Cryptopsy are a band that I have been really into for a couple years now and this is an album that I personally consider a death metal classic. However Cryptopsy is also a band that has disappointed a lot of people through various times in their career with strange musical direction changes. The most recent of these changes being the addition of their latest singer and new addition of a keyboard player on their latest album 'The Unspoken King' and adopting a less technical and more deathcore oriented sound, but lets not think about that and let it ruin an amazing album. 'None So Vile' was the release that put Cryptopsy on the map as a leading force in the 'brutal death metal' and 'technical death metal' genres, the combination of Lord Worm's gutteral vocals and Flo Mournier's immense speed and heavily technical drumming helped put this band into the ranks of bands like Suffocation and Gorguts in terms of technicality, while still keeping the groove in a death metal sense. This album has some of my favorite death metal riffs, drum beats and vocal lines, the drumming is the stand out thing for me and it heavily influenced the way I played death metal and still does influence the way I play drums as a whole. But you really can't go past the brutal and still groovy riffs on this album that I think is the main thing that has kept this album a favorite of mine for so long. Stand out tracks on this album for me are, 'Slit Your Guts', 'Graves of The Fathers', 'Benedictine Convulsions' and 'Orgiastic Disembowelment'.
I recommend this album for any fan of death metal, deathcore or just heavy music with wickedly catchy groove to it, and for people who want to be astounded by amazingly fast, technical and catchy drumming. I can not stress how good some of the riffs on this album are, it still shocks me and annoys me as I'm sure it does many others, that the band has turned from this groundbreaking and heavily influential ensemble into something that I would now consider boring and generic. However not every band can be good forever, and will probably release something boring throughout their career, lets just hope this low point for them ends soon and they can go back to being amazing at what they do best and write 'None So Vile' pt. 2.
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I had a pretty sweet weekend of dancing and hanging out with friends, it was awesome to relax and just enjoy my time off uni, which I'm trying to spend a lot of time doing this break. Ive been feeling pretty lame of late due to a few different reasons but mainly due to the fact that a very big loss I experienced not long ago is having its 2nd anniversary in a few days and its just one of those things that I never think about in a bad light until this time of year. It sucks but thats the way the world works.
Slowburn are trying a new bass player out tonight and I'm excited to see how it goes, to the same token I hate that one of my best friends is moving away and cant be in my band anymore as Pete is an amazing bass player and musician in general and it will be pretty weird working with someone else on the new songs which he helped write. I really hope that at some point later in life I get to work with him in a musical sense again, maybe play some jazz or something.
Brooke also alerted me to the fact that I make massively long and condensed blog posts, so Brooke I hope this one is just as long and just as astoundingly interesting as my previous posts. It was good seeing you on the weekend as well buddy!
More soon,
-aaron
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