| View Larger Image | Breeding the Spawn | Audio CDby Suffocation
| List Price: | $17.98 | |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Roadrunner Records | | Release Date: | May 18, 1993 | | Sales Rank: | 63,005rd |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Beginning of Sorrow
- Track 2: Breeding the Spawn
- Track 3: Epitaph of the Credulous
- Track 4: Marital Decimation
- Track 5: Prelude to Repulsion
- Track 6: Anomalistic Offerings
- Track 7: Ornaments of Decrepancy
- Track 8: Ignorant Deprivation
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 23 reviews)
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Awesome Death Metal by Wayne A. Grimsey (New Zealand)  4 Stars
July 08, 2009
Breeding the Spawn has been out of print for a while. Quite a few fans seem to overlook this album, due to it's below par production. However, this weakness is more than made up for via Mike Smith's fantastic drumming and Terrance Hobbs fast technical guitar skills, though the guitar sound is quite faint in the mix.
There is still plenty here for death metal fans to enjoy. There's some fantastic time changes and technicality in the music here. A lot of it is quite catchy after a few listens.
Some of the tracks have been redone on other Suffocation releases.
I bought my copy used. Hopefully, they'll re-issue this album with better mastering for the fans that don't have the original release (you can generally still find it used).
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Blame it on Roadrunner.... by Bonham.45 (Chucktown, SC) 4 Stars
September 25, 2007
Breeding the Spawn was Suffocation's sophomore effort for Roadrunner. Songwise, its classic Suffocation. Technical riffing, Mike Smith's signature blasts, interesting song arrangements. The production is where the problem lies. The Suffoguys wanted to use producer Scott Burns again like they had before on their fantastic release 'Effigy of the Forgotten', but Roadrunner would'nt allow them to use him, claiming that there were too many bands already using him. That seems unlikely because Death and Cynic were the only 2 bands I recall that used Scott in 93.(Roadrunner pulled the exact same thing on Malevolent Creation in 93 with Stillborn) The end result was a muddy production , in which, at times, the drums and bass were the 2 most audible instruments. In a couple of instances, I was wondering if the guitars were even there because they were so low in the mix. The guitar solos sounded like they were recorded in the alley out back behind the studio! Either way, I still enjoy the album very much. It would be 5 stars if not for the production. I recommend it if you can find a copy. (I got a copy for a little over $20 on the Amazon Marketplace...)
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An almost great album by Zander Haberstaft (Miami, Florida)  3 Stars
August 12, 2007
While "Effigy of the Forgotten" will remain in my mind as one of the most overrated albums of the early nineties, "Breeding the Spawn" is a significant step up in some important ways. Everyone knocks the production, true it is less focused on the bass and low mid range end, but the treble side catches some of the brilliance of the bass guitar work on this album.
Terrance Hobbs and Doug Cerrito are really great guitarists. In fact, they were the only ones rescuing "Effigy" from being Cannibal Corpse Jr. and made up for the more than lacking talent of the drumming and the vocals a la Mullen. Hobbs and Cerrito are heard quite clearly here but the bass guitar is the most shine-through instrument on this album. The production on "Effigy" kicked out the bass guitar but with this production the bass guitar is brought forward more and is quite prominent (check out the lines on "Epitaph of the Credulous".) (Steve DiGiorgio himself might be jealous of these basslines that is how awesome they are.) Another benefit to this album is tempos are slightly more freeform than they were on "Effigy". A little bit, but not much.
For one of the most copied bands in Death Metal, if not THE most copied band, Suffocation's followers copied them for all the wrong reasons. Instead of copying or trying to emulate the guitars or bass, they tried to co-opt the vocals of Frank Mullen or the one dimensional drumming of the not-always-so-ideal Mike Smith. One thing I never understand is how Suffocation's disciples like to describe their music as ever so "technical". This isn't really technical at all with the possible exception of Cerrito and Hobbs. (If you want technical check out Watchtower, Atheist, Cynic, Anacrusis, Coroner, etc.) Luckily this panned album would not keep the band from recording their magnum opus two years later. It's not a bad album and in a lot of ways it is better than "Effigy", but Suffocation still had yet to be fully actualized. I can only begin to recommend this album for the guitar and bass work alone.
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Great Music, Terrible Production by Bill Lumbergh (Initech) 4 Stars
July 04, 2007
This is the most overlooked album in the Suffocation catalog, and it is sadly out of press. Is it because of the musical performance in here? No, they did an excellent job at that. The reason why "Breeding The Spawn" is such an overlooked record is because of a terrible producing job done. Sub-par production isn't always a bad thing as long as it fits in with the music, but when it comes to Suffocation, and thinking this album came out after "Effigy of the Forgotten", it's just sad that this CD had to have such lame production. Thanks to that, the guitar tone is thin, the bass is barely audible, Frank Mullen's vocals sound like he has a sore throat, and the CD sounds like it was recorded in a garage.
There are golden elements in this album. Excellent riffage in songs like "Beginning of Sorrow" and the title track, the bass solo in "Epitaph of the Credulous", and excellent drumming make this another CD worth listening despite the terrible production.
Overall, this is a good CD. It's solid, well-played death metal. However, if you're new to the band, check out "Effigy of the Forgotten" first, and save this for later.
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Suffocations worst - Pick up Effigy of the Forgotten or Pierced From Within by Nailed To Gold (New York)  2 Stars
February 09, 2006
Within 5 seconds of listening to this disc you can hear how poorly produced it is. It actually sounds like you are listening to a warped cassette tape !! After Effigy of the Forgotten, you have to wonder what they were thinking when this was released. Was it because of pressure from the record company that caused them to release this album with such a poor sound? The bass-heavy, in your face brutality of Effigy of the Forgotten is gone. Instead we are left yearning for so much more while trying to make out low, thin guitars and the barely audible drums. I have tried to listen to this for years and I just cant find anything good.
The first song and the title track are good songs, but beyond that the rest of the album is weak. The beginning of the last song, Ignorant Deprivation, just sounds so damn cheezy because of the horrid guitar sound. Maybe if they re-recorded these songs (like they did with Breeding the Spawn on Pierced From Within) you would be able to hear what they are supposed to sound like.
I do not recommend picking this album up. I see that other people love this album, but it is clearly Suffocation's worst.
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