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//JonoSuicide Season: Cut Up
Bring Me The Horizons last release, Suicide Season was met with rave reviews from all corners of the music world, everyone seemed to be in accord that this was a groundbreaking album for a previously Deathcore band. Their style changed, they took on a more mature sound, experimented with a more melodic sound in many places, collaborated with well known musicians that influence their style and generally made an all round damn fine album.
As a tribute to Suicide Seasons popularity, Suicide Season: Cut Up was released in November of 2009. Cut up features remixed versions of almost all of the Suicide Season tracks. Some songs have been remixed twice or three times by different artists, each with a vastly different approach.
How well this album does in comparison to the previous release is sceptical as the only people who really knew or cared about the release were die hard fans (and people like me who get off on remix’s of metal tracks).
Some seriously big names worked on this album however and its no wonder that it is, in its own right very popular amongst BMTH fans. Everyone from Sonny Moore, to the Utah Saints and even Shawn Crahan from slipknot worked on this album, giving it an extremely professional and well polished mix.
Most of the songs included on the album are of a very similar style, I guess there’s only so much you can do when remixing metal tracks. Each took a heavy, industrial electro approach with only a few exceptions which include Shawn’s mix which is just a reworked Deathcore piece, no real electronic beats, pops, squeaks or scratches which I was surprised about especially in light of his work as DJ Starscream (jungle Drum n Bass).
Possibly the most unique approach was by Travis McCoy who turned Chelsea Smile into a dirty hiphop track. I cant say it’s the greatest song on there but its certainly a new approach.
The one track that stands out to me as being a class above or better than the rest would have to be the Sonny Moore remix. As much as it pains me to admit, he did a damn fine job creating a danceable, unique deep electro track with many drum and bass elements throughout it. Ever since he left From First To Last, ive hated his solo work and only mildly tolerated his work under the guise Skrillex however this is an amazing piece of work and he deserves credit.
It is a fantastic album from start to finish, however I find myself only listening to a handful of the remixes regularly. It was a great delight for me to finally hear The Secret Handshake mix played in a club a few weeks back. This album stands as testament to a band who, regardless of their immense popularity, are able to continue to produce unique and entertaining music.
How well this album does in comparison to the previous release is sceptical as the only people who really knew or cared about the release were die hard fans (and people like me who get off on remix’s of metal tracks).
Some seriously big names worked on this album however and its no wonder that it is, in its own right very popular amongst BMTH fans. Everyone from Sonny Moore, to the Utah Saints and even Shawn Crahan from slipknot worked on this album, giving it an extremely professional and well polished mix.
Most of the songs included on the album are of a very similar style, I guess there’s only so much you can do when remixing metal tracks. Each took a heavy, industrial electro approach with only a few exceptions which include Shawn’s mix which is just a reworked Deathcore piece, no real electronic beats, pops, squeaks or scratches which I was surprised about especially in light of his work as DJ Starscream (jungle Drum n Bass).
Possibly the most unique approach was by Travis McCoy who turned Chelsea Smile into a dirty hiphop track. I cant say it’s the greatest song on there but its certainly a new approach.
The one track that stands out to me as being a class above or better than the rest would have to be the Sonny Moore remix. As much as it pains me to admit, he did a damn fine job creating a danceable, unique deep electro track with many drum and bass elements throughout it. Ever since he left From First To Last, ive hated his solo work and only mildly tolerated his work under the guise Skrillex however this is an amazing piece of work and he deserves credit.
It is a fantastic album from start to finish, however I find myself only listening to a handful of the remixes regularly. It was a great delight for me to finally hear The Secret Handshake mix played in a club a few weeks back. This album stands as testament to a band who, regardless of their immense popularity, are able to continue to produce unique and entertaining music.
