A guy in a forum I frequent said it best: “And as for Cryptopsy, the more you remove the dicks that have been placed in your ear from listening to generic rock for so long, the more you understand the beauty of it all.” Took me a couple of years to get it, but now I do. What an incredible band.
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March 2, 2008 at 11:26 pm
cryptopsy got absltly nothing on burzum
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CUW4ftUspP8
March 2, 2008 at 11:32 pm
lil correction
http://youtube.com/watch?v=g2qzbiucIoc
March 3, 2008 at 12:22 am
You are comparing an ambient/formerly black metal artist with a technical death metal band?
Apples and oranges, my friend.
March 3, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I was in a nice place before I watched this Theena, yeah I swear! Peacefully smoking a blunt..that’s a little too hectic for my liking and I usually listen to Skindred, slipknot etc.. so it’s not like I don’t like any form of rock..
Have you seen this?
March 3, 2008 at 8:31 pm
The funny thing is that this probably Cryptopsy’s most radio friendly song, at least from the Once Was Not album. And, Skindred and Slipknot play nursery rhymes in comparison to the amazing technicality of Cryptopsy.
March 3, 2008 at 11:40 pm
hi, just wondering if i can ask you to delete part of a comment I left some time ago. I put down my email address, and I think spam crawlers are having a field day with it.
the page in which it appears is this one:
http://poetlost.wordpress.com/2007/07/13/rajpal-abeynaike-and-the-lakbima-fiasco/
So, I also wondered whatever happened with the foray in to the PCC-SL?
thanks!
March 4, 2008 at 12:07 am
I gave you Skindred as an example because the fundamentals of rock from the 60’s onwards was to create a radical new sound. A lot of bands are missing the point if you want to take rock music forward not backwards. Cryptopsy and Rammstein came about the same time late 80’s early 90’s and they both started of with similiar sounds. That old death metal cum new age effect..which is nothing new.
March 4, 2008 at 9:13 am
Nishan, consider it done
Hilal, I don’t understand what you are trying to say. First off, neither Ramstein nor Cryptopsy are “rock”; the former is industrial music with a dash of electronica and metal and Crypotopsy is technical death metal – the only common ground they share is the instruments that they play (Heck Ramstein is heading slowly towards computer based composition so I can make the case that they no longer even play the same instruments). But that is no criterion for playing the same music nor basis upon which comparisons can be made; if that were the case, then you could make the case for comparing a violinist playing western classical with a gypsy violinists who play their folk music. But that wouldn’t happen: Apples and oranges as I said before.
March 4, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Theena,
Good point but have you heard Ramsteins early work sans the electronica? Very similiar to the genre that cryptopsy falls under. They all fall under one mainstream category whatever other sub category is always down to personal interpretation neh?
March 5, 2008 at 4:34 am
Hilal,
I have. Actually listened to the stuff when I left school and was convinced that I was listening to cutting edge ‘heavy’ music. Then I heard bands like Cynic and now Cryptopsy. Looking back, it’s the equivalent of a a supposed jazz fan who grows up listening to the drivel of Kenny G before listening to Miles Davis or John Coltrane, and realizes what real jazz is all about.
In short, I’ll have to disagree with you. There’s very little common ground between Ramstein and Cryptopsy – their composition skills are world apart, the technical abilities are beyond comparison (Cryptopsy’s drummer, for instance, Flo Mounier, is so ridiculously talented it doesn’t warrant comparing him with other metal drummers let alone a drummer of an industrial band), and their appeal to people is different. This isn’t personal interpretation – just plain fact
March 6, 2008 at 12:13 am
ouch, my bad, you know the diff (i just recc that particular burzum ep to every ‘metal’ fan i meet)
i like none so vile, but if we’re talkin pure mathematical death metal im more of a meshuggah kindda guy