{"id":30309,"date":"2016-08-28T17:22:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T07:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=30309"},"modified":"2016-08-28T17:22:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T07:22:49","slug":"mark-haylmun-suicide-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2016\/08\/mark-haylmun-suicide-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Haylmun of Suicide Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Suicide<\/a>
\n\u201cTwo years ago it was like maintenance, we were putting together I guess the new group, the new fronted group and we wanted to prove that we were going to be able to maintain the ferociousness that we always had, and now that we\u2019ve even proved to ourselves that we\u2019ve done that we\u2019re so confident and so sure footed in everything that we\u2019re doing\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

From release: Many of the greatest works of art throughout history were fashioned from grief, anger and overwhelming despair descending on its creators in the aftermath of tragedy and\u00a0SUICIDE SILENCE\u2019s\u00a0appropriately last album titled\u00a0\u2018You Can\u2019t Stop Me\u2019\u00a0was no exception. Plenty of bands trumpet the idea of strength through adversity, but few have lived it like this one.\u00a0\u2018You Can\u2019t Stop Me\u2019\u00a0served as a simultaneous introduction to vocalist\u00a0Hernan \u201cEddie\u201d Hermida, as well as a celebration of the brotherhood the band shared with\u00a0Hermida\u2019s fallen predecessor the late\u00a0Mitch Lucker, while their formidable revamped sound made it clear that\u00a0SUICIDE SILENCE\u2019s resurrection was complete.<\/p>\n

While in Venice, California we gave Mark from Suicide Silence a call to talk about the band\u2019s upcoming Australian tour, settling in with a new singer, new music and much more\u2026<\/p>\n

We\u2019re here because you’re of course heading back to Australia, It\u2019s your first headline run here with Eddie, so how would you describe a typical Suicide Silence show for someone who hasn\u2019t yet seen you?<\/strong>
\nA typical Suicide Silence show is full tilt boogie energy fuckin insanity, lose your fuckin mind, have fun, forget your name, call your Mom afterwards and tell her that you love her.<\/p>\n

That should be on the tour poster\u2026<\/strong>
\n*laughs* It is on the poster, I\u2019m just reading the script.<\/p>\n

As you were here with Soundwave last time, what are you hoping to do this time that you weren’t able to on the last tour?<\/strong>
\nGet a little bit more personal with the direct fans, not the festival going fans that just got to Soundwave and just put on their festival shoes and have fun, I don\u2019t know just more intimate with the fuckin\u2019 Suicide Silence die-hards that are gonna come and rage at our show. Our shows are always a little bit more, I don\u2019t even fuckin know\u2026 a little more insane asylum kind of shit, people show up and get really weird so we need to get weird with them, so just more strangery and more bad-assery\u2026<\/p>\n

You made your live debut with Eddie here in 2014, what were the nerves like when you have to go on stage with a new singer for the first time not knowing how fans will react?<\/strong>
\nIt was insane. It was the most intense shows I\u2019ve played in a long time, we already made our mind up that it was going to be badass and there was potential there so we just hit the stage with confidence and not hit it with a question mark of what it was going to be. We said it\u2019s Australia, it\u2019s going to be sick, we know that we\u2019ve still got it and we\u2019re gonna impress some people and the people that we aren\u2019t gonna impress they made their mind up before they saw us, so fuckin\u2019 show them what\u2019s up and that\u2019s pretty much where we were at. We were surrounded by all our friends and people we\u2019ve known for a long time, so there was a lot of support as well. All in all it was a nerve-wracking experience but cathartic and one that I\u2019m gonna remember forever, so it was good.<\/p>\n

Obviously it was the worst thing in the world in relation to Mitch and I\u2019m sorry for your loss man, was there ever a time that you thought about throwing it in or was that not an option at all?<\/strong>
\nIt wasn\u2019t really an option but it was milled over in the list of ideas of what to do, but it didn\u2019t take us long to realise that we wanted to keep it going and keep the train rollin\u2019 because not only because it\u2019s all we know but because it\u2019s all we fuckin\u2019 know and all we\u2019ve ever done and something that we started as kids and it would just be a shame to let that be the bookend and there\u2019s really nothing that can stop this group and we\u2019re gonna do this shit forever, no matter what, it\u2019s what we love to do and it\u2019s our outlet so we\u2019re gonna keep it rollin\u2019 forver.<\/p>\n

In the last two years you’ve obviously found your footing with him, so how do you feel the band has adapted to new blood and where would you say you are now compared to two years ago?<\/strong>
\nTwo years ago it was like maintenance, we were putting together I guess the new group, the new fronted group and we wanted to prove that we were going to be able to maintain the ferociousness that we always had, and now that we\u2019ve even proved to ourselves that we\u2019ve done that we\u2019re so confident and so sure footed in everything that we\u2019re doing and it\u2019s become like I said prior, this has become our outlet and what we use to express ourselves and now two years into it we\u2019re all each other\u2019s fire on top of fire on top of fire and everybody\u2019s just encouraging of each other and we\u2019re pumped to get back on the road and get this whole cycle flowing. We\u2019re releasing new music soon and everything\u2019s just we\u2019re on top of the world, two years ago was just getting our footing and now we\u2019re ready to jump off of any cliff and survive. *laughs*<\/p>\n

