Comments on: Cryptopsy – Cryptopsy

By: Biff_Tannen

Biff_Tannen — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:15:15 +0000

This is the absolute worst vocalist I’ve ever heard in my fucking life.

By: Diggedy

Diggedy — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:02:44 +0000

I finally was able to hear the whole thing, and IMO the second half of the album, where Cryptopsy goes the more pummeling route, is killer vintage Cryptopsy. The first half is somewhat conventional-sounding to me, or maybe it just took that long for the sting of “Unspoken King” to finally wear off.

By: jerry

jerry — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:12:13 +0000

as far as i know, levasseur wrote almost everything on Once Was Not aside from that boner song they made a video for. too bad the skullet chump guitar player recorded everything on it so it sounds like a sack of bees.

By: E. Thomas

E. Thomas — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:05:03 +0000

Im digging this- got a bit of whisper supremacy vibe with the chaos. Mcgachy is fine on this too.

By: Diggedy

Diggedy — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:50:36 +0000

Levasseur leaving was the problem with both Once Was Not and The Unspoken King. He was the brains behind Cryptopsy’s “no rules” approach. The tunes I’ve heard off of this seem to pick right up where And Then You’ll Beg left off and I can’t wait to hear the rest…although quite frankly I’d like to hear DiSalvo’s vocal approach over the music, the kid seems to have partially redeemed himself.

By: Staylow

Staylow — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 02:47:27 +0000

I’ve listened to this in it’s entirety once thus far, and I dig it. Never been much of a fan prior though.

By: Nick Taxidermy

Nick Taxidermy — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:14:57 +0000

I was just astonished with their last release. completely horrified.

By: Cynicgods

Cynicgods — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:34:58 +0000

I will never take Cryptopsy seriously again unless they get rid of McGachy. I dunno, he might be a nice guy but I just can’t stand his voice at all. I’ll still give this a fair shake but I don’t expect my opinion to change.

By: gabaghoul

gabaghoul — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:17:58 +0000

“Unfocused and unstructured is kinda Cryptopsy’s MO.”

Precisely why this band has never clicked with me.

By: AARONIUS

AARONIUS — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:14:12 +0000

I think this album will get reviews like this no matter what.

Metal fans are just too snobby.

They tried to experiment with their last album (and I’ll admit a lot of it didn’t work), so with this one they decide they’ll go back to their “roots” and get all death metall-y again. Now they aren’t experimental enough.

It’s pretty hilarious.

I’m kind of interested to hear that there seems to be a lack of focus or structure in these songs, I mean we’ve all heard the albums with Lord Worm on them right?

Unfocused and unstructured is kinda Cryptopsy’s MO.

By: Noch

Noch — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:02:52 +0000

I agree completely with your comments on their lack of focus/structure and the need to put in a ton more work. I remember popping this one in and going ”they’re trying too fucking hard – brutal for the sake of brutal, but it doesn’t make one lick of sense except for some timid moments on the record that have brill melody” my review would pretty much express the very same thing in a different way. Nice work.