Suicide Silence singer opens up about poor album sales: "We don't need people to respect it"
While Suicide Silence's self-titled album was one of our most-anticipated releases of 2017, album sales were a little low only breaking the 4,600 sales mark its first week—it landed at No. 163 on the Billboard 200.
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The band's frontman, Eddie Hermida, spoke out in an interview with musicfrenzy.net about the album and its sales—and he's not upset in the least. “Everything seems to be crumbling to pieces, and that is exactly what is going to make me go harder and push harder and just become a better musician. Everything that is happening is happening for a reason, and I couldn't be happier with the outcome of everything,” Hermida says.
Hermida continued to stand up for the album saying, “This is the record that we were born to make as a band. Everything that has ever led up to this very moment—I was born to create that record. I was born to sound exactly the way I sound on that record. I was born to take all the flak. I was born to understand and grow from what happened on this record. Even if you sell 16,000 records and you end up with No. 13 on the Top 200 Billboard list, you can still feel empty inside if you're not following your heart 100%.”
It's safe to say Hermida doesn't care if people like it or don't like it. “If people don't like it, then I succeeded even more because I'm learning from my mistakes, quote unquote mistakes, even though it's not a mistake—it was meant to be the way it is. We don't need people to respect it. We just wanted to kick ass and listen to it and say 'fuck yeah,'” he says.
You can listen to the entire interview here.
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