These brutal mostly slow as well as medium tempo breakdowns, known as “Slams” are what made this brutal death metal. Pounding blast beats and super groovy riffs were already apparent in the first minutes, and after a ripping solo by Terrance Hobbs, Suffocation drops the tempo and begins chugging the heck out of their guitars.
The first “Slam” riff ever heard back in the day occurs in the first three minutes of the album. It was Terrance Hobbs’ and Doug Cerrito’s musicianship and brutal riffs, Mike Smith’s pounding blast beats, and Frank Mullen’s ridiculously guttural, yet understandable vocals that led Suffocation to be one of the most influential bands in metal history. However, it was not just the production that made this album a masterpiece. Scott Burns is the undisputed best old school death metal producer, producing music for many well-known bands from Napalm Death to Cannibal Corpse to Obituary etc. Suffocation traveled all the way to Temple Terrace, Florida from their humble beginnings in Centereach, New York to record at Morrisound Studios so Scott Burns could produce their album.
What made this album the first BRUTAL death metal album was that Suffocation was tuned in C standard, the lowest tuning used in death metal at the time, and the production on the album was amazing.
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It contained three songs on “Effigy” and one song re-recorded for their third full album, Pierced From Within. Death metallers at the time thought that Cannibal Corpse would be the heaviest thing they would hear, with lead singer Chris Barnes leading the charge for guttural vocals, but that changed when fans got a taste of Suffocation with their debut EP, Human Waste released on May 1st, 1991. Effigy of the Forgotten, released on October 22nd, 1991, by New York Brutal Death Metal Kings Suffocation, was the first Brutal Death Metal album ever created.
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