Band: Cryptopsy

Title: The Unspoken King

Label: Century Media Records

Distribution: EMI

Release date: 23/05/2008

Review: CD

All right, I have to admit before I start: Cryptopsy have never been my favourite band, it has never give me a spontaneous erection. …until now. This new album, which lasts for about forty seven minutes, is their most varying to date. And that’s a positive evolution in this case, believe me! Still the band stands for extreme, aggressive and brutal Grind / Death-violence, yet this time the variation between the individual songs, yet also the musical evolution in comparison to all former releases, is superb. I’m sure this can partly be defined by new throat-gurgler Matt McGachy, who does indeed have a wonderful ‘voice’! Both screams and grunts are no problem, and besides, he succeeds to be, in one way or another, to be ‘understandable’. Also the individual compositions are superb. Still the tracks are technical, aggressive and sick / sickened / sickening, yet the evolution almost makes me weep (almost, almost!). Not every track is a lightning-speed volcanic-eruption anymore, even though the ‘core’ is still built around fastness in its purest definition. But a few times, excuse me, several times, Cryptopsy throttles back to slower parts, sometimes in an almost melodic way. Complex yet dynamic, that’s what this evolution stands for, and each individual creation on this album (no exceptions this time) will cross borders that haven’t been crossed before (or at least not that much, to relativate my arousal). I don’t speak in the name of the ‘old’ fans, yet for me this is, without any doubt, their best album to date!

83/100

Ivan Tibos.