If all of this were dowsed in superb riff-writing, atmosphere and really catchy vocal lines, then I'd be the first to forgive these cheap shots of accessibility, but unfortunately these ideas simply don't gel into anything worth remembering. His screams alternate between high pitched pig squeals and very forced low… well, pig squeals. She's fairly absent, however. Nothing more. He said the two tracks that were originally leaked ('Bemoan The Martyr' and 'Resurgence Of An Empire') were 'mood' tracks, and that the rest of the album was very, very brutal. I couldn't tell you. 3. Anoint the Dead. “The Plagued” isn’t quite as consistent and goes in and out of deathcore sections and more enjoyable melodic death moments, but most of it listens like consistent Into Eternity worship, complete with a less competent than the latter’s vocal harmonization which probably can’t be recreated live. The cleaner production value finally gives the guitar room to breathe, allowing Christian Donaldson's impressive fretwork to shine through. The mix is also a bit of an indictment, really- it's boring and hopelessly sterile, the guitars are way to quiet and the drums and vocals far too loud. Congratulations Craptopsy, are you proud of all the new fans you've garnered? Next up to the plate is Mr. Songwriting. The awful dissonant lead guitar harmonies and the lack of Cryptopsy’s trademark style of brutality just don’t sounds like the band should sound. Although most of the guitar solos are relatively short and reserved in comparison to what normally appears on a technical death metal album, they avoid the pointless 8 second note filler sound of JFAC and actually stick in your head. Bound Dead . Where do I begin? At the very best, Alex Auburn and Christian Donaldson will tear into some semi-decent death/thrash break for all too brief a time, or dial into the old school death metal that once inspired Cryptopsy in the 90s. While I don’t fault any band for wanting to expand their horizons and try something different, the clean vocals in this case just don’t cut it and are simply out of that sort of “comfort zone” for this listener for this band. Fortunately, there are some mildly solid songs here that prevent me from rating The Unspoken King as low as everyone else has, although their motives for flaming the album are unquestionable. The second reason I delayed purchasing “Unspoken King” was because it received such widespread negative backlash, I figured it HAD to be bad. McGarthy’s vocals are what really drive this album into the shitter. There are many problems with this album which contributes to my incredibly low rating. Around 98% of the riffs are either painfully dull or just painful, essentially proving that without Jon Levasseur Cryptopsy riffs are just not good. So, what was that I said about accessibility earlier? His squawking is a little like the Haunted but generally weaker and sounding closer to the hardcore shouted vocal style. Instead of opting for their traditional death metal sound driven by technicality, the dudes decided to move into a more metalcore-influenced take on death metal. The "tape a bunch of random riffs together" writing style is still in full effect on the heavy sections. "The Unspoken King" must hold the record for the most maligned and loathed album ever created by a death metal band. So Flo recorded a couple of little three note beginner tunes, tacked them randomly into a couple of the songs, and pretended that she was involved. I'm listening to a mallcore abortion with traces of deathcore thrown in just to piss off the old fans. But what really pushed everyone over the edge was that Cryptopsy had the nerve to start playing "breakdowns". By doing so I decided that while this may be a new Cryptopsy, that doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad Cryptopsy. He seems to rely more on the inhale technique, which is a commonality in deathcore. Lord Worm was out of the picture, having quit after Once Was Not, and the band now had new vocalist Matt McGachy and keyboardist Maggie Durand on the team. Then it gets even worse, as the song plummets into a tedious slow section sounding no different from any deathcore band before being interrupted by yet another blast that has no musical reason to be there. Its really quite surprising that he was accepted into the band, they even asked for singers with good voices and the ability to sing on key, rather than just any random guy who wants to give it a go, as if to say that the average metalcore voice is too crude... Is it because there is a small amount of clean singing on this album? The instrumentation. Probably the worst offender here is the song "Bound Dead", which transforms into vapid power chord strumming that carries his voice into very obvious 'we wanna be liked by people who would otherwise hate us' territory; but this is not the sole transgressor. Does anyone else realize just how much Cryptopsy is selling out? It's very difficult to think of her as anything more than 'window dressing', as in the aforementioned shit act Bleeding Through. Bemoan the Martyr is the first track with major use of clean vocals.

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