The "tape a bunch of random riffs together" writing style is still in full effect on the heavy sections. I guess my reasoning for this decision, along with it being a moot point by now, is that this band isn't Cryptopsy anymore. Well, this isn't. Metal music is a guitar riff oriented style of music, I don’t care what sub-genre you play in, which rightly justifies any questions as to whether this music even qualifies as metal since riffs take the back seat to lung spewing gibberish and throwing a thousand notes or drum hits into every minute of sound space. Is it because there is a small amount of clean singing on this album? Yet for all the shortcomings I've been shedding light upon, it's within the sum of its better aspects that it doesn't complete cave in on itself with its misguided ambitions. Not just background music, but bad background music. The cupped-mic, bizarre vocal approach and overtly antagonistic lyrics are as far removed from traditional death metal as one could get (thought thankfully not shooting for pig squealing nonsense). But the problems run much deeper than those. The instrumentation. The same applies to The Plagued and Leach. The biggest success story here is easily the drumming. 08. His patterns are supremely complex, with some of the most insane fills in metal. The bass sounds mallcorish, and there are nearly zero solos on the record. All songs except for two are over four minutes. I'm not averse to Cryptopsy using synthesizers, as they made for an interesting orchestral excursion on the prior album, and I have no problem with synthesizers in general if they're adding atmosphere to the music. Avoid at all costs. - USA: June 24th I wish I could leave it at that but for your enjoyment and my own love of getting paid/masochism, I’ll review the whole thing. Where are the hundreds of little children that go missing by the day? This album is definitely an easier listen than their prior releases. Even if they managed to return to the roots on the next album (you know as well as I do that won't happen), this is unforgivable. Thankfully, the use of keyboards is sparse on the album, seldom used to add atmosphere in suitable segments. Their earlier albums had a few things going for them, and the whole tech-death metal thing is fine in and of itself, but they just didn't wholly interest me or draw me in. She plays for a total of roughly 20 seconds on the whole album, yet they have her upfront for most of the marketing photos. Anonyme. As another whinging metalcore chorus in Leach (sounding like Alice in Chains minus irony or talent, sort of like the chorus in Sickman) drones ineffectually these comments appear even more laughable. Honestly, I had an overwhelming desire to, like a bored monkey, fling my verbal faeces at this band and mess up their nicely styled hairdos, thus putting them in their place. The drumming here doesn't really vary from anything else Cryptopsy has done. This is coming from as open a set of ears as possible, believe you me. CM 8495-2; CD). That is not an exaggeration. This album's release is like going to a restaurant to get steak and getting a steak that looks like steak, smells a little off but then tastes like fried chicken with hot wing sauce all over it. This is a creative Twilight Zone, in a way, not being creative in a good way, yet not being uncreative or unoriginal enough to warrant cries of "clone of (BAND XYZ)!!!1!" It's because she doesn't exist. The vocal tune at the beginning of Silence the Tyrants sounds similar to Cameo's Word Up, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was a rip-off. So, this is the infamous 'deathcore' record, yet Cryptopsy had been incorporating ingredients of that aesthetic bastardization as far back as the later 90s. Otherwise, who cares? Every once in a while, he attempts this punch worthy clean mallcore whining. The Unspoken is within you. To be fair, I know that if you compare this to the likes of "Blasphemy Made Flesh" and "Whisper Supremacy", this can be seen as a transparent cash-in to the deathcore scene. The riff isn't good anyway, but with those vocals it just sounds like Deftones with Cryptopsy production; not impressive. So, what is this replacement band like then? The album marks the debut of Matt McGachy as well as the first and only appearance on a Cryptopsy album by Maggie Durand, as well as the band's departure from the death metal genre. REALLY fucking awful. Not too pussified, nice. 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