Album Review: Suffer – The Sorrow We Sow, The Hatred We Know (Self Released)

Suffer are a five-piece deathcore band from Wolverhampton, England. Formed in late 2018 with debut releases and live shows taking place in 2019, the band have gone from strength to strength playing shows across the UK before and after the pandemic, sharing stages with the likes of Decapitated, Black Tongue, Waking The Cadaver, Signs of the Swarm & loads more.

During this time, they’ve also released two EP’s (Slerm – 2019 & Heavy Silence – 2020), two standalone singles (Establishment – 2019 & Devour – 2020) leading up to their most recent release and first full-length album, ‘The Sorrow We Sow, The Hatred We Know’.

Building a strong reputation in the short amount of time they have been present on the scene, Suffer look to build on and enhance their name with this debut full-length album. An easy enough accomplishment when you’re delivering unmitigated heaviness as appears on The Sorrow We Sow, The Hatred We Know.

The building dread and following eruption of monstrous savagery that is Infernal Monologue gets the album off to a strong start. The heft and weight of Suffer’s deathcore style crashing down upon the skull with unbelievable force. Pressure that only increases with the bludgeoning guitar/drum combo that comes out swinging on Escapism and the shockingly intense Unhallowed Justice. The breakdown at the end of the latter track is stupidly brutal. Suffer’s The Sorrow We Sow, The Hatred We Know making a play for the title of ‘heaviest album of the year’.

There’s plenty of rest for the wicked, you just have to Rest in Hell and Suffer are the beckoning atrocity leading you over the edge of the pit. The way in which the track slows down, almost grinding to a halt, at the end is on another level. Following that, Encephalon Treason has the best example, on the album, of just how demonic the vocals can sound.

Suffer then welcome a pair of guests to the album; Alex Teyen of Black Tongue on Information Poverty and Josh Davis of Monasteries on The Narrow. The former track bristles with aggression whereas the latter doesn’t hold back with its pure viciousness.

Can you take any more? You kind of have too as Suffer have a few more punishing tracks to deliver before The Sorrow We Sow, The Hatred We Know is done. First up, it’s the sharp stompiness of Tide of Misery. Akin to being hoofed in the mouth with a steel-capped boot. Followed by speedy guitar parts, frenzied percussion and feral vocal roars in the form of Words of Peace, Passed Through Gritted Teeth. Before Final Hymn caps off a very fine extreme release with a bevy of brutish noise, resulting in one last bout of wild head-banging.

Suffer – The Sorrow We Sow, The Hatred We Know Full Track Listing:

1. Infernal Monologue
2. Escapism
3. Falsehood
4. Unhallowed Justice
5. Rest in Hell
6. Encephalon Treason
7. Information Poverty (ft Alex Teyen of Black Tongue)
8. The Narrow (ft Josh Davies of Monasteries)
9. Tide of Misery
10. Words of Peace, Passed through Gritted Teeth
11. Final Hymn

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