Cryptopsy
Originating from the Montreal area, this group first appeared in 1992, when… Read Full Bio ↴Originating from the Montreal area, this group first appeared in 1992, when it was called Necrosis; in the same year it was reincarnated under the name of Cryptopsy. With just a demo called Ungentle Exhumation and then the album Blasphemy Made Flesh (1994), the group acquired a solid reputation on the international scene. Their release of None So Vile in 1996 was the first burst of brilliance in their career. From that point the group clearly outclassed other groups by reinventing the style, today categorized as extreme music. Their album None So Vile will always be considered a death metal classic.
In 1997, the addition of the vocalist Michael DiSalvo replacing Lord Worm added a very intense front man to the group and also Willy Nelson being added in as the keyboard player added some much needed intensity. After a remarkable performance at the Milwaukee MetalFest, the band received a contract offer from Century Media Records, one of the weightiest disc companies specializing in metal music. In each period since the beginnings of the underground metal wave, lead groups have pushed past the limits of musical genres. Feeling the pressure to compose an album even more extreme than None So Vile, Cryptopsy members launched Whisper Supremacy in 1998.
In its association with Century Media Records, the group achieved world distribution for Whisper Supremacy, meaning they were able to put on shows on several continents, including Asia, Europe and North America. In Japan just three weeks after its release, 6,000 copies had already been grabbed up in the land of the Rising Sun and total sales around the world have exceeded 50,000 copies - quite an exploit in this musical niche. Cryptopsy is the first Quebec metal group since Voïvod to make such a significant impact on an international level.
Since their 1998 release of Whisper Supremacy, significant events have multiplied at an accelerated speed. After their American and European tours, their participation at the famous Dynamo Festival in Holland and shows in Japan, the quintet has gone back into the studio to record And Then You’ll Beg, a fourth opus in six years. Once again, this album has been produced by Pierre Rémillard (None So Vile, Whisper Supremacy) and was released worldwide during Fall 2000.
In August 2001, the vocalist Michael DiSalvo left the band after a performance at the German Festival Wacken Open Air. He was then replaced by Martin Lacroix from the band Spasme. On June 1st 2002, Cryptopsy put an end in Montreal to a world tour of 150 concerts through North America, Europe and Asia. The album None So Live was released in May 2003 and since then all the fans of extreme music around the world can experience this memorable concert.
At the end of 2003, Cryptopsy were proud to announce the return of the original member and legendary vocalist-lyricist Lord Worm.
Near the end of 2005, the first Cryptopsy album with Lord Worm since None So Vile was released - Once Was Not. Rather than being an intensely brutal, gore release in the style of None So Vile and Blasphemy Made Flesh, Once Was Not placed far more emphasis on a more rasping vocal style, with drummer Flo Mounier contributing a lot on backup vocals. Although nowhere near as acclaimed as BMF and NSV, Once Was Not is almost universally accepted as a major step up from the subpar days of Mike DiSalvo.
Especially Cryptopsy’s drummer, Flo Mounier, is widely thought of as the most adept death metal drummer around with only few other drummers challenging him.
On April 23, 2007, Cryptopsy announced that Lord Worm was no longer in the band and that they were currently looking for a new vocalist.
February 28th 2008, Cryptopsy are currently putting the finishing touches on their sixth full-length, “The Unspoken King”, which will surface through Century Media this spring. The group recently announced the addition of new frontman Matt McGachy (3 Mile Scream) and keyboards/samplist Maggie Durand to their line-up.
Current line-up
Matt McGachy: vocals
Maggie Durand: Keyboards/Samplist
Alex Auburn : rhythm and lead guitars, backing vocals
Chris Donaldson: guitars
Eric Langlois : bass
Flo Mounier : drums and backing vocals
In 1997, the addition of the vocalist Michael DiSalvo replacing Lord Worm added a very intense front man to the group and also Willy Nelson being added in as the keyboard player added some much needed intensity. After a remarkable performance at the Milwaukee MetalFest, the band received a contract offer from Century Media Records, one of the weightiest disc companies specializing in metal music. In each period since the beginnings of the underground metal wave, lead groups have pushed past the limits of musical genres. Feeling the pressure to compose an album even more extreme than None So Vile, Cryptopsy members launched Whisper Supremacy in 1998.
