Despise the Sun

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{{Infobox album

| name = Despise the Sun

| type = EP

| artist = Suffocation

| cover = DespisetheSun.jpg

| alt =

| released = January 6, 1998{{Cite news |last=Takuff |first=Johnathan |date=January 6, 1998 |title=New Tunes In Store Today |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EPRYAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA9 |newspaper=The Vindicator |page=B10}}

| recorded = 1997

| venue =

| studio = Cove City Sound Studios, New York City, New York, U.S.

| genre = Brutal death metal, technical death metal

| length = 16:34

| label = Vulture (re-release on Relapse)

| producer = Scott Burns, Suffocation

| prev_title = Pierced from Within

| prev_year = 1995

| next_title = Souls to Deny

| next_year = 2004

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{Cite web |last=York |first=William |title=Despise the Sun - Suffocation |website=AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/despise-the-sun-mw0000048025 |access-date=2024-03-01 |language=en}}

| rev2 = Chronicles of Chaos

| rev2score = 9/10{{Cite web |last=Schwarz |first=Paul |date=May 7, 1998 |title=CoC : Suffocation - Despise the Sun : Review |url=http://chroniclesofchaos.com/articles.aspx?id=2-870 |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=Chronicles of Chaos}}

| rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book|editor-last=Larkin|editor-first=Colin|editor-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2006|publisher=MUZE |volume=7 |edition=4th|isbn=978-0-19-531373-4|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music |page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofpo0007unse/page/826 827] |chapter=Suffocation}}

}}

Despise the Sun is an EP by American death metal band Suffocation, released on January 6, 1998. It was the last recording before Suffocation's breakup (and subsequent reformation in 2003), and the last to feature guitarist Doug Cerrito and bassist Chris Richards. It was the final album produced by Scott Burns, who had worked on Effigy of the Forgotten (1991) and Pierced from Within (1995), as he retired from the music industry after its recording in 1997.{{Cite book |last=Gehkle |first=David E. |title=The Scott Burns Sessions: A Life in Death Metal 1987–1997 |publisher=Decibel Books |year=2023 |isbn=979-889184521-3 |location=US |pages=421–424 |chapter=1997}} The EP was reissued on April 30, 2002 through Relapse Records.{{Cite magazine |last=Anon. |date=April 29, 2002 |title=Upcoming |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pB9ptdYiMrMC&dq=suffocation+despise+the+sun&pg=PA31 |magazine=CMJ New Music Report |volume=71 |issue=5 |page=31}}

The last track, "Catatonia", originally appeared on the Human Waste EP.

The sample placed at the beginning of "Funeral Inception" is from Kevin Spacey, said in the 1995 film The Usual Suspects.