So we had the aptly titled \u2018You Can\u2019t Stop Me\u2019 out in 2014 and you’re working on a new album, anything you can update us on or give us the scoop on?<\/strong>
\nThe new music is far along man, we\u2019ve been working on new tunes from when we got home last November, so there\u2019s a bunch of new shit, and yeah sooner than later there\u2019ll be some new Suicide Silence to bless those ear holes.<\/p>\n

With the last album being noted in a way as therapeutic for you guys, how has writing for this new record differed in any way?<\/strong>
\nThe last record, yeah\u2026 it\u2019s almost always therapeutic you know, this is just the next step in the therapy of what it is to be us. It\u2019s great that you just referred to it as therapy because absolutely how it falls in line with a group like us, when it\u2019s time to write a record, it\u2019s time to write a fuckin\u2019 record because we need to write a record *laughs* we need to let shit out, be the unit, be the band, be the unit and just let everybody unload their problems into these weird sounds and whatever it is we fuckin\u2019 do, and yeah, this one is just gonna be the next step, as always it\u2019s going to be strides ahead of anything we\u2019ve done before and it\u2019s already just turning out to be something new and badass and fresh, so we\u2019re stoked.<\/p>\n

Do you think we can expect to hear anything new on your tour down here or will you wait until the album is out?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s a possibility, but it\u2019s not for sure yet, we haven\u2019t put together the set list.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve been with the band for over ten years now, how do you feel you\u2019ve grown as an artist or more specifically as a guitar player personally in that time?<\/strong>
\nMainly I guess just where the influence comes from, I guess when you\u2019re young you write music with the intention of certain people hearing it or what people are going to think or what kind of people are going to like this, and I guess as I\u2019ve gotten older and grown with this group and grown with everybody I can probably speak for everybody in the band, we\u2019ve all come back to square one, which is like we all play music because we love to play music, it\u2019s something that we know and our fuckin\u2019 hearts want us to do and with lyrics we come as close to being able to hone in on why we play music and what it is that makes us stoked to play a riff or write a part or come up with a verse or a chorus or whatever it is, we\u2019ve just become more ourselves than we ever have and that\u2019s just pumped us up getting older, we\u2019re not kids, we don\u2019t have the same teenage thing we had when we wanted to be weird and piss people off.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the one thing you want to do with the band that you haven\u2019t yet had the opportunity to do?<\/strong>
\nMetallica\u2026 isn\u2019t that what we all want to do? Play with Metallica\u2026 I guess maybe Ozzy, but we\u2019re playing with Sabbath kinda this year which is pretty cool. Pretty much the same as the beginning, tour with all our favourite bands and just do shit that no one\u2019s ever done before, just tread new ground and play with all our favourite bands.<\/p>\n

Quickfire questions!<\/strong>
\n What\u2019s your favourite guitar riff of all time?<\/strong>
\nThe \u2018Warpigs\u2019 that super anthemy one *sings the riff*<\/p>\n

Who is your favourite band to see live?<\/strong>
\nCurrent I guess Metallica<\/p>\n

Are you pissed that Disturbed covered \u2018The Sound of Silence\u2019 before you guys could?<\/strong>
\n*laughs* Not one bit dude, Disturbed can do whatever they want.<\/p>\n

Lastly let’s look ahead to the end of the year and predict the future… so finish this sentence for me, the one thing Suicide Silence want to do by the end of 2016 is…<\/strong>
\nSurvive all of the touring we\u2019re about to do around the world. I mean literally that\u2019s the goal, that\u2019s on my mind, we\u2019re going everywhere. There\u2019s things happening in the world and we\u2019re about to dive into it, so hopefully we live through it.<\/p>\n

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SUICIDE SILENCE AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES SEPTEMBER 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0BRISBANE<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Woolly Mammoth 18+<\/p>\n

Sunday 4th<\/sup>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0SYDNEY<\/strong>, Manning Bar 18+<\/p>\n

Tuesday 6th<\/sup>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0NEWCASTLE<\/strong>, The Cambridge 18+<\/p>\n

Wednesday 7th<\/sup>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0MELBOURNE<\/strong>, 170 Russell 18+<\/p>\n

Thursday 8th<\/sup>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0ADELAIDE<\/strong>, Fowlers Live Lic\/AA<\/p>\n

Friday 9th<\/sup>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0PERTH<\/strong>, Amplifier 18+<\/p>\n

Tickets On Sale now via:\u00a0<\/strong>http:\/\/tickets.destroyalllines.com\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Essential Information<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong> Riverside, CA, USA<\/p>\n

Band members: <\/strong>Eddie Hermida: Vocals, Chris Garza: Guitar, Mark Heylmun: Guitar, Alex Lopez: Drums, Dan Kenny: Bass<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> \u00a0http:\/\/www.suicidesilence.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Latest release: <\/strong>You Can\u2019t Stop Me \u2013 (out now)<\/p>\n