Line #2 Trivia/Suffocation


1	* ArtistDisillusionment: At the core, this is what happened with Guy Marchais and Frank Mullen (albeit to a much lesser degree with the latter). Both were sick of lengthy drives and seemingly neverending interconnecting flights and airport terminal downtime, and Marchais experienced a series of major life changes (namely inheriting his mom's house down on Myrtle Beach and getting married) that made him realize that his heart simply wasn't in Suffocation any more. As for Frank, his day job's increasing inflexibility indeed played a major role, but he also just didn't want to deal with all the bullshit that touring tends to bring any more and opted to stick to recordings and very infrequent live appearances until he left for real in 2018.
2	* CreativeDifferences: The gist of what happened with Mike Smith and Ricky Myers.
3	** By ''Blood Oath'', Smith was basically his own camp and had a largely adversarial relationship with Hobbs and Marchais, and by the end of his run, he was a truly toxic presence and it's quite possible that the band would have broken up again had he stayed. While he went out on an ''incredibly'' bad note (destroying your bandmate's guitar cabs out of spite will do that), he at least ensured the band's survival.
4	** Myers, meanwhile, had a huge falling-out with most of the band around the end of 2016 and left with a bunch of drama, though amends were made and he happily returned in 2018 after Kevin Muller decided not to continue.
5	** Averted with Marchais, as he had just gone through a bunch of major life changes and was also done with touring.
6	** Also averted with Culross, who was in a truly awful relationship that was going to destroy his entire life if he stayed and had to basically flee Long Island and start over.
7	* CreatorBacklash: Several.
8	** Their distaste for how ''Breeding the Spawn'' turned out is legendary, which led to their decision to rerecord the material on future releases.
9	** The band as a whole does not particularly like ''...Of the Dark Light'' for multiple reasons. Much of it is with the production, which was far cleaner and more polished and modern than they had wanted when they recorded it, but they also feel that it is too technical and flashy for its own good.
10	* NoExportForYou: The Japanese release of their SelfTitledAlbum featured ''two'' re-recordings of ''Breeding the Spawn'' tracks: "Prelude to Repulsion", which was released to all regions, and "Anomalistic Offerings" which remains Japan-exclusive.
11	* ThePeteBest: Todd German and the unknown drummer.
12	* PromotedFanboy: Boyer (whose mother even remembers how he got in trouble for carving the band's name into a desk at school when he was fourteen), Myers, Errigo, and Muller.
13	* TroubledProduction / ScrewedByTheNetwork: ''Breeding the Spawn'' is known for its awful production, which was all due to Roadrunner refusing to pay for another recording session at Morrisound (where ''Effigy'' was recorded). This wound up being part of the reason why Smith initially quit; while Roadrunner kept the band signed (unlike Malevolent Creation, who went through the exact same thing with ''Stillborn''), they jumped ship not long after ''Pierced from Within'' was recorded. Most of the ''Breeding'' tracks have been re-recorded on other albums, so it stands to reason that they'll all turn up in a rerecorded fashion somewhere down the line.

Context Trivia / Suffocation