Remember... You Must Die

Deathcore stars Suicide Silence had a mission statement while writing their seventh album. “We went by ‘HAP’—heavy as possible,” guitarist Mark Heylmun tells Apple Music. “I feel like that’s the goal of all our records, but on this one we all agreed what heavy meant. We’ve done seven albums, and it’s always apparent when we’re done that some people wanted more of this, and some people wanted more of that. I still can’t believe we were all on the same page in the same book.” The album title was inspired by the Latin phrase memento mori. “I was reading Latin poetry, which has all these phrases that have been said for thousands of years,” Heylmun explains. “Memento mori basically means ‘remember death’. It’s not a concept album, but a lot of the lyrics were inspired by this poetry about death and mortality. And Remember… You Must Die sounded hard as hell.” Below, he comments on each track. “Remember…” “It’s an intro. There’s a little poem in there that has lyrics that are in the next song. It’s a little preview of some of the concept in that. Really, it’s just to set the pace and get it started. It was a fun thing to put together. There’s actual guitars in there, and it’s an actual performance.” “You Must Die” “This is a classic ripper. Before we called it ‘You Must Die’, it was called ‘Ass Beater’. It’s no-frills, not trying to impress anybody. The wheel was already invented, and we’re just rolling on it. Songs like this are the ones that write themselves, and it’s still a mystery how that even happens. It’s just one of those songs that came naturally.” “Capable of Violence (N.F.W.)” “That’s an old-school death-metal-influenced song melded with old-school deathcore components. It’s a blend of the two influences that, I think, were umbrellaing this whole process, which is old-school death metal, which we all love, and what came to be called deathcore, which is basically just what we sound like.” “Fucked for Life” “This is my favourite song on the record, I think.