Cryptopsy
None So Vile
[Wrong Again]


Wow, wWow, wow, and WOW!!!! I seriously doubt I'm the first (nor the last) to rave over this album, and because of this, you've probably heard what I'm about to say many times before, but I'd be more than happy to turn at least one more person onto this album. I'm not afraid to admit that this LP even surpasses the near godly "Blasphemy Made Flesh" created a fear ago by this very same band, and because of this, "None So Vile" hits the pinnacle on my all time favorite death list. It's hard to explain just how great the music on this release is (thus, buy the thing!!) but I'll do my best. Musically the band is hyper fast, filled with loose sounding yet crunchy guitars and bass (the bass here can actually be heard...it's not just a pulse, but an actual part of the music..and even takes the lead in some areas) sections, diverse and very technical drum's and some of the finest riffs in the genre. Amazing solo's fill every song, the drums move and roll at unthinkable speeds...and then there's the vocals. Lord Worm's belches, grunts and high pitched screeches (which remind me of the three or so screams found on Cannibal Corpses "Tome of the Mutilated" album) simply blow me away in their brutality...the vocals here aren't the easiest to listen to, and thus are obviously being made available to people who like their death metal brutal. But the way they end up flowing with the music is simply mind-blowing...one second your hearing the deepest grunts imaginable, and the next second Lord Worm is belting out some of the most evil sounding and high pitched screams thought possible. And as usual, the lyrics are the best. Read such sections as "they'll crawl in their perdition, the righteous will be lost, where gutted angels lie fucked, beneath the funeral cross" or "Rorschach blotters, my responses to which inspire fear...from my lizard side, the amoral alien speaks: these aren't butterflies, I see a face I'd like to burn". Standout tracks are the unthinkably brutal opener "Crown of Horns" (with one of the best brief intro's I've ever heard), the up-beat and morbidly brutal sounding "Phobophile" (which opens with a piano ala Necrotic Mutation and showcases Flo's drumming) and the vocally insane "Graves of the Fathers". "None So Vile" surpasses being simply amazing, it's leaves me in total awe in respect to the brutality, amazing riffs, and violently original vocals found within it's half-hour period.


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