YMMV / Suffocation

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: "Some Things Should Be Left Alone", lyrically. Derek even mentioned that he knew it would be a bit jarring to switch from a concept album about a journey into the world of the dead gone wrong to a song about a demon brutally murdering the people who were unlucky enough to encounter it, but since it was Frank's contribution, they just opted to keep it without a second thought.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Doug Bohn. While Smith and Culross are the Suffocation drummers who get the lion's share of the press, there are more than a few Suffo fans who prefer Bohn to both due to his uniquely groovy and deceptively complex style.
• Fandom Rivalry: Over the years, the split with Mike Smith has spawned one of these between his fans and Hobbs' fans. While plenty of Suffocation fans don't care, the Smith diehards see Hobbs as a lazy stoner who is forcing an In Name Only version of Suffocation to limp on well past its prime, while the Hobbs diehards see Smith as a toxic, abusive bully who didn't actually give a shit about the band beyond what it could do to boost his ego.
• Funny Moments: Frank Mullen is a veritable wellspring of these. Chief among them is his drunken rendition of "New York, New York", as well as one of his frequent impromptu standup routines as shown here, but really, go to a Suffocation show and there's a chance that Frank will say or do something highly amusing.
  • Also, this commercial featuring the band for a History Channel program. No, really.
  • Alcohol-fueled hijinx abound on their 2015 European tour with Nile.
  Hobbs (while very, very drunk): "Do I have to show you guys how to make another 'L' again? After twenty years? After twenty years! I have to show you how to make an 'L'! Jack 'em up! Look, this is three bottles of straight-up bourbon later! Later! LATER!"
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: Apparently, this was one of the non-production criticisms against Breeding the Spawn at the time of release. Rather ridiculous, really - it was only one track and two minutes shorter than Effigy of the Forgotten.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: Another of the non-production criticisms against Breeding the Spawn. This stance more or less disappeared after a few years.
• Nightmare Fuel: Many of their song lyrics and music videos have a high quotient of this, with the video for "Cataclysmic Purification" being a standout example.
• Once Original, Now Common: Any death metal fan who knows anything will cite Human Waste and Effigy as all-time classics, but few people can fathom just how much those albums changed the face of death metal.
• Replacement Scrappy: Downplayed with Ricky. While there are holdouts who still refuse to accept anyone other than Frank, the general consensus seems to be that he has grown nicely into the role and succeeds on his own merits without trying to be Frank (though he has taken to doing the "blast chop"). Kevin Muller similarly ran into some of the same opposition, but plenty of fans took to his energy, power, and strong vocal resemblance to a young Frank. Also subverted with Eric Morotti; while plenty of fans still prefer either Smith or Culross, the general consensus is that he is a great fit for the band.
• Signature Song: "Infecting the Crypts" and "Funeral Inception", though the latter didn't become one until after Dave Culross rejoined in 2012, as Mike Smith struggled to play it live.
• Sophomore Slump: Big-time. Some aspects of Breeding the Spawn have been Vindicated by History; particularly, the song-writing, which was attacked at the time as failing to bring any new element to their sound, is now considered to have been among the most technical ever produced by the band. However, to this day it's generally agreed that the production and engineering is a total failure that brings the album down several notches.
• Tough Act to Follow: All Music's review of Breeding the Spawn posits that the album would've suffered this relative to Effigy of the Forgotten even if there hadn't been glaring flaws in the production, due simply to the monumental impact Effigy had on the death metal community. Needless to say, there's plenty of reason to debate that assertion given how highly the songwriting on Spawn is now regarded.