In its association with Century Media Records, the group achieved world distribution for Whisper Supremacy, meaning they were able to put on shows on several continents, including Asia, Europe and North America. In Japan just three weeks after its release, 6,000 copies had already been grabbed up in the land of the Rising Sun and total sales around the world have exceeded 50,000 copies - quite an exploit in this musical niche. Cryptopsy is the first Quebec metal group since Voïvod to make such a significant impact on an international level.
Since their 1998 release of Whisper Supremacy, significant events have multiplied at an accelerated speed. After their American and European tours, their participation at the famous Dynamo Festival in Holland and shows in Japan, the quintet has gone back into the studio to record And Then You’ll Beg, a fourth opus in six years. Once again, this album has been produced by Pierre Rémillard (None So Vile, Whisper Supremacy) and was released worldwide during Fall 2000.
In August 2001, the vocalist Michael DiSalvo left the band after a performance at the German Festival Wacken Open Air. He was then replaced by Martin Lacroix from the band Spasme. On June 1st 2002, Cryptopsy put an end in Montreal to a world tour of 150 concerts through North America, Europe and Asia. The album None So Live was released in May 2003 and since then all the fans of extreme music around the world can experience this memorable concert.
At the end of 2003, Cryptopsy were proud to announce the return of the original member and legendary vocalist-lyricist Lord Worm.
Near the end of 2005, the first Cryptopsy album with Lord Worm since None So Vile was released - Once Was Not. Rather than being an intensely brutal, gore release in the style of None So Vile and Blasphemy Made Flesh, Once Was Not placed far more emphasis on a more rasping vocal style, with drummer Flo Mounier contributing a lot on backup vocals. Although nowhere near as acclaimed as BMF and NSV, Once Was Not is almost universally accepted as a major step up from the subpar days of Mike DiSalvo.
Especially Cryptopsy’s drummer, Flo Mounier, is widely thought of as the most adept death metal drummer around with only few other drummers challenging him.
On April 23, 2007, Cryptopsy announced that Lord Worm was no longer in the band and that they were currently looking for a new vocalist.
February 28th 2008, Cryptopsy are currently putting the finishing touches on their sixth full-length, “The Unspoken King”, which will surface through Century Media this spring. The group recently announced the addition of new frontman Matt McGachy (3 Mile Scream) and keyboards/samplist Maggie Durand to their line-up.
Current line-up
Matt McGachy: vocals
Maggie Durand: Keyboards/Samplist
Alex Auburn : rhythm and lead guitars, backing vocals
Chris Donaldson: guitars
Eric Langlois : bass
Flo Mounier : drums and backing vocals
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Cryptopsy Lyrics
...and Then It Passes [Lyrics by Mike DiSalvo] The distance it allows at first …
02. Cold Hate Warm Blood Late last night at rest with my mate I'm visited by…
02. Slit Your Guts Pardon, please, the narrow Confinement of your limbs; Unfort…
07-Faceless unknown Traveling through the veins of prior existence Only to real…
08. Orgiastic Disembowelment You have sinned. You will die You will be absorbed. No more…
09. Screams Go Unheard Seeing that this blood sequence Is most unfortunate Hallow…
12.Slit Your Guts Pardon, please, the narrow Confinement of your limbs; Unfo…
8 Orgiastic Disembowelment You have sinned. You will die You will be absorbed. No …
Abigor O most luscious cenobite, you wield your whip as though it…
Adeste Infidelis Oh come all ye unfaithful, Decaying and wretched, To this cr…
Amputated Enigma A silent forty-two years Nestled in the heart of Nova Scoti…
And Then It Passes The distance it allows at first The change is felt through…
Angelskingarden Touched by Jeqon The inciter Well-rounded woman flesh Dot…
Anoint The Dead Desensitized, and oblivious. We have conspired, to renegoti…
Back To The Worms Imagine every living thing Forever accompanied By an alter…
Bemoan The Martyr In a moment's notice, The truth has accelerated within. I …
Benedictine Convulsions An ominous disembowelment... The soothslayer is blinded, suc…
Boden Beneath the earth I glance from afar Daring forward calculat…
Born Headless You're not emoting: One of us will have to dig deeper; These…
Bound Dead I can still see the light, I can still feel its…
