SUICIDE SILENCE drummer Alex Lopez recently spoke to UK based Komodo Rock. An excerpt from the interview is below:

Q: Your album The Cleansing is already out in the US, but will finally see it's UK release in March. Can you tell us a bit more about the album?

AL: "The Cleansing was the first full length album anyone in Suicide Silence has ever made. We put a lot of passion into writing those songs. I was only in the band for a month before I had to start writing new material with for the album. The music was recorded in a live and my drums weren’t recorded to a click track. I’m not claiming that I’m a human metronome; I’m just saying it’s all natural and captured on the CD just like we wrote it. Those were our intentions from the beginning."

Q: On its US release it came in at #94 on the Billboard 200. Were you surprised at how well it sold?

AL: "Nowadays everything surprises me, but I’m truly grateful for people’s ability to like my band."

Q: You've said that to a certain extent you're OK with people downloading your album. Being that most bands publicly are very anti-filesharing, what's different for you?

AL: "Like everyone else, we certainly don’t like the idea of spending a bunch of money to make a record that every can acquire for free, but we also believe that fans of our band are always going to support us in a live setting as long as we continue to live up to our expectations and keep things affordable, etc. As long as the fans that download continue to buy other merchandise from us, we don’t really mind it that much."

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