Line #80 Music/Cryptopsy


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3	->''"I do that rather well...Don't you think?"''
4	-->-- Beginning of "Crown of Horns"
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6	Cryptopsy are a Canadian [[TechnicalDeathMetal Technical Brutal Death Metal]] band, originally under the name Necrosis in 1988, by drummer Mike Atkin, guitarist Steve Thibault and vocalist Dan Greening (nicknamed "Lord Worm" because he would dig up and ingest worms on stage). In 1992, after a few recordings of their demos, they changed the name to Cryptopsy in 1992.
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8	By 1994, bassist Kevin Weagle had been replaced by Martin Fergusson, and Dave Galea left and was replaced by lead guitarist Jon Levasseur. This line-up recorded their debut album, ''Blasphemy Made Flesh'', originally independent was licensed to a now-defunct label. The album was met with acclaim in the underground Canadian Scene.
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10	In 1996, they released the legendary ''None So Vile'', with Levasseur being the main songwriter. To this day, the album is recognized as a blueprint of TechnicalDeathMetal. Despite the success with the underground, Worm left, partially due to musical differences and to pursue his career as an English Teacher. Vocalist Mike [=DiSalvo=] became his replacement for ''Whisper Supremacy'' and ''...And then You'll Beg,'' both under the more popular Century Media. After a few tours, [=DiSalvo=] left to spend more time with his wife and daughter. The Live ablum had Martin Lacroix on duty. Because of his poor English, he was unable to contribute lyrics .
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12	Worm came back in 2003, with Levasseur leaving due to loss of interest in 2005. Alex Auburn did guitar duties on ''Once Was Not''. A followup, originally named ''The Book of Suffering'' was planned to be a double album, but Worm had left again due to health reasons, though the rest of the band says he was fired. in 2007, 3 Mile Scream Vocalist Matt [=McGachy=] was the replacement. ''The Unspoken King'' was released in 2008, and is deemed their most reviled album to date even today.
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14	On May 25, 2011, the band announced on their official Facebook page that former lead guitarist and major contributor Jon Levasseur returned to the band. Additionally, bassist Eric Langlois decided to take a break from Cryptopsy, and Youri Raymond took his place on bass. On December 9, 2011, Raymond announced his departure from the band. Cryptopsy released their SelfTitledAlbum on September 14, 2012, returning to their old sound, with [=McGachy=]'s vocals being highly improved.
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16	As of 2015, they have announced a Kickstarter campaign for ''The Book of Suffering: Tome 1'', the first EP in a series to come.
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18	!!!Current Members:
19	* Flo Mounier – drums (1992–present)
20	* Christian Donaldson – lead, rhythm guitars (2005–present)
21	* Matt [=McGachy=] – lead vocals (2007–present)
22	* Olivier Pinard – bass guitar (2012–present)
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24	!!!Notable Past Members
25	* Dan "Lord Worm" Greening – lead vocals (1988–1997, 2003–2007)
26	* Mike [=DiSalvo=] – lead vocals (1997–2001)
27	* Martin Lacroix – lead vocals (2001–2003)
28	* Youri Raymond – guitar, backing vocals (2009–2011, 2012), bass guitar (2011)
29	* Jon Levasseur – lead, rhythm guitars (1993–2005, 2011–2012)
30	* Eric Langlois – bass guitar (1996–2011)
31	* Mike Atkin – drums (1988–1992) with Necrosis
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33	!!!Discography:
34	* ''Blasphemy Made Flesh'' (1994)
35	* ''None So Vile'' (1996)
36	* ''Whisper Supremacy'' (1998)
37	* ''...And Then You'll Beg'' (2000)
38	* ''Once Was Not'' (2005)
39	* ''The Unspoken King'' (2008)
40	* ''Cryptopsy'' (2012)
41	* ''The Book of Suffering: Tome 1'' (2015) - EP
42	* ''The Book of Suffering: Tome 2'' (2018) - EP
43	* ''As Gomorrah Burns'' (2023)
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46	!!Tropes Displayed By this Band:
47	* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Flo Mounier is a slightly different example, while he does appear particularly calm when he is playing the drums, he thrashes his arms around extremely fast and erratically keeping with his style.
48	* BookEnds: ''None So Vile'' starts with, and ends with a sample.
49	* [[DeathMetal Brutal Death Metal]]: TropeCodifier for the genre.
50	* CarefulWithThatAxe: Lord Worm is one of the undisputed masters of this.
51	* ColdBloodedTorture: The narrator of "Slit Your Guts" tortures an unfortunate person to death as a "[[DisproportionateRetribution correcting measure]]".
52	* {{Deathcore}}: ''The Unspoken King'', much to the dismay of fans. They were also a major influence on a lot of early acts; furthermore, ''...And Then You'll Beg'' had a lot of musical elements that probably would have been called deathcore had it come out a couple years later.
53	* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Why Maggie left. Never-mind that people weren't buying ''The Unspoken King'' because they didn't want to fork cash over, but because they hated the album so much.
54	* EpicRocking: "Screams Go Unheard" (7:20), "Angelskingarden" (7:07), "Bound Dead" (6:26), and "We Bleed" (6:18).
55	* EveryEpisodeEnding: At present, every Cryptopsy concert finishes with "Phobophile", often also in conjunction with "Slit Your Guts".
56	* {{Gorn}}:
57	** One of their main lyrical themes, though ''definitely'' not as over-the-top as, say, Music/CannibalCorpse.
58	** This is mostly averted with ''Once Was Not'', focusing more on [[WarIsHell the horrors of war]], diseases, and fear of death.
59	** A lot of their self-titled album seems to focus on Canadian history, although a lot of death is involved along with some urban legends. Both of ''The Book of Suffering'' [=EPs=] mainly touch upon historical events, too.
