I'm not sure if you've heard by now, but Suicide Silence just released its self-titled album and it's pretty controversial. It's the second album the band has done since the passing of former vocalist Mitch Lucker, and according to Eddie Hermida in an interview with Loudwire, fans still aren't over the fact that the band continued on after Lucker.
Hermida was asked what the hardest part about replacing Lucker was and his answer was a bit surprising:
“The most challenging [thing] has been meeting fans that haven’t been able to let go and haven’t been able to move past Mitch’s passing,” Hermida told us. “For me, personally, it took me a while to get over it as well. It took the band a while to get over it as well. In fact, we all mourned together when we started playing music together … A lot of people would like to just hate me blatantly and I want to tell them that’s okay too, it’s okay to feel the way you’re gonna feel about it. I think that’s the hardest message to convey to people … I know that every step that I’m taking is done with good intention.”
It's certainly an uncomfortable situation for Hermida to be in, but the dude is persevering. Interestingly, on a recent edition of Talk Is Jericho, Hermida revealed he always knew the band would go in this direction once he joined. He said he knew his first album with the band, they had to prove they could still bring it, but then he wanted the second album to be the one where they experiment.
Do you like the new Suicide Silence album or are you over it?
