04/15/2025 18:41

Cryptopsy

Cryptopsy: new album 'An Insatiable Violence' out in June

A person spends all day building a machine, only for it to torture them at night. As if this thought wasn't malicious enough, they enjoy it. In fact, they enjoy being tortured so much that, come morning, they wake up rejuvenated, eager to tweak their creation until it runs perfectly in their mind.

This is the waking nightmare that inspired the upcoming ninth full-length album from Canada's technical and brutal death metal band Cryptopsy. "The concept for our new album came to me in a dream. When I woke up, I immediately wrote the title down on my phone", vocalist Matt McGachy says before adding, "Because, you know, we all have to have our phones with us all the time."

While an eerie mirror image of society's latest brain rotting obsession, 'An Insatiable Violence' is influenced by the many mutations that have come to define Cryptopsy's hall of fame discography. On their new album, the JUNO Award winners continue to push death metal to even more blasphemous extremes.

Track listing:
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)

Inspired by a mukbang gone horribly wrong, ravenous opener 'The Nimis Adoration' is a smorgasbord of gut-busting blasts, Christian Donaldson's fishhook riffs and a heavy helping of pit-pleasing groove. Cryptopsy recognize that not every brutal technical death metal band sticks around long enough to win a Canadian Grammy 30 years into their career.

The cover for 'An Insatiable Violence' was created by the late, great Martin Lacroix, who would growl with unholy delight over the freshly fetid depths of McGachy's false chord scream. Another former vocalist returns on 'Embrace the Nihility' to stomp out any whispering doubts of his supremacy. But despite having claimed the crown as the most vile band in death metal on only their second stab in the studio, Cryptopsy are still pushing the limits of extremity.

The album's lead single bumps and grinds to the oddball bounce of Olivier Pinard's gruesome bass slaps - and yet, at its core 'Until There's nothing Left' stakes its claim as Cryptopsy's biggest earworm. Even Flo Mounier – who literally wrote the book on extreme metal drumming – has honed new techniques to keep the blasphemy of 'An Insatiable Violence' fresh. For its finishing move, 'Malicious Needs' slithers to a crawl before ascending like a bat into a blackened cloud of smoke. Bow to the new vileness from extreme metal royalty.

An Insatiable Violence comes out June 20 on Season of Mist.

(source: Season Of Mist)