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Friday, 01 February 2008 12:40 |
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 Suicide Silence, who were recently announced as part of the first inaugural Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival have released a statement to their fans, who it would seem are unhappy with the bands decision to tour with Disturbed and Slipknot.
The band commented "Many of you are essentially saying we'd be better
off playing in front of the fan-base that already knows us as opposed
to steering fans of Slipknot/Disturbed, etc. into a direction of
extreme metal that they may otherwise not even know about or may have
never be exposed to?
"We tour constantly all year long, travel in vans that break down, and
cram 5-6 guys into single hotel rooms to save money, still not coming
home with money equivalent to working at your local mall. It's not
glamorous and it's not easy. However, we like to always step things up
and expand our live show. We'll never be able to do this if we tour in
the same "league" of bands for our entire career. There's just no way
we'd be able to implement all of the ideas we come up with to make our
live sets more intense and unique to the specific time you see our band.
"Also, if you had a choice between playing on a huge stage with great
sound and hundreds of fans headbanging in the first few rows vs.
smaller stages with poor sound, inexperienced techs, & less fans
rocking out, which would you choose? Sure the small shit is fun
sometimes, but this is our career here and unfortunately that involves
more than just having fun all the time. Our music is not changing.
We'll tour with whatever bands we want. Deal with it."
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