A conversation with Terrence Hobbs (Suffocation) 

It warms my heart knowing Hobbs has a brain. Not many musicians we can look up to now. Hes one of the few.

Pierced from within!!! Love Terrance and as a black man myself who loves extreme, death, thrash, groove, stoner and doom metal, I have always followed them!

Terrance is an absolute legend, a total badass. I put him right up there with Trey from Morbid Angel and Rob from Immolation. Love the podcast!🤘

Greatest guitarist ever and a truly inspiring and cool guy!

Sucks that this band didnt get more clout, compared to other bands at the time, suffocation was fucking unrivalled imo. Way more brutal compared to deicide and cannibal corpse, and just as techy as athiest and death, as well as all the musicians being just as good if not BETTER than their counterparts. Doug and terrence are fucking virtuosic compared to the hoffmans or CC, and chris richards bass playing imo topped Webster's and digiorgios, fast complicated riffs played with the fingers, and he fucking killed it everytime, hell even smiths drumming was unrivalled, yet pete sandoval gets more clout?? not to mention franks vocals, which in a year like 1991 were by far the most brutal. Put up against dave vincents, or barnes, nah man, absolute fucking carnage Suffocation are criminally underrated, and i will say this untl my last day on earth, compared to CC and morbid angel, this band makes them sound like a fucking church choir. And yet they dont seem to get anywhere near as much love as the rest, maybe they were ahead with their sound? Idk... i Just hope in the future that changes. Man i fucking love this band.

Suffocation are amazing. Saw them with Cryptopsy in 2005. Awesome show.

Back in the day at Milwaukees Metal Fest got to have a few beers with Hobbs, he's very cool, down to earth, was a great experience to meet him

He has inspired me to play guitar,over the years, I'm originally a drummer, what an amazing guy

Your interviews are excellent dude, you're a real one!! Thanks for doing these \m/ \m/

Their recording at Brutal Assault is unbelievably good, it's so tight and I constantly have to remind myself that it's live

Well done greetings from TEXAS!

Mike Smith didn't play on Pierced From Within - that was Doug Bohn.

The new live album sounds killer! i wished they would have done a live blu-ray or dvd also, Great interview!

Thank´s for this PODCAST is pretty SICK!

Great interview.

I just came accross this. Awesome interview with a legend. Subbed.

Fantastic

Right on. FJB!

Going to catch Suffocation again real soon in Cardiff, train strikes permitting 🙄😁

Cool guy, smart questions too.

Legend

This is smart man and very very underrated guitar player

May be an unpopular opinion but I prefer Closing of a Chapter to the new live album. Both are fantastic for their own reasons tho.

Nice vid...but can't believe there is a band photo without Frank in it at the beginning?!!??!?! Why??!!!!

Terrance is criminally underrated and under appreciated

Based Hobbs

HI TERRANCE YOUR MY FAVORITE GYTARIST SUFFOCATION BEST BAN TO ME FROM AFAR HOPE MIKE SMITH WIL BE BACK BECOSE ITS LIKE IF FRINK MOLLEN OR YOU ARE NOT THERE TO ME I ALREDY PLAYED WITH KATAKLYSM IN 2003 TO 2005 THANKYOU TO WATCH MY DRUM SOLLOS IF YOU HAVE THE TIME CHEERS BRO!!!

Portal is amazing.

>death metal godfather >Mixed race >All American >Huge stoner Yeah I'm thinking he's down as fuck. I need to get high with Uncle Terrance like, now.

Mike Smith didn't play the drums on pierced from within,it was Doug Bohn