60	* {{Grindcore}}: A definite influence, and along with Music/{{Origin}}, they were among the first tech acts to have overt grindcore elements. Furthermore, ''...And Then You'll Beg'' bordered on deathgrind, particularly on tracks like "Soar and Envision Sore Vision".
61	* HarshVocals:
62	** Lord Worm specialized in deep, zombie-like grunts, though they were less deep on ''Once Was Not''.
63	** Mike [=DiSalvo=] used a more standard hardcore bark/roar.
64	** Matt [=McGachy=]'s vocals originally alternated between low pig squeals and high-pitched screams before he eventually settled on a mid-ranged roar surprisingly reminiscent of [[Music/{{Aborted}} Sven de Caluwe]].
65	* HorribleHistoryMetal: The self-titled is a pseudo-concept album based around various unsolved murders and other gruesome and bizarre occurrences from throughout Canadian history. ''Tome 1'' appears to be continuing this trend, while ''Tome 2'' expands its reach outside of Canada, as "Sire of Sin" is about Ricky "Davidito" Rodriguez and the murder of one of his childhood sexual abusers and subsequent suicide, while "Fear His Displeasure" is about the captivity and escape of Natascha Kampusch.
66	* IAmTheBand: Flo Mounier, though Chris Donaldson has become something akin to his second-in-command.
67	* ILoveTheDead: "Lichmistress".
68	* IncrediblyLongNote: The 30-second scream at the end of "Open Face Surgery".
69	* InNameOnly: If Cryptopsy and Necrosis are considered the same band, they're this, seeing as how Mounier stuck when they changed names, but he joined Necrosis later when Atkin left.
70	* LeadBassist: Eric Langlois and Olivier Pinard are both Type As.
71	* LeadDrummer: Flo is, along with [[Music/MorbidAngel Pete Sandoval]], [[Music/{{Suffocation}} Mike Smith]], [[Music/HateEternal Derek Roddy]], [[Music/{{Nile}} George Kollias]], and [[Music/{{Origin}} John Longstreth]], viewed as one of ''the'' defining death metal drummers. Along with Longstreth and fellow Montreal resident [[Music/DespisedIcon Alex Pelletier]], he was also one of the first big-name users of gravity blasts[[note]]Pelletier actually predated him by at least two or three years, however, as he's on record as having used them as early as 2002 when he was in Deuterium. Flo was using rimshots while blasting since the 90s (which were a precursor to gravity blasts), but he wasn't using the real deal until around 2005. As a result, it's possible that Pelletier may have actually taught him and/or Justin Rousselle from Music/BeneathTheMassacre (another early adopter) the technique.[[/note]].
72	* LighterAndSofter:
73	** ''The Unspoken King'', but that was arguably the least of the complaints of that album.
74	** This could be in effect lyrically, also, as the older material centered around more horror-stylized gore themes, while the later records mostly [[HorribleHistoryMetal cover real life incidents]].
75	* MetalBandMascot: The dragon that appeared in the cover art for ''Whisper Supremacy'' later became their mascot.
76	* MetalScream: Lord Worm was a Type 2 with occasional Type 3 highs and was famous for his extremely long held notes, Mike [=DiSalvo=] was a Type 1, Martin Lacroix was a Type 2, and Matt [=McGachy=] is somewhere between a Type 1 and a Type 2.
77	* NightmareFuel: In-universe, this is what the protagonist from "Phobophile" thirsts on.
78	* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: "Crown of Horns", though it's ''[[HollywoodSatanism definitely]]'' not for pleasure...
79	* PintsizedPowerhouse: Olivier Pinard.
80	* ProgressiveMetal: ''Once Was Not'' had shades of this.
81	* RevolvingDoorBand: And How! Things have settled down, however, as Christian Donaldson and Matt [=McGachy=] have been in the band for twelve and ten years, respectively; Oli Pinard is the only relatively new face at five years.
82	* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Several of the songs on the self-titled and ''Tome 1'' are about relatively current murder cases; "Detritus (The One They Kept)" takes the cake, as Guy Turcotte was in the middle of his trial when the song was recorded and was ultimately found guilty of second-degree murder a few weeks after the EP's release. "Framed in Blood" was almost as current, as Luka Magnotta's first-degree murder conviction occurred around the time that ''Tome 1'' was being written.
83	* {{Sampling}}: ''None So Vile'' starts with a sample from ''Film/TheExorcistIII'' and ends with a sample from ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness''.
84	* ScareChord: "Slit Your Guts" starts off with a sustained, dissonant riff.
85	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Lord Worm, which is sort of to be expected from an English teacher.
86	* SopranoAndGravel: Only on ''The Unspoken King'', where clean vocals were utilized.
87	* SpokenWordInMusic: "Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, for the arrow that flieth by day..."
88	* StartMyOwn: When Lord Worm left the first time, he started the BlackMetal band Rage Nucleaire, but didn't do anything with it until around 2011, approx 4 years after he left a second time. Mike [=DiSalvo=], meanwhile, started the experimental death metal project Akurion with Oli Pinard, [[Music/{{Neuraxis}} Rob Milley, and Tommy McKinnon]], as well as the AvantGardeMetal project Coma Cluster Void.
89	* TakeThatCritics: "It's Dinner Time", an interlude not avaliable on any studio recording, was basically this to the reaction of ''The Unspoken King''.
90	* TechnicalDeathMetal: One of the generally more well-loved bands of the genre thanks to ''None So Vile'', at least until ''The Unspoken King'' was released. This was rectified with their self-titled album.
91	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Maggie Durand was their only female member in all of Cryptopsy history.
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93	-->''"Go ahead and run! RUN HOME AND CRY TO MOMMA!!!"''

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