcore” is a newer genre to say the least. doesn’t matter how many tattoos the dude has or how big his gauges are. listen to his voice – i bet you can’t do that. stop hating and just enjoy the music. it’s very hard to come up with lyrics these days that other bands have already somewhat written about. same deal with breakdowns. if we took them out, how, would we, as deathcore fans, COMPLETELY enjoy the music? there are so many bands out there these days that the chords, riffs, screams, everything can’t NOT sound somewhat similar. so shut the fuck up.

  • poopface

    these guys arent that bad
    generic as they are,this song makes me wanna beat a bag of cute kittens with a bat

  • JesuFer

    i liek the part of teh song when the guitaristz play the open-note powurr chord..it was teh br00talz

  • Kevin

    SUFFOKATE =/= SUFFOCATION.

    I SAID IT.

  • Josh

    Pretty much everybody in this forum are close minded douche bags. It’s because of people like this that the metal scene sucks ass. “Your subgenre of metal sucks.” “No, YOUR subgenre of metal sucks!” Stop being immature douche bags. The people towards the bottom aren’t as bad, but fucking seriously? Everybody in the first like 60 posts have no right to talk. I agree with Kyle, Tim, and Joe(except for the Bring Me The Horizon statement). Pretty much all genres of music have been around for a long time. Find one song, let alone musician, that sounds nothing like anything else. And don’t fucking complain or say that they have no talent when you can’t play anything even half as good as that.
    The metal scene today is so scattered. Metalheads hate other metalheads for not liking certain bands or liking certain bands. People get the shit beat out of them for dumb shit reasons at concerts. Metalheads suck. For this reason, I almost like hardcore kids more than metalheads. Crowd killers are douche bags, but the other hardcore kids.With them, it’s more about looking at common grounds than differences. They’re more friendly and generally are more open minded when it comes to music. Maybe this is why deathcore/metalcore/hardcore/whatever-core bands are popping up more and more- the scene is more united, the people are more open minded, and the people are less likely to judge other people.
    The fact that people are focusing on the way the band look PROVES that they have 0 musical taste. To them, image is all that matters, and if the band doesn’t fit the extremely small definition of what LOOKS good, they hate them. For a few of the ignorant douche bags that started the posting on this forum, having breakdowns doesn’t fit their incredibly small definition of “good music” because breakdowns are popular. BIG FUCKING DEAL. Just because more people like something doesn’t mean that that thing is bad.
    Admittedly, the video is not the most creative. It does bother me how metal music videos are all starting to revolve around the band playing their music in a vacant location and trying to add in random clips to make it look badass. It’s been done so many times that it’s starting to become pointless to even make a music video.

  • Shelbyyslaughterhouse

    One: I bet you he get’s more girls with those hot ass gauges then any of your dumbasses have even met. He’s a nice person big goddamn deal he has three inch gauges it’s what he likes, you like sitting on your ass and making websites that deserve to get shit on.
    Two: There music is great, I understand not everyone like death metal but there is a ton of people who do and there one of the better bands out there. There lyrics are great I’d put 20 bucks on saying none of you motherfuckers could come up with better lyrics that would get you somewhere.
    Three: I’d be pissed to if all my life consisted of was making websites about bands who make millions while I sat on my fatass all day.
    GET OFF YOUR LAZY FATASS AND GET A REAL GODDAMN JOB<3
    fuck you all.

  • JW

    y dont u little pricks shut up suffokate kicks ass their 1 of the best rising death metal bands iys better than all the pussie bull shit christian rock country or whatever the hell u listen 2 if u dont like then dont fuckin listen 2 it and dont talk shit about it cause your not fucking metal heads dumbass’s

  • Dave Death

    This is a funny page – the illiterate comments at the end, including the one that doesn’t realize that the people here criticizing ‘deathcore’ are death metal people – are especially funny.

    Suffokate sucks and Ricky Hoover will be sorry one day when he realizes he looks like a complete tool.

    Their music is as good as Whitechapel, for sure. In other words, it’s crap.

  • Immortal Slayer

    Always wondered why death metalheads feel they should hate on deathcore fans.Its totaly pointless that you claim to be more musicaly matured.suffokate kicks arse.and for all those wondering about the ears google “the massai tribe from east africa” that shit was around before you grandmas were born.