MAKE THEM SUFFER: set to release fourth studio album HOW TO SURVIVE A FUNERAL, drop second single DROWN WITH ME.
Following up previous effort Worlds Apart, released in 2017 to critical acclaim, Perth metalcore legends MAKE THEM SUFFER are gearing up to release their fourth full-length HOW TO SURVIVE A FUNERAL which arrives on July 24th via Rise Records and their freshly inked deal with Greyscale Records. The highly-anticipated studio album was recorded in Los Angeles with the collaboration of producer Drew Fulk.
Make Them Suffer gave their fans a first sneak peek of the record back in March with lead single and video Erase Me, which was the first material to come out after standalone singles Ether, 27 and Hollowed Heart. The band of Sean Harmanis, Booka Nile, Nick McLernon, Jordan Mather and Jaya Jeffery returns on April 14th, 2020 with second ripper DROWN WITH ME.
It’s punchy song with an amazing mix and quality. For their second release, Make Them Suffer combine bold heaviness and soaring melodic catchiness with a backbone of deliciously headbangable groove. Mastering the mid range of growl, in this song Sean Harmanis also shines on impressive lows. Low growl slams into play towards the end of the song, after a tempo change, where a cavernous low-and-slow breakdown kicks in to take the rampage to its conclusion.
As listened in previous single Erase Me, the vocal combo has proven to be a stellar asset to the band. Especially relevant to the delivery of the catchy chorus, Booka Nile’s mesmerizing clean vocals battle against Sean Harmanis’ blistering vocal performance.
The heavy sections and the chorus deliver quite a punch that, along with the lyrics, might hit close to home for some people. About new single DROWN WITH ME and its lyrical inspiration, the band stated:
“Drown With Me’ is just a really fuc*ed up love song. Love can be beautiful, but also dark and terrifying. The lyrics ‘Take my hand, don’t be scared, drown with me if you can’ beckons the listener to take the plunge into the unknown”.
Stream Make Them Suffer – Drown With Me off upcoming record How To Survive A Funeral:
Make Them Suffer – Drown With Me Lyrics:
Come drown with me
Play back these moments in our dreams
Rewind and repeat. Rewind and repeat
Sink down with me
Come be swept up in memory
Let your spirit be taken by seas
Let your lungs become wings
Lost in the surge of the waves
Relief still feels fathoms away
Your slumber awaits
for you to come claim
Take my hand, don’t be scared
Drown with me if you can
Like we’re sand, like we’re stones in the water
Drown with me if you can
So take my hand and drown with me
Don’t fear the oceans of change
These waters waiting an age
are so much wiser than words can explain
Don’t fear the oceans of change
for they have spoken your name
They have known you from long since before you came
Your bed awaits for you to claim
Take my hand, don’t be scared
Drown with me if you can
Like we’re sand, like we’re stones in the water
Drown with me if you can
Let your spirit be taken by seas
Let your lungs become wings
Sink down with me
come be swept up in memory
Let your spirit be taken by seas
So take my hand and drown with me
Drown with me
Make Them Suffer – How To Survive A Funeral tracklisting:
1. Step One
2. Falling Ashes
3. Bones
4. Drown With Me
5. Erase Me
6. Soul Decay
7. Fake Your Own Death
8. How to Survive A Funeral
9. The Attendant
10. That’s Just Life
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