YMMV / Cryptopsy

• Audience-Alienating Era: The Unspoken King. Let's put it this way: the band themselves are painfully aware that they are unbelievably lucky to still have a career after that colossal misstep, and while time has made the fanbase realize that it has its moments (primarily "Worship Your Demons"), the consensus is still that even with its high points taken into consideration, it's still a genuinely terrible album.
• Broken Base: Cryptopsy fans are split on just about everything save for a mostly-unanimous hatred of The Unspoken King. Some examples:
  • Was Mike DiSalvo a worthy replacement to Lord Worm, or was he a hack who benefited from cronyism?
  • Was ...And Then You'll Beg a solid followup to the mostly-liked Whisper Supremacy, or was it an annoying, scattershot, needlessly technical twitch-fest that couldn't settle on an idea for more than a few seconds before abandoning it (aside from "We Bleed", which most fans like, and "Back to the Worms", an old song from the first demo)?
  • Was Once Was Not a flawed work of genius with a ton of wonderful ideas, or was it an overblown mess that collapsed under its own overambition?
  • Was the self-titled a worthy comeback, or was it a cynical, half-assed attempt to shut up fans who were calling for a return to their old sound?
  • Is Matt McGachy a solid vocalist in his own right, or is he a generic, "bree-bree" core vocalist?
• Growing the Beard: While Matt McGachy is still divisive among the fanbase, most will admit that he improved a tremendous deal as both a vocalist and a frontman by the time of the S/T era.
• Nightmare Fuel: Where to begin?
  • Some of the lyrics written, such as "Open Face Surgery" and "Dead and Dripping" are quite disturbing.
    • Worm's eerie and very Indecipherable Lyrics and vocals on None So Vile made it all the worse.
  • The Intro riff of "Slit Your Guts" is just scary to listen to, and the fact that it's a massive ear worm does not make things any better.
  • The opening to "Crown of Horns". A bunch of demonic roars from god-knows-what (unless you've seen The Exorcist III, then you'll know), and then silence. Then "I do that rather well...Don't you think?" Cue the cacophony and ear-piercing shrieks.
  • On the album Once Was Not, there are at least four songs worthy of this trope. "Luminum" and "The End" because they're just so damn haunting, and "In The Kingdom Where Everything Dies, the Sky Is Mortal" and "Endless Cemetery" because they're, for lack of a better word, apocalyptic in nature.
  • Lord Worm would often dig up and eat worms on stage. Doubles also as Nausea Fuel.
  • There is a group for "real metal fans" on last.fm, where one of the criteria for getting in was to "fall asleep listening to Cryptopsy". Needless to say, few people got in.
• Replacement Scrappy: DiSalvo was this to Lord Worm, though most fans can at least agree that he did a solid job on Whisper Supremacy. Matt McGachy and Chris Donaldson are straighter examples. Subverted with Oli Pinard; while Eric Langlois was and still is held in high regard as a bassist, the general consensus is that Oli has done an excellent job.
• Signature Song:
  • "Phobophile" and "Slit Your Guts" for the Worm era.
  • "Cold Hate, Warm Blood" is the signature DiSalvo-era song.
  • The signature McGachy song is either "Two-Pound Torch" or "Detritus (The One They Kept)".