Trivia / Suicide Silence

• Creative Differences: These were ultimately what led to Alex Lopez leaving. He had been drifting apart from the rest of the band for some time, but this all came to a head during the writing process with Become the Hunter, as he could not see eye-to-eye with Garza and Kenny about anything, and Lopez eventually gave up, ducked out, and became a nominal member and didn't try to stop them when they called up Ernie about tracking drums.
• Creator Backlash: Chris Garza stated in his podcast that he hates Become the Hunter. This is primarily due to its extremely scattershot and fractured creative process, which resulted in an album that was mostly cobbled together from whatever they had on hand and whatever Garza and Dan Kenny were able to put together while Mark was on hiatus, and by Garza's own admission, the mood by the end was "we have a deadline to meet, just get it done and out".
• Creator's Oddball: The self-titled. While they were certainly no strangers to nu metal and had been foreshadowing a complete Genre Shift for a while, it was still a jarring shift that stands out compared to the rest of their discography, and its legendarily poor reception and near-Creator Killer status made their return to deathcore with Become the Hunter a predictable and understandable choice.
• Dear Negative Reader: The band's response to criticism of their self-titled album came across as smug and defensive, with Alex infamously attacking critiques on the band's Facebook and Eddie providing his own snarky commentary. It is generally agreed that this is one of the reasons why the album bombed as hard as it did; leaving a sour taste in people's mouths is not a good way to sell an already-controversial release, and even the people who actually liked the album generally can agree that they fucked up horribly here.
• Executive Meddling: Inverted. They fired their management before the self-titled dropped; by all accounts, every single party responsible for them told them that the album was a terrible idea, that they should shelve it and cut their losses, and that it was going to kill their career, but they refused to budge.
• Genre Popularizer: During the MySpace era's peak, Suicide Silence was easily the face of deathcore at the time, and their appearance at the inaugural Mayhem Fest did wonders for the band and the genre. If it wasn't for The Cleansing, Count Your Blessings, The Somatic Defilement, Doom, The Price of Existence, The Ills of Modern Man, As Blood Runs Black's Allegiance, and Born of Osiris's The New Reign, it's doubtful deathcore would have taken off like it did.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: All of the demos and the self-titled EP were long out-of-print until 2019, when the Rare Ass Shit compilation made them available again.
• The Pete Best: Former lead singer Tanner Womack only appeared on some early demos.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Frank Mullen was invited to perform at the memorial show, but had to decline due to scheduling conflicts.
  • Mitch was to have a feature on the then upcoming Betraying the Martyrs album Phantom, but Mitch's death stopped that from happening. Betraying the Martyrs did another song featuring Yung Yogi and did a song called "Legends Never Die" in Mitch's honor.

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