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90
Too much audile chaos to process for many listeners, Cryptopsy nevertheless comes back to form in 2012 and rewards their fans, proving that sometimes the self-titled rebooting edict has cred.
4y
75
This is not the best tech death of the year or Cryptopsy's best, but it doesn't need to be. Cryptopsy needed to once again prove that they could make some tech death that they as a group could be proud of and that statement rings through loud and clear.
6y
60
Cryptopsy is a both a good and terrible album. It is another chapter in the history of a genre someone else is now better at writing, and it’s at the same time a transitional work: we now know how they sound and how we don’t want their music to be.
3y
It's genuinely a very good album, a pleasant surprise. As it is with cryptopsy's work after Once Was Not, it's overproduced but the songwriting is genuinely very good and while it doesn't come close to Whisper Supremacy, it's a good take on tech death. It's pretty generic and samey at times but being this short it's not a big issue
Once again, cryptopsy releases an alright album that pales in comparison to their early work. But I think if you look at this album on its own this is still pretty good. While not as brutal and unforgiving as previous release it still captures that classic sound.
actually i liked this a lot. maybe it’s because of The Unspoken King’s quality already setting my standards, but this sounds like a proper “Cryptopsy” record now. the vocals aren’t absolutely awful and the riffs are actual REAL death metal instead of false melodic deathcore. it feels like Cryptopsy finally getting it’s brutal charm back (even if this is primarily a tech death record over anything).
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Track List
| 1 | Two-Pound Torch 5:03 | 86 |
| 2 | Shag Harbour's Visitors 4:21 | 84 |
| 3 | Red-Skinned Scapegoat 5:57 | 90 |
| 4 | Damned Draft Dodgers 3:57 | 86 |
| 5 | Amputated Enigma 4:02 | 85 |
| 6 | The Golden Square Mile 3:12 | 86 |
| 7 | Ominous 3:46 | 85 |
| 8 | Cleansing the Hosts 4:35 | 86 |
Total Length: 34 minutes
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4mo
weird low score because this is easily one of their best albums, can’t beat any of the first three but might be one of the best after all of that.