After 30 years, CRYPTOPSY are no strangers to the spotlight. Since their ungentle exhumation from the Canadian underground in 1993, the Montreal natives have worn the horned crown as the most vile band in death metal.
Their upcoming ninth album and first since winning a JUNO Award embodies the many malicious mutations that have defined their Hall of Fame discography. But while infectious, the latest single from An Insatiable Violence brutally illustrates that society’s viral takeover isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
“‘Dead Eyes Replete’ is one of the most brutal songs on our new album”, vocalist Matt McGachy says. “It reaches into the depths of the sordid world of YouTube child stars and how parents rob them of their youth and innocence all in the name of greed”.
Watch the lyric video for “Dead Eyes Replete below.
An Insatiable Violence comes out June 20 on Season of Mist.
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The concept for Cryptopsy’s upcoming new album appeared to vocalist Matt McGachy in an eerily prescient dream. But the latest single from An Insatiable Violence was inspired by the real life horrors of kidfluencing. “Nurture the chosen one“, McGachy barks, opening “Dead Eyes Replete” with his freshly groomed death growls.
“We’ve played at least 140 shows since our last album”, he says, “and all those reps have helped me deepen and darken my false chord screams”.
Just like a doe-eyed YouTuber is pounced upon by wolves waiting hungrily in the comment section, “Dead Eyes Replete” opens in unfiltered, all caps, attack mode. As Christian Donaldson bends his frets like a spotlight operator who’s gone haywire, Flo Mounier rolls out carpet-bombing blasts beats with blinding precision. “Since our last album, I’ve developed new techniques that allow us to go even faster”, says Mounier. His controlled chaos is still the force that binds Cryptopsy’s bloodlust, though he managed to raise the eyebrows of their in-house producer. Blink and you may miss it, but lurking within the song’s stuffed sockets is a trampling fill that resembles another powerhouse.
“I love John Bonham’s playing”, Mounier says. “I told Chris that we were leaving that part in there. It’s the closest we’re ever going to come to sounding like Led Zeppelin”.
During death metal’s initial spike in popularity, Cryptopsy quickly staked their claim as the scene’s most brutal band of technicians. They never stop knifing between surgical tempo changes and filthy hooks, but An Insatiable Violence gouges deeper into the lascivious grooves that won them last year’s Canadian Grammy for best Metal/Hard Music Album. “Beware the spotlight” McGachy flashes with his signature bat-like shriek just before bassist Oli Pinnard slams “Dead Eyes Replete” shut with a career-best breakdown.
The video for “Dead Eyes Replete” was created by B2crea.
Tracklist:
1. The Nimis Adoration (4:10)
2. Until There’s Nothing Left (3:59)
3. Dead Eyes Replete (3:57)
4. Fools Last Acclaim (3:26)
5. The Art of Emptiness (4:16)
6. Our Great Deception (4:21)
7. Embrace the Nihility (3:50)
8. Malicious Needs (5:52)
Total runtime 32:04
Country: Canada
Genre: Brutal/Technical Death Metal
“Martin did None So Live, but he never really got to do a proper album”, Cryptopsy says about the artwork for their new album. “His art is amazing. The two pieces of his that we used for An Insatiable Violence are incredible. His family was super excited about it, too. We are honored to have him be an even bigger part of Cryptopsy’s lore”.
More praise for Cryptopsy:
“…one of the best technical death metal bands of all time” – New Noise
“…it might be the closest thing that the non-classical, non-jazz world has to high-culture music” – VICE
“…no surprise, Flo Mounier is completely on his game, as he displays his fierce, inhuman drumming” – Exclaim!
“…a must-have for any extreme metal fan’s collection” – Metal Hammer
“…would come to define technical brutal death metal” – Angry Metal Guy
“…had the packed room going absolutely bonkers with circle pits, regular pits, and crowd surfing” – Brooklyn Vegan
“…you’re gonna wanna windmill, but then you’ll be humming some of those riffs later” – Metal Injection
“Cryptopsy brings the old sickness back” – Metal Sucks
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