Cryptopsy - Cryptopsy
Cryptopsy doesn’t kick enough ass. That’s my general feeling about this whole album. I’ve listened to it about eight times in a row, and each time this is how I feel. Their style is very technical but totally lacking in brutality. When I listen to Death Metal, I want it to kick my ass. This album is slick, polished and generic. It also lacks any sort of heaviness. It’s Death Metal for the Hot Topic set. I’m not saying that this doesn’t have merit. It’s got some moments of greatness, particularly in the guitar soloing, but those moments are fleeting. The music was overly complicated and anti-memorable. After this album was over, I couldn’t recall one song. I don’t think I could remember one riff even if my life depended on it. I kept waiting for Cryptopsy to stop with the hyper-technical riffing and oddball song structures and just cave my skull in. Sadly, that never happened and I had to pull out a Behemoth album to get the kind of mayhem and destruction that I wanted from Death Metal music. Listening to Cryptopsy reinforced my opinion that Technical and Progressive Death Metal are abominations. They’re all navel-gazing technicality and devoid of the darkness, aggression and brutality that drew me to Death Metal in the first place, just like this album.
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