A good four years separate rager Pinnacle Of Bedlam from new killer …Of The Dark Light. But it wasn’t always like this. Back in the ‘90s, SUFFOCATION maniacs waited, at most, two years between old and new fixes of New York-styled brutality. There were times when SUFFOCATION’s march towards total annihilation was fast and furious. “There’s a reason we don’t put out records every two years now,” asserts long-time SUFFOCATION guitarist and primary songwriter Terrance Hobbs. “For one, we don’t need to. Two, we tour more now than we did in the early days. And three, we’re no longer in our twenties. We all have lives and families now. Plus, I enjoy writing things and letting them organically mature. For example, I started writing songs for …Of The Dark Lightright after Pinnacle Of Bedlam.” …Of The Dark Light, a full-length that not only welcomes new members - drummer Eric Morotti and guitarist Charlie Errigo - but also sees Hobbs writing the craziest, cruelest SUFFOCATION material since Effigy Of The Forgotten. “Now, bands are very cutting edge,” Hobbs observes. “So, we felt we had to step up our game a little bit. Still be unique, but I will say we’re still using the same formula we’ve been using since SUFFOCATION formed. It’s just ramped up.” Written over a four-year span but finalized in the studio - “bells and whistles”, Hobbs calls it - »…Of The Dark Light« ups SUFFOCATION’s already ridiculous ante. The first song written, ‘The Warmth Within The Dark’, is just as powerful, technical, and savage as the last song written, ‘Caught Between Two Worlds’. It’s hard to believe members Frank Mullen and Hobbs were doing this in their teens. Now, almost three decades later, SUFFOCATION are more intense, have more fire, and can still out-riff, out-growl, and out-blast younger bands mimeo'd off classics like Despise The Sun and Blood Oath.