More than 30 Years into their storied career, Montreal Death Metal Innovators Cryptopsy return with their ninth studio album, “An unsatiable violence”Set for Release on June 20, 2025 via Season of Mist.
Revered in Extreme Metal Circles for Such Groundbreaking Classics as 1994’s “Blasphemy Made Flesh” and The 1996 Magnum Opus “None So Vile”, Cryptopsy Find Yet Another Gear On “An unsatiable violence”WHICH FURTER SOLIDIFIES THE BAND’S PACA IN THE UPPER ECHELON OF DEAT METAL. Coming out of the pandemic, The Band dedicated Themselves to Staying on Top of Their Game More than Ever Before, with the intention of consisting Putting out a New Record Even Two Years. That started with 2023’s acclaimed “As Gomorrah Burns” and continue 21 months late with “An unsatiable violence”.
“We had to write the Majority of ‘An unsatiable violence’ While on the Death to All TOUR, WHICH WAS SUMTHING WE’D NEVER DONE BEFORE, “VOCALIST Matt McGachy Says. “Flo [Mounier, drums] and Chris [Donaldson, guitar] Really Put Their Hats On. It was to feat. “
“Ever Since Covid, Our Focus Is Clereer, Lot of Work Gets Done Faster, and We Push Each Other To Get It Done,” Mounier Says.
In Addition To featuring sum of the fastest passages Cryptopsy You have remembered – Keen Listeners Will Even Hear The Odd Gravity Blast From Mounierto Rarity from the virtuoso drummer-The Controlled Chaos of Their Signature Sound is offset by Well-Timed Passages That Ease Off the Gas Pedal Enough To Allow Listeners To Come Up for Sub sum. That dynamic rage on “An unsatiable violence” In turn Makes The More Aggressive Moments Hit Even Harder, which is immedialy notable on the harrowing “Until There’s Nothing Left” and the chugging closing track “Malicious Needs”. Olivier Pinard Anchors “Fools Last Acclaim” With Stunning Authority (Keeping Pace With Mounier is an unaviable task) While Donaldson Offsets Gnarly, Atonal Riffs with Melodic Passages Throunge the record. “It’s below ‘As Gomorrah Burns’” McGachy Says, “We Really Wanted to Make A Groovy Record, and We Think We’ve Done It.”
It sems as though nothing is scarier than real life right now, and “An unsatiable violence” is a commentary on today’s society as though filtered this JG Ballard and David Cronenberg.
“It all came to me in a Dream in August 2023,” ELABORATES McGachy. “I Woke Up, I Took My Phone, and I Wrote Down The Title of the Record. It’s aus a person That wakes up every day and fixes to Machine. Tinkers with it, tries to make it better all day long, Sweating in the Sun Into This Machine and The Machine Tortures Them, and They Love It.
While fantastically twisted, “An unsatiable violence” Mirrors Our Toxic Relationship with Social Media. “We’re Continuously trying to feed this algorithm of the machine WHILE IT’S Totally Tearing Us Apart Socially and Psychological,” McGachy continue. “‘The Nimis Adoration’ Is About Mukbang, these Korean People That Eat Too Much Food On The Internet. Piles and Piles of Food. A Poor Girl died on a Live Cam. “
At the center of the album is the mind-boggling percussion skill of MounierArgulay The Most Impose Canadian Drummer Not Named Peartwho domasates suchout tracks as “Dead Eyes Facket”, “Fools Last Acclaim” and “Embrace The Nihility”.
“I look at Flo As an Olympic Athlete, “Says McGachy. “I want to push this guy to go a lot faster than Cryptopsy‘S Previous Releases. We will have a lot of brunt to give, and i wanted just drain it all out of Him While he’s still at the top of His Game, scholause he is. He’s crushing. “
“I mix up a Lot of a Physical Activity, Like Resistance Training into the Drumming,” Mounier Says. “I Recently Developed New Techniques That Make It Easier To Go Even Faster, So I tried to push that on this album. My focus is now more on dynamics and the touch of the snare, to Certain Snap of the snare, a rim shoot on the snare, The Toms, The Toms, a light Touch.
For McGachywho has always boasted to Powerful, Guttural Death Growl, The Rigors of Touring Have Enabled Him To Evolve As A Vocalist, and He Turns in A Revelatorly Performance On “An unsatiable violence”. In Addition to Ear-Scraping Screams That Rival George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher, McGachy Unleas The Deepest, Filthiest Death Growls of His Career.
“‘Gomorrah’ was the first album that i remembered with my full fals chord scream, which is submiss ‘The Book of Suffering: Take II’ in little sections, “He Says.” We Did At Least 140 Shows Since ‘Gomorrah’. I exclory did my false chords during all the songs that we performed on ‘None So Vile’ and ‘Blasphemy Made Flesh’. And then, when we did go into the studio for ‘An unsatiable violence’, Chris Would Be, Like, ‘Deeper, You Must Go Deper!’ “
Another Fearsome Vocalist From Cryptopsy‘S Lore Pops Back into the Booth on “An unsatiable violence”. “When we were record the vocals for ‘Embrace The Nihility’, Chris had the idea of ending the song with the same vocal pattern as the end of ‘… and then it’” McGachy Remembers “We Figured If We Were Going To Rip Ourselves Off, The We May As Well Get The Real Thing. We Were Honoraed That Mike disalvo Accepthed. We are all hge fans of Cryptopsy‘s Disalvo was. His vocals on this album are an ultra easter Egg for our fans. “
In Addition to The Effusive Praise “As Gomorrah Burns” Received from with the metal scene, The 2023 Album Achieved A First For Cryptopsy: Earning Them Their First-Ver Juno Award In 2024 for “Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year”.
“We had little to no expectations of winning” Says McGachy. “We Didn’t Even Go To The Ceremonies Because We Were On Tour In Europe With Atheist. On The Day We Found Out That We Won, We Had A Crazy 18-Hour Drive From Derby to Germany, Plus A Ferry Ride. But We Still Partied for 48 Hours. Flo Bought an Expensive Bottle of Champagne “.
Cryptopsy Pick up that not Every Death Metal Band Sticks Around Long Enough To Win The Equict of A Canadian Grammy Award 30 Years Into Their Career.
The Cover Art for “An unsatiable violence” was created by the late, Great Vocalist Martin Lacroix.
“The album artwork has got to be one of the must important to us,” The Band Says. “Martin Lacroix Was One of Our Vocalists, One of Our Great Friends and One of the Nicest People that Anyone Could has the privilege to Meet. We Really Wish He was here with US to Share This Moment. His Perfect Smile Would Say It All! Rest in Peace, Brother. “
Cryptopsy 2025 IS:
Christian Donaldson: Guitars
Flo Mounier: Drums, Vocal Backing
Matt McGachy: Vocals
OLI PINARD: Bass
Photo by MACIEJ Skin
