In closing I'll say this: if it turns out I missed the memo that my opinion is completely wrong and Cryptopsy are a legitimate deathcore band now, then as far as I'm concerned they're still among the elite in their genre, and it will be a long time before anyone eclipses them. 0. Album opener Worship Your Demons immediately displays that Cryptopsy have lost none of the edge that albums such as None So Vile had, with its ultra technical guitar work that is up there with the best, and the vocal work is breathtaking. These are all words and phrases that could be accurately used to describe Cryptopsy’s latest effort, The Unspoken King. Fortunately the keyboards are practically unnoticeable. - USA: June 24th His vocals are fairly varied, but always complete balls. The bass sounds mallcorish, and there are nearly zero solos on the record. Go to page 1, 2 Next. But then after yet another fucking breakdown towards the end, the fucking thing returns. The Unspoken King is the sixth studio album of the Canadian death metal band Cryptopsy. The solo in "Leach" is probably the most impressive out of the lot, although for me, it rivals "Resurgence of an Empire" for the top spot. Whatever you'd expect from a deathcore band; clanky typewriter bass drums, heavily saturated guitar sounds that tend to have this weird phasing quality that makes it sound a little like you miked up the guitar cab with a paper towel roll thing attached to it, (I'm not trying to be harsh, that's just what it sounds like to me) bass is super trebly and quiet in the mix. The most consistent of said fellow Canadian modern death metal genre benders’ knockoff songs is “Leach”, which mostly avoids the disorganized chaos of the deathcore metal sub-species and sounds like an actual song. Does any of this automatically make Cryptopsy a “deathcore” band? The Headsman has some crazy lead playing, and The Plagued is just a lesson in how to play ridiculously fast and still sound nearly perfect. The constant stop-start blasting has yet to progress from anything more than headache inducing and on top of the soulless guitar wanking that plagues most of the riffs on the album, it’s enough to cause even the sanest among us to develop itches under the wrist. This shift is characterized by the incorporation of metalcore elements such as breakdowns,. And of course, let's not forget their "response" track of "It's Dinner Time", a fun, creative way of turning their detractors on their heads and made not long after all the shit was thrown at them. Even after "Illud Divinum Insanus" by Morbid Angel came out, which is definitely a sorry excuse for an album, this album is still spoken of with much discontent. I can see how long-time Cryptopsy fans would be alienated by this album. One thing that I've learnt in my 9 or so years as a metal and music listener in general is that selling out isn't always as bad as it seems, as long as it's done right. You’d think copying successful bands would result in success, apparently not (I hear the record label send it out free along with orders from their website, or at least used to, that's how much it sucks). Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives Message board FAQ Search Register Login Am I the only one who likes Cryptopsy's "The Unspoken King"? Resurgence of an Empire. I always gave Cryptopsy's albums a chance because I've seen them live on a few occasions which gave me some sense of loyalty to not count them out entirely. I'm listening to a mallcore abortion with traces of deathcore thrown in just to piss off the old fans. This whole album is a drag to listen to; a grueling chore that I would only wish on my very worst enemies, and most of the time it's more boring than offensive, blending into the background like the harmless yelps of a tiny chihuahua nipping at your heels while you're trying to put the bacon on the stove in the morning. This is one of the few bands that deserves to lose points purely for the past. "The Unspoken King" must hold the record for the most maligned and loathed album ever created by a death metal band. 05. Beyond that, The Unspoken King seems like quite a lot of effort expended into a product that I can't imagine anyone wanting. 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. Because, musically speaking, “The Unspoken King” is not that far off from anything they’ve done since “None So Vile”. This whole album DRIPS of core kid propaganda through and through, and the worst offenders are the ones that are the most noticed. But once you hear it for yourself, it becomes pretty hard to look at purely for what the content it is, and trust me, when you feel personally about this album, the score gets lower. Even after hearing the band's prior albums first, I still dig this one quite a bit. His death metal voice is high and resembles the recent trend of death core bands. 09. Because aside from these minimal “new elements” (or "drawbacks", if you will) in their music, the rest of the album is Cryptopsy the way you would have expected them to play and sound at that point in their career. Almost a lazy attempt at selling out, there's no real attempt to be catchy and make things enjoyable and sugary for the first time listener; instead the band just forces its' formula (which in CF's case was getting quite tired at that point) into the style of music that's popular at the time. First, because I like the first two Cryptopsy albums best, and when Lord Worm returned for their 5th album, I figured it would be a triumphant return. “Worship your demons” takes the cake for being the lamest and most derivative deathcore song I’ve probably heard so far, and might qualify as a b-side to the “Doom” EP that I hope never crosses my ears again. The riffs are as crazily fast and hard to play as fans have come to expect, as The Headsman and The Plagued will show. One exception is the six and a half minute song, Bound Dead, which is also among the worst. A multitude of problems plague The Unspoken King and each deserves it’s own angry rant; starting with the vocals of Matt MaGachy. There are a few faster parts, but again, you pretty much get a selection of deathcore, and horrible deathcore, with odd piece of technical death metal thrown about, but you could count to occurrences on your hands. “Bemoan the martyr” and “The Plagued” are the worst of the clean vocal songs, sounding half JPAC and half Bullet for my Valentine. "Worship Your Demons" I agree, the clean singing is out of place and does not belong in this band. I might vouch that this album's situation is very unique and suffers from an effect that could be coined the "The Unspoken King Effect", if you're the kind of person that likes discussing metal whilst pretending to be a scientist or something. As soon as ANY trace of mallcore appears in your music, you might as well tuck your nuts inwards, return your metalhead license, and leave the fucking hall. At this point the formula has gotten desperately tedious. I haven't heard a drum sound that bad since Malevolent Creation's Doomsday X, which almost makes me sad. It's poppy and full of short, ridiculously catchy songs. Fortunately, there are some mildly solid songs here that prevent me from rating The Unspoken King as low as everyone else has, although their motives for flaming the album are unquestionable. Lord Worm was out of the picture, having quit after Once Was Not, and the band now had new vocalist Matt McGachy and keyboardist Maggie Durand on the team. Everyone should boycott this album as vengeance for the destruction of a once treasured icon of the extreme metal scene. As if they knew what they were doing was wrong, and didn't want anybody to know, like a 15 year old boy tying to masturbate in the room adjacent to his sleeping parents. The guitar work to this album is every bit as technical as past efforts with the addition of solos that actually sound decent, instead of the random sweep picking found on previous releases. The riffs are generally fairly simple (for Cryptopsy) during the faster parts, but are just downright embarrassing for the breakdowns. They can be used subtly to great effect (Soilwork's Natural Born Chaos), but here they are nearly 100% arbitrary. This is easily the most bizarre case of "selloutitis" I've ever witnessed, only being second to Nocturnal Rites' far fall from grace at about this exact same time last year, with a once respectable Death Metal band ditching a large portion of their Deathy influences in favor for a quasi-modern songwriting style that does nothing but give me a migraine. I may as well start on vocals though. The lyrics are a mixed bag. In either case, the vocals just don't work for this style of music. I find this to be an interesting opinion. Even though this album is nothing new, they still managed to be very boring and excruciatingly unoriginal. On, The Unspoken King though, even the drumming has been sacrificed. Rated #1543 in the best albums of 2008. 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