I'd argue that the redemption already happened with their self-titled album. But hell, Cryptopsy doesn't need to be redeemed for anyone. And their Book Of Suffering EPs were solid AF! I can't wait to sink my teeth into this album and spend the evening listening to it. Gods damn, Riley, please do more reviews, love seeing you promote Canadian bands!!!!

Their self titled was a great return to form. Their tome 1 ep is some of their best stuff ever released. But this album is a nice addition to their discography. It’s a grower but one I can see that I’ll love in time

The chaos of Cryptopsy has always been hard to digest for someone who hasn't heard them before. This album is easier to sink in but its still a really fantastic album.

@AnEvolvingApe

10 ай бұрын

I don't know what she's talking about when she claims there is plenty of groove. It grooves for maybe 4 bars before going into blast beats or some other swarm of bees sound. This is the kind of death metal I don't enjoy. I prefer death metal with ACTUAL groove like Abysmal Dawn who they happen to be touring with at the moment.

@rebelshred

9 ай бұрын

@@AnEvolvingApe get what you mean, like i said it can be hard to digest. might have been about a decade of listening on and off before i finally really dig their stuff. very chaotic but technical.

@AnEvolvingApe

9 ай бұрын

@@rebelshred I am not partial to blast beats but I happen to like bands that use them a lot like Nile. I know I'm probably contradicting myself but I like blast beats when the composition works them into the groove. Cryptopsy seems to me like they are the cusp of something great (for my listening palate) but then they go off on the chaos and it doesn't work for me. I'm still going to see them live next week (first time) so I'm curious to know how that experience is going to affect my opinion.

I can't say it enough but we need more reviews from Riley!!!

@marcusgend1

10 ай бұрын

Why?

@JamesParatiiArts

10 ай бұрын

because she is awesome!@@marcusgend1

@Never_Compromise

9 ай бұрын

@@marcusgend1 Simps like to slap the ham

This album is phenomenal, i hope it blows up to something huge.

Great review. The drumming on this record was the standout for me on the first listen, its absolutely insane.

Can't wait to pick this one up! Thanks for the awesome review!

Thank you for saying that Matt is not Lord worm and that he does a good fucking job I get so fucking sick of people trying to compare him against Lord worm lol

@JamesParatiiArts

10 ай бұрын

Im sure he does too!

@Menoetius.

10 ай бұрын

@@JamesParatiiArts you're probably absolutely right, with him it's probably just another case of "I have to ignore the hate comments and take the good for the good" I find it unfortunate that cryptopsy fans are so segregated

I love your review! I’m excited about the album, but I understand what you mean about production. I’ll probably order it anyway.

Ordered it today! Nice review 🤘🏻

Riley, you have this youthful enthusiasm in each of your reviews that makes me a listener want to check out any album you review even if I'm not a fan of it. That being said, I love None So Vile, and I've been able to see Cryptospy twice, once with Matt and before that once with Lord Worm. The Lord Worm show was awesome because the performances of Crown of Horns, Slit Your Guts and Graves of the Fathers were batshit insane in the best way. This show was also special because I had an opportunity to have supper (pizza) and chat with Lord Worm, and he is one of the most fascinating people I've ever talked to. I was and still am not a fan of the Unspoken King, but seeing Matt's live performances of newer material and his takes on the classics was incredible. Both shows were some of the craziest pits I've been a part of as well. As for releases, I have to shout out Black pestilence from Calgary, some awesome death/thrash with a tinge of grindcore. On the mellower side, I'm really enjoying Ice Giant's album Ghost of Humanity. It is a beautiful mix of clean and harsh vocals, symphonic elements and great melodic death metal riffs.

More Riley reviews please!

@robertl.wilson1199

9 ай бұрын

Nah

This is a good follow-up to the EP's and 2012's album. I'll have to spin this one a few more times and see if it grows on me. I absolutely love the self-titled 2012 album. That was such a gutsy return to craziness, it'll be hard for this one to take its place. Thankfully the writing is a little different than the Book of Suffering EP's. This is kinda darker, more focused writing and riffing. And Matt's lows are really awesome here. I love the vocals in general. He's really nailed it I think.

