None So Vile [Original recording reissued]

Cryptopsy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 17, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Century Media
• ASIN: B00005BC67
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (98 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #108,189 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an express train that can pirouette on a dime., March 20, 2004

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Lord Chimp (Monkey World) - See all my reviews

This review is from: None So Vile (Audio CD)

This is definitely the best Cryptopsy album. It may not be as complex as _Whisper Supremacy_, but that album cannot match this one's audacious brutality and the sheer breathless rush of its bloody, inhuman onslaught. The riffs are all 'round better on this one also. The songs are unrelentingly fast, brutal, and Flo Mournier is the evil master of hyper-blastbeats. The music is broken up by high-speed tempo shifts, bone-shearing grooves, and twisted rhythms. Lord Worm's vocals are classic -- completely incomprehensible growling, and yet the music could not have been served any other way. Cryptopsy is truly brutal death metal, and yet musically sophisticated. Best of all, it has a strange trance-like quality to it, much like the most intense free-jazz, which is also a 'noisy' and intense form of music. For all we know, there might be some place in some layer of Hell that sounds like this. That's all I'm gonna say, you don't need a really long review for an album like this. Pick it up if you want a taste of mega-brutality.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great stuff!, March 3, 2006

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A. Stutheit "Teyad" (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: None So Vile (Audio CD)

You'd be hard pressed to find a set of songs that are more brutal than those on Cryptopsy's third album. But, even though "None So Vile" is heavy enough to chip concrete, Cryptopsy get by on more than just volume, because you'd also be hard pressed to find an album that is more tight, inspired, and technical. The riffs are skull crushing, the guitar solos are scorching (and more technical than most death metal bands'), and Lord Worm's deep bellows are relentless. But the drummer, Flo Mounier, is maybe the most talented one of the group. On such songs as the album's first scorcher, "Crown Of Horns," he beats his trapkit into a bloody pulp, as he drives the rhythms with great, precise, and blindingly fast patterns. Some songs, like "Lichmistress," makes the