Pierced from Within is an album released in 1995 by the technical death metal

Technical death metal

Technical death metal is a musical subgenre of death metal that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures. Technical experimentation in death metal began in the late '80s and early '90s by bands such as Death, Atheist and Cynic...

 band Suffocation

Suffocation (band)

Suffocation is an American death metal band that was formed in 1989 in Long Island, New York. The band comprises vocalist Frank Mullen, guitarists Terrance Hobbs and Guy Marchais, drummer Mike Smith and bassist Derek Boyer. Suffocation rose to prominence of death metal and created a blueprint for...

. "Synthetically Revived" is a re-recording of the song of the same name from the Human Waste

Human Waste

Human Waste is Suffocation's debut EP released by Relapse Records.This was also the first CD ever to be released by Relapse. "Infecting The Crypts", "Mass Obliteration",and "Jesus Wept" were re-recorded on the following album, Effigy of the Forgotten...

EP and "Breeding the Spawn" is a re-recording of the title track from the band's previous album.

Both this album and Effigy of the Forgotten

Effigy of the Forgotten

-Personnel:Suffocation*Frank Mullen: All Vocals*Doug Cerrito: Lead & Rhythm Guitars*Terrance Hobbs: Lead & Rhythm Guitars*Josh Barohn: Bass*Mike Smith: DrumsProduction*Produced, Engineered & Mixed By Scott Burns*Mastered By Eddy SchreyerGuest Musicians...

have been re-released by Roadrunner Records as part of the Two from the Vault series.

This is the only full-length album by Suffocation not to feature Mike Smith as a drummer.

Track listing

• All Songs Written By Suffocation except where noted.

Personnel

Suffocation

• Frank Mullen
  Frank Mullen
  Frank Mullen, is the vocalist of New York death metal band Suffocation, and met fellow band mates Mike Smith and Terrance Hobbs in high school. He is recognized to be among the first to bring low-pitched vocals in death metal...
  
   - vocals
• Terrance Hobbs
  Terrance Hobbs
  Terrance Hobbs is the lead guitarist in the New York Death Metal band Suffocation. Hobbs has been a constant member in the band since their first released title Reincremated along with band mates Frank Mullen and Mike Smith, who all met in high school...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Doug Bohn - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Doug Cerrito
  Doug Cerrito
  Doug Cerrito is an American guitar player best known as the guitarist for New York death metal band Suffocation from 1990 until their split in 1998....
  
   - guitar
• Chris Richards - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  

Production

• Guest co-lyrics for "Torn into Enthrallment" by Lee Harrison (Monstrosity
  Monstrosity (band)
  Monstrosity is a death metal band originating from Fort Lauderdale, Florida during the death metal scene of the early 1990s. Vocalist, George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher and drummer, Lee Harrison, were the founders of Monstrosity. Harrison had just left the band Malevolent Creation and George Fisher...
  
  )
• Produced by Scott Burns & Suffocation
  Suffocation (band)
  Suffocation is an American death metal band that was formed in 1989 in Long Island, New York. The band comprises vocalist Frank Mullen, guitarists Terrance Hobbs and Guy Marchais, drummer Mike Smith and bassist Derek Boyer. Suffocation rose to prominence of death metal and created a blueprint for...
  
  
• Engineered and mixed by Scott Burns
• Assistant engineer: Dave Welner
• Recorded and mixed at Morrisound Recording, Tampa, FL, USA
• Mastered by Mike Fuller at Fullersound, Miami, FL, USA
• Cover Art: Hiro Takahashi