@owlsnvodka4315

10 ай бұрын

It's growing on me but things like the short elevator music break in Damn Draft Dodgers that'll keep the self-tiled album on top lol

@Jakster840

10 ай бұрын

@@owlsnvodka4315 Excellent song.

@cmd_f5

10 ай бұрын

@@owlsnvodka4315 Agreed, awesome song!

Great review👏 I'll definitely be checking the album out☠

Great review! Going to pitch a BangerTV branded chunk of ballistic gel. For stabbing! :D

I love your review, its so convincing, I love a lot of DM

Great review señorita 😎

The squeaky clean, robotic production is the barrier to entry with tech death for me, so this should be right up my alley!

@Kaosad69

9 ай бұрын

I agree, clean production doesn't suit a lot of extreme metal and uneven production really amplifies some of the great underground metal releases.

@dan_the_pathmaster7934

8 ай бұрын

The production on this album is the epitome of squeaky clean and robotic

Too gritty? Totally see the opposite, it sounds modern and overproduced. The drums are just...ugh....i love that organic sound of none so vile

@notplagueknight

10 ай бұрын

What is overproduced here? It's just modern production, I like none so vile and blasphemy but your "organic" sound is just the band worked with what they had at the time, and drums are the same as they have been

@KMKimo

10 ай бұрын

@@notplagueknight if you think the snare drum sounds the same i cant help you

@notplagueknight

10 ай бұрын

@@KMKimo wow the snare doesn't sounds the same you really did a gotcha on me there, I'm talking about drumming style, sure the sound of the snare is not the same but it's still flo style of drumming

@KMKimo

10 ай бұрын

@@notplagueknight style is not production. We are confusing two things. Flo is a phenomenal drummer.

@notplagueknight

10 ай бұрын

@@KMKimo I see what you meant I thought you were talking about those things separately but I still think this new album is interesting and just get shit cause bands don't sounds like they used to

Rileys reviews often ends up costing me money :D

@robertl.wilson1199

9 ай бұрын

You on her onlyfans or something? What does that even mean 😅

Cant stop listening to this album

The chaos of this record is unrivalled. This was a good digest for me, as a drummer it just made me want to go and smash the shit out of the kit! Meat and potatoes, and this weighs on the spuds side of things which is what I yearn for in modern metal. Please, please, please review Blut Aus Nord's latest part two of Disharmonium - Nahab....will you make it back from the abyss??

Totally agree. Cryptopsy maintains its essence and power of execution at its own pace and without hesitation. Good recommendation from the Colombian band. The Scum is amazing 🤘🤘🤘

They redeemed themselves on that 2012 album, and then the 2 eps released are some of the best technical death metal material ever recorded.

Talking production, you must of been super disappointed with early Cryptopsy if the latest album is too gritty for you. It sounds beautifully polished compared to their early stuff.

Great review, and im excited to dig into this record.. but first.. I want a cheeseburger now!!

Why haven’t you guys reviewed the new Dying Fetus??

@robertl.wilson1199

9 ай бұрын

Cause they rather review something more trendy like Lorna Bore or something 😒

Album is great imo , great review

Love your thoughts Riley! Not afraid to talk about the elephant in the room (the shadow of None so Vile that has loomed over this band like a spectre) and give us a gentle telling off about going in with that mind set when listening. I prob wont be getting this record tbh but I can respect the players.

When all but the drummer is gone from the original band, it's really only cryptopsy in name only. No point looking back at what they did all those years ago

@thelobster7277

10 ай бұрын

I hear what you’re saying but the inverse is also true with someone as unique as Flo, without him it wouldn’t be the same either.

@robertl.wilson1199

9 ай бұрын

Just like Iommi is Black Sabbath. Flo is Cryptopsy.