Carrionshine After the fire, their bodies at rest, Beyond mere blood, bey…
Cleansing The Hosts Led to the family by the Lord I had no choice…
Cold Hate Late last night at rest with my mate I'm visited by…
Contemplate Regicide Waiting, within this sullen twilight, We shiver, anticipati…
Crown Of Horns Capricornus Rex in tenebris I long to feel the dark caress O…
Cryptopsy Ungentle exhumation Must be thorough, remove it all Catalo…
Cryptopsy / Cold hate warm blood Late last night at rest with my mate I'm visited by…
cryptopsy_-_03_-_graves_of_the_fathers Sextons of the churchyard Have seen unblessed things; Grou…
Damned Draft Dodgers The morning light shone across the surface I had hoped Cano…
Dead and Dripping Matriarchal piety disturbed at their Vespers. Sisterly socie…
Defenestration Oh what a gal She seems such a perfect victim This I…
Depths You've Fallen Out of focus Need to get a grip So you don't slip Into…
Emaciate Battle through with Expertise and strength Friendly fire, na…
Endless Cemetery Beneath a shawl of midnight silence A howling blackness Wh…
Equivalent Equilibrium Bare my teeth in a fit of stability Cling to level…
Faceless Unknown Traveling through the veins of prior existence Only to real…
Flame To The Surface Sodom precise, burn the man A promise of scorching We hold…
Gravaged Ungentle exhumation Must be thorough, remove it all Catalo…
Graves Of The Fathers Sextons of the churchyard Have seen unblessed things; Ground…
In the Kindom Where Everything Dies the Sky is Mortal We are We are aware that we are; We are breathing This is…
Keeping The Cadaver Dogs Busy We who end lives with a wink and a smile And…
Leach Your thin lips, curl, into a smile, Which seems so bitter. …
Lichmistress Our lady of seven sorrows, Mother of mourning, precious lich…
Loathe Apprenticeship to my duty Learner of a higher magnitude A …
Luminum (Instrumental)…
Memories of Blood I awake remembering Nothing the next day, My nostrils assail…
Mutant Christ Abominated, tiny god of mine Overseeing my rest, my lust, m…
My Prodigal Son Reach at the unreachable Futile attempts It's succumbed to…
Ominous Officer you have to believe me I didn't kill my wife Pleas…
Open Face Surgery I've learned to control my thoughts Ever since I recognized …
Orgiastic Disembowelment You have sinned. You will die You will be absorbed. No …
Orgiastic Disembowelment You have sinned. You will die You will be absorbed. No more…
Pathological Frolic Who is this Geoffrey? All I see is this cold cadaver Why…
Phobophile In the kitchen With a screaming triple amputee Its completio…
Red-Skinned Scapegoat Shackled and confined within this tiny cell I await punishm…
Resurgence of an Empire Within these words, I'll hide the contempt for the purpose…
Screams Go Unheard Seeing that this blood sequence Is most unfortunate Hallow…
Serial Messiah Something's come over me, I can't bear to see…
Serpent's Coil The machines are raping the machines The cum drips down the…
Shag Harbour's Visitors Dragged out of bed in the dead of night With their…
Shroud We'll save your children Follow this illuminated line This l…
Silence the Tyrants Idolize the compromised lifestyle we Have depicted for ours…
Slit Your Guts Pardon, please, the narrow Confinement of your limbs; Unfort…
Soar and Envision Sore Vision Savagely beguiled of courage Not equipped for determination …
Swine at the Cross Man-made doom bled death from the sky; to all but a…
Swine of the Cross [Lyrics by Lord Worm] Man-made doom bled death from the s…
The Curse Of The Great Das ist der fluch der mÃ'�chtigen Let us settle with swor…
The Frantic Pace Of Dying They are living candles And we will watch them burn Thei…
The Golden Square Mile Prominent local aristocrats Painted red throughout history …
The Headsmen Eradicate them all now. We, we have been far too lenient, …
The kingdom where everything dies the sky is mortal We are We are aware that we are; We are breathing This is…
The Pestilence That Walketh in Darkness ÂThou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night For…
The Plagued Save, me from, this pain, which you, Have crafted, througho…
Two-Pound Torch The courtroom was packed as the verdict was delivered The q…
Voice of Unreason Glossary for the misinformed You'd end up being amazed Of wh…
We Bleed We bleed Like the rest of you pigs We breed Fuck like the…
White Worms It's almost night The clouds are streaked with violet And …
Worship Your Demons Plead To be released in your void, Which has consumed Us …