New Music – Eternal $uicide

$uicideboy$, the now fairly known punk/clout/trill-rap group that swept the underground rap scene by storm, finally releases their highly anticipated debut album, Eternal Grey. This was supposed to be the best of the best from $uicideboy$, the real crème de la crème. Unfortunately, Eternal Grey is interesting at a first glance, but then slowly fades into what feels like a writer’s block nightmare.

Eternal Grey has some interesting and intuitive instrumentation, the beats that back the tracks are actually varied and switch up in style even within the songs themselves. What was lacking, was the actual verses. $uicideboy$ has always been on the verge of “edgy” and “trying too hard,” with Eternal Grey, they start to teeter more towards the “too hard” part of the spectrum.

The first track that comes to mind is “I Want to Believe,” this track starts out promising with a strong introduction from $crimm, or who is now better known as Yung $carecrow. Then it goes into this outrageously aggressive screaming match that destroys the track. Usually this would be something I could get behind as it is an in your face kind of attitude, however on “I Want to Believe” it just feels so out of place and unwelcome.

There were some great things on Eternal Grey, but they were mostly the production side of things. The beats on “BREAKDALAW2K16,” “Elysian Fields,” and the wolf howl sample used on “Eclipse” were all great uses of what $uicideboy$ had at their disposal.  Unfortunately, the production just was not enough to save Eternal Grey from becoming monotonous after only a few listens.

From the track “Ultimate Suicide” that was leaked, it was easy to become immensely excited to hear some new music from the “Underground Kings.” Instead I found it to be better to go back to their older tapes that had more fleshed out ideas. Eternal Grey has so many shifts and jumps in songs, which sometimes works out for the album but in this case it crushed the album down even farther than it already was.

Eternal Grey was a project that had more than enough hype and potential to be $uicideboy$ best release to date. Sadly, the debut album is more of a less interesting sounding montage of all their songs from previous releases.

Eternal Grey was an experimental mess of misery, rather than moving forward, I feel like Eternal Grey is just standing still. It was not entirely a flop. The production continues to become better and better and while I downright hated certain songs, there were still some moments that made me feel like I was discovering $uicideboy$ all over again.