Cryptopsy: None so vile.

Cryptopsy: None so vile.

Released 1996

A follow up to Cryptopsy's first album, none so vile is seen as one of the best pieces of death metal created. Whenever discussions break out on the internet about what are the best metal albums of all time this album always rears its head.

Cryptopsy's style of death metal on none so vile is a schizophrenic maze that at stages borders on grindcore. Rhythmically violent none so vile takes strides in technicality from its predecessor Blasphemy Made Flesh in all areas and launches Cryptopsy into a technical death metal space. Unlike most of the modern technical death metal none so vile isn't endless shredding and trying to be as "technical as fuck".

The songs, the riffs and the structure are chaotic and burn themselves into your memory,but have a strong narrative structure.The drums fit into the songs structures and feel like they belong unlike some bands where it feels like generic patterns have been inserted under the guitars.The vocal delivery is rich and varies throughout the length of each song. Lord worm's writing should also be mentioned. His lyrics are some of the most unusual lyrics I have ever heard in my 10 years of listening to the genre.  Such as this extract from "Phobophile":

" In the kitchen
With a screaming triple amputee...
Its completion depends solely
On my needs...
Said amputee's stumps
Are my way of saying... "Thank you
Just for being you."
Its fear tastes better than its limbs. "

The production of this album is great the range of the album. When listening to the album you never lose track of any instruments. The smoothness of the production adds another reason of why the album succeeds and feels so refined. In the end I think this is what technical death metal should be. Technical, yet strong and have unique style unlike generic "me to" technical death ,metal of the modern era.

Cryptospy's none so vile: 98%

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