With 5.33 million units sold which is 10.66 million in RIAA sales, it remains the best-selling rap greatest hits compilation of all time and the twentieth best-selling rap album since Nielsen Soundscan began tracking record sales in 1991. Nearly 11 years later, in June 2011, it was certified by the RIAA for shipments of over 10 million, the late rapper's first RIAA Diamond award. On October 16, 2000, it was certified 9× platinum. It has spent 319 weeks on the Billboard 200. In January 1999, the album reached its peak at number three on the chart. There is TRUE talent involved when you can play riffs that are that complex inside 16ths and keep time/meter.Greatest Hits debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 268,000 copies in its first week. Also, check Decapitated…another giant like Emperor/Behemoth.Īnd too all the Haterade drinkers out there- I agree with 76- you taste needs refining- death/grind is a genre thats here to stay and has the most talented musicians this side of classical and Hungarian folk. If you like this, check out bands like: Warfair? and Hemorrhage…esp Hemorrhage, they are considered one of the best death/grind bands of all time. Suffocation was good awhile ago- they are definitely rhythmically charged- I grew past that and now and listen to groups like STRESS, Coaccion, Unsane Crisis (mostly grind/crust) …although they all have roots in bands like these (posted). Links: NFO, Metal-Archives, Last.fm, MySpace, Homepage, Hi-Rez Cover Release name: Suffocation-The_Best_Of_Suffocation-2008-MTD

The band is also known for having two African American musicians (drummer Mike Smith and guitarist Terrance Hobbs) which is rare in the underground metal scene.īITRATE : avg. Suffocation is placed amongst peers Immolation, Incantation, and Morpheus (Descends) as being part of a genetic fragment of death metal known as “New York Death Metal”, or “NYDM” for short. Suffocation fused the predominant rhythmic styles of early death metal, with complex song structures to start a new subgenre of music, considered brutal death metal by some. The discographies of some bands out there can be rather intimidating and its often very hard to know where to begin. Personally I’m not a huge fan of “best of” compilations, but they can be very useful for someone who wants to start listening to a band which has released a lot of albums. This time a “Best of” from US Death Metal band Suffocation. It’s a relatively quiet day here at rlslog, so I decided to keep the site busy as always with another music post.

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