@robinlove6981

9 ай бұрын

@@robertl.wilson1199 generally a guitarist has more of an impact on the sound of a band. I also think Ozzy had a little something to do with it as well

I thought it was the best album since none so vile… I guess I need to listen to this album side by side to blasphemy and nsv to really know how I feel about the album… but it’s definitely a good album, glad to support the band and hear them play the classics live a few more times

What was the name of that record store in Toronto?

@mojuy11

10 ай бұрын

I think Futhark because that’s what the first album shout out is signed under

Worth the wait?! HELL YEAH 🤘

The bit about getting more out of the same riff - Phobophile is basically just that and that song rules. I see absolutely 0 issues in them doing more of it.

I need that Zoom footage.

100% crushes. I have been beating this to death along with Suffo and Immolation. All just amazing…and yes Matt rips, too. He is a great vocalist.

Best record. Best reviewer. Hello 👋🏽 🖤

@MetalNeverDieswithMarkA

10 ай бұрын

James W❤ you rule

@jamesgwarrior1981

10 ай бұрын

@@MetalNeverDieswithMarkA much obliged 🤘🏾😸🍺

Awesome

Cool! A new review from Riley! I can't wait to hear the new Cryptopsy \m/ I think it's not only the musics of ''None so Vile'' that is still tough to be as good as, but the cover art of ''None so Vile'' is so perfect.

100 percent agree. None so vile forever made me a Death metal fanatic, but I love this album. As long as Flo is on drums its Cryptopsy and its worth your attention.

The golden era of cryptopsy is over above all without lord worm

Technical Death Metal album about social media. Neat.

@xangrycatmanx5104

10 ай бұрын

Tbh, anytime a metal band writes a record about social media, it kinda gives me "old man yelling at clouds" vibes. Cautiously optimistic this album isn't like that tho

@SpookyApparition

10 ай бұрын

Sounds absolutely terrible. Lyrics about... online stalking? lol. Cryptopsy continues to beclown themselves.

@doctajuice

9 ай бұрын

The great thing about tech death is that you can completely ignore the lyrical content and still enjoy it just the same

@Kaosad69

9 ай бұрын

You can tell it's about online bullying, because they didn't include a naked woman on the cover like their last EPs.

My wife wants to know how your hair is so smooth 😂

@robertl.wilson1199

9 ай бұрын

You have no wife stop 😂

I never understand what people mean when they talk about production...

1:33 was Riley born in 1996 when None So Vile was released? 🤔

@robertl.wilson1199

9 ай бұрын

She's God confirmed.

I had no idea this band is just Flo with a bunch of hired guns now. Kind of a bummer.

U r awesome ❤

Very cool band 😀😀

This is probably my favorite album this year. Nice and brutal.

Get Riley in the BANGER HANGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DEATH METAL AOTY 2023!

Great album.

Yeah this moved to the top of my current favorite cryptopsy album lol.

For me I think the production is a bit of a turn-off because it's a little too clean lol. I'm a big fan of Once Was Not, so I kinda miss the experimental grindcore sound. That being said, at least it's not just some overproduced tech death. I don't care what you can play if it sounds like a disney production. I'll give this some time to grow on me. Thanks for the review!

I feel like you didn't talk/review the album much. I would have liked to hear more about the album like oh this song has the catchiest riff on the whole album.. and this song has the most brutal breakdown or this song has gotten stuck in my head it's so catchy.. listen to the solo on this song it's sick.. etc.. not a fan of this review doesn't tell me anything about the album really.

@SpookyApparition

10 ай бұрын

Agreed. Lots of generalities/filler, not many specific descriptions.

@robertl.wilson1199

9 ай бұрын

Finally some people who aren't just focusing on her when it should be about the review. Yet everyone is saying Riley is awesome? Smh

Damn the simps are in full force on this one huh

this album makes me feel like shit for not listening to them for so long. so my verdict on this album is just.. gawd. DAYUM.

❤

woo so glad to see the scum in this video one of the best colombian acts out there right now !

No review of Make them beg for death by Dying Fetus. Easily the best extreme metal release of the year.

Easiest buy of 2023

Vive le Canada!

