{"id":8024,"date":"2012-11-12T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=8024"},"modified":"2013-06-01T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T16:06:11","slug":"album-review-cryptopsy-the-best-of-us-bleed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-cryptopsy-the-best-of-us-bleed\/","title":{"rendered":"CRYPTOPSY – The Best Of Us Bleed (2012) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

CRYPTOPSY
The Best Of Us Bleed<\/strong><\/span>
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\nCentury Media (2012)<\/span>
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The ever hideous and extreme Cryptopsy have returned with another skin-shredder of a record. Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s finest have collated 32 tracks on this two-disc compilation \u2013 including a batch of live cuts, rehearsals and three new songs \u2013 to bang your already flayed head to.<\/p>\n

For those unfamiliar with the technical barrage of this bunch of ungodly heroes, then be warned, this is no slow motion chug fest. Instead, you\u2019ll be (mis)treated with a gory mass of jarring intensity that refuses to let up once you\u2019re in its tangled web.<\/p>\n

When at their slowest, the Canadian band are still hellish. \u2018Silence The Tyrants\u2019 provides the occasional mid-tempo chug, but it rarely lasts, and for the most part a track of this ilk is stained by hyper drums, harsh vocal screams and rasps, and sonic guitars that can best be described as schizophrenic in their demented approach. This is death metal taken to the extreme.<\/p>\n

Cryptopsy are a wonderfully complex monster, that only exist to bewilder and batter. \u2018The Headsmen\u2019, \u2018Carrionshine\u2019, \u2018We Bleed\u2019 and \u2018Endless Cemetary\u2019 all go for throat, but in differing ways. The latter has a more darker, classic death metal approach until it reaches its bizarre mid-section of quacking vocal shrieks and twisted arrangements. \u2018The Headsman\u2019 is immediately more rampant on the senses; an obliterating track featuring blast-beast drums and more wretched vocals.<\/p>\n

This band isn\u2019t just heavy, they provide a soundscape that refuses to settle \u2013 combining awkward rhythms and ultra-fast pounding, solos flailing, cavorting, mood shifting, jarring and above all intricate horrors all delivered to the maximum of extremity.<\/p>\n

\u2018Holodomor\u2019 is a nightmarish frenzy of grating guitars and guttural growls; a track that jerks the blood and shakes the soul. \u2018Worship Your Demons\u2019 features some stunning machine gun drums and juddering bass-lines, and \u2018A Graceful Demise\u2019 is just as unkind in its approach, a face-ripping, bone-breaking that only slows some 90-seconds in, with the vocals taking on demonic proportions as the guitars grind the sinews. It\u2019s all very hellish stuff.<\/p>\n

Take your pick from any of these tracks, and whether it\u2019s the gurgled chaos of \u2018Voices Of Unreason\u2019 or the manic complexity of \u2018White Worms\u2019, one thing is sure with Cryptopsy; they aren\u2019t here to play nicely.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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