After that, they toured Europe with Parkway Drive and Bury Your Dead, following a successful US tour with the same band. With the success of their debut album, Suicide Silence was included to take part in the Mayhem Festival which took place during the summer of 2008. The week's sales ended in combination with the sale then made The Cleansing one of the best-selling debut albums in Century Media history. The album was released on Septemand debuted at number 94 on the Billboard 200, selling 7,250 copies in its first week of release. The album was written, recorded and finished in 2007 and dimixed by Tue Madsen, produced by John Travis and featuring artwork by Dave McKean. 2006 marks the departure of drummer Josh Goddard, who was replaced by Alex Lopez (former guitarist for Blacheart Eulogy and The Funeral Pyre).įollowing this event, the band went to Century Media in 2006 and began working on a third demo, which contained three pre-production songs of what they wanted to include on their long-awaited album called The Cleansing. Originally released by Third Degree Records, and later released back in the UK via In the Deep End Records.
Soon after, they recorded and released their first studio effort The self-titled EP was released in 2005. That's when the band members started doing more time for Suicide Silence. After Death Awaits finished, the band began recording a second demo, which was released in 2004 and contained the song "Stand Strong" with Lucker's vocals instead of Womack's.
Despite being fired soon afterwards, Womack's vocals appeared in the 2003 band demo Death Awaits. Their first live show was performed locally at Riverside, with a line-up consisting of Chris Garza (guitar), Rick Ash (guitar), Mike Bodkins (bass), Josh Goddard (drums) and vocalists Mitch Lucker and Tanner Womack. At that time, it was a side project consisting of musicians from other bands. Suicide Silence was founded in 2002 in Riverside, California.
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