Suffocation Suffocation CD (Jewel Case, 2023, Relapse Record)

Suffocation’s self-titled fifth album is a landmark brutal and technical death metal album originally released in 2006. The New York death metal veterans deliver an uncompromising combination of crushing guitar riffs, intricate technical passages, devastating blast beats, guttural vocals, and powerful low-end heaviness. The album demonstrates the band's ability to combine extreme brutality with precise musicianship and complex songwriting.

Across its tracks, Suffocation moves between relentless high-speed death metal, crushing breakdowns, intricate guitar arrangements, and slower, groove-driven passages. Songs such as “Abomination Reborn,” “Redemption,” “Blind Torture Killing,” “Translucent Patterns Of Delirium,” and “Prelude To Repulsion” showcase the band's signature balance of technical precision and brutal impact. The performances are tight and aggressive, while the layered guitar work gives the album considerable depth and intensity.

With its combination of technical death metal complexity, brutal riffing, guttural vocals, and powerful rhythmic attack, Suffocation remains an essential release from one of the most influential bands in extreme metal. This 2023 CD edition is an excellent choice for collectors and fans of Suffocation, brutal death metal, technical death metal, and the classic New York extreme metal sound.

Recommended if you like: Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Immolation, Nile, Dying Fetus, and Cryptopsy

Artist: Suffocation 
Title: Suffocation 
Label: Relapse Record
Catalogue Number: RR6584-2
UPC: 781676658428
Release Year: 2023
Duration: Album
Format: CD 
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
Condition: New & factory sealed

Tracklists

1. Oblivion
2. Abomination Reborn
3. Redemption
4. Bind Torture Kill
5. Misconceived
6. Translucent Patterns Of Delirium
7. Creed Of The Infidel
8. Regret
9. Entrails Of You
10. The End Of Ends
11. Prelude To Repulsion