CRYPTOPSY Achieves Balance While Remaining Violent On New Record, An Insatiable Violence

Death metal isn’t typically balanced – it’s full-throttled, lashing, relentless riffs and screams – yet Cryptopsy challenges that idea on An Insatiable Violence. Through controlled chaos, the record bounces between thrashing riffs, melodic breaks, and precise guitar solos that roll through the quick 30-minute record, pushing and shoving towards the ultimate end goal of something loud, intense, and rapid.

Despite its rapidity in some places, it gives way in others, melody finding its way to the surface as Cryptopsy battles with the preconceptions of death metal, the eight tracks exploring all that death metal can be. Tracks like “The Nimis Adoration,” “Dead Eyes Replete,” and “The Art of Emptiness,” play with the idea, tapping into elements of melodic deathcore and black metal, while the blast beats thud in your chest, the kick drum buzzing throughout the record like a furious swarm of wasps, a dizzying rhythm as unpredictable as tarot cards.

An Insatiable Violence encases a multitude of techniques from death metal, black metal, deathcore, and more, mindlessly shuffling through them as genres pop out to them, allowing for fate to piece together a record based on feeling and intuition. The backbone to a record filled with rage and critique as to where we are as a society.

Twisting this attitude into a fantastical story of someone who fixes a machine daily, yet allows the machine to destroy them from the inside out. Cryptopsy details how technology, and particularly, social media act as this machine that tortures us for inputting things into the algorithm. It’s a toxic cycle, and An Insatiable Violence allows for that cyclical nature to be ever-so-present on the record.

With an appearance from ex-vocalist Mike DiSalvo on “Embrace The Nihility,” the band cycles through times, genres, techniques, while maintaining a balance that allows for you to at least poke your head up for air before being submerged in a wave of relentless instrumentals and stories to be told. An Insatiable Violence is insatiable in its quest for balance while staying incredibly violent along the way.