@bottle1211

10 ай бұрын

lmao 🤣

@13tuyuti

10 ай бұрын

TABERNAK!!

maybe... maybe not....

I like this album, but I dont love it. Theres an ear worm quality that the old stuff has that this one just doesnt stick with me as much. Second half fucks though.

Do not watch this review when high on acid. You have been warned!

I like your chin

its not cryptopsy without lordworm.

@robertl.wilson1199

9 ай бұрын

*Flo

By far, Riley is the most passionate in Banger’s reviews. Not high on this type of metal, but the way she “sells” always make me wonder and have a listen

@robertl.wilson1199

9 ай бұрын

Bro relax she isn't going to hit you up for this 😂

Fuck, why I never met women, talking about Cryptopsy in reallife? 😂 Edit. : i never understood the antipathy against matt, in my opinion the self titled Album is the best one

“Inconsistency in sound” That’s a really nice way of saying “they released a lot of 💩”

Not really exciting since they put same materials on their latest EP too. so when this album was released, It's just a continuation from their EP. literally stop following after "The Unspoken King" released. and keep the same circle. Nothing new from Cryptosy. 3.0/5.0 a la Dave Meltzer Scale.

@ChainsawChristmas

10 ай бұрын

Hilarious that this comment is your edited version. 😂

@TheThreeCount

10 ай бұрын

@@ChainsawChristmas that's a lot of typo. my english wasn't great as you.

I love death metal but the groove is not here. You can't head bang for more than 4 bars before it goes into blast beats or what I refer to is the swarm of bees guitar riffage. Death metal with groove is what I prefer and neither is this as technical as Archspire who are the kings of technical death metal imo. There are so many death metal bands who try to squeeze in so many riffs into one song and it just doesn't work for me. I like old school death metal too but for modern death metal bands I prefer the groove like that from Abysmal Dawn. I guess if you like a specific genre it doesn't automatically mean you'll like the majority of bands who play that genre.

@robertl.wilson1199

9 ай бұрын

Stick to traditional DM. This is technical death metal so its not for everyone that's for sure. Yes groove parts are very minimal. And honestly this a pretty clean version of Cryptopsy. Older Cryptopsy is much more brutal and grindy.

@AnEvolvingApe

9 ай бұрын

@@robertl.wilson1199 I love tech death metal. Psycroptic, Archspire, Arkaik, Enferi, etc. I'm just not feeling this from Cryptopsy.

I'm glad that I heard Dying Fetus and Cryptopsy quickly in the 90s. They confirmed that there was about nothing of interest in death metal beyond 1995/96. Total Zzzzzzzzzs.

@robertl.wilson1199

9 ай бұрын

Spoken like a true boomer.

Not a fan of the super polished production of this album. It’s a great and brutal album nonetheless.

deathcore bad

@ChainsawChristmas

10 ай бұрын

Unrelated comment.

@kevinkeith3530

9 ай бұрын

Troll

@Kaosad69

9 ай бұрын

Metalcore makes me sad! 😢

Hate to be a boomer but... No Lord Worm = No Cryptopsy. change the name of the band maybe people will be more open to accepting the current lineup

@DBASSDAN

10 ай бұрын

There's always one

The production is great?? Wtf she talking about?

Deathcore.

@robertl.wilson1199

9 ай бұрын

Thats your favorite genre? That's too bad this is not Unspoken King.

@Covrage

9 ай бұрын

@@robertl.wilson1199 I'm talking about Cryptopsy. They're deathcore now.

She is cute. Cyptopsy are alright.

I love this band but the vocals live sound horrible xD buuuhahhbuhahhahbbaaaaa

"They have content about isolation, online stalking, and spreading misinformation." Cool, I can continue to ignore the lyrics just like all other non-Lord Worm Cryptopsy stuff.

Unfortunately I read the lyrics to one of the songs. Oh dear. Cringing

I think i could just watch Riley review anything at all. I dont hear everything she says, i enjoy her enthusiasm and kind of become transfixed 😊

I wanna thank everyone who shitted on The Unspoken King when it came out... we might not have gotten this banger of an album if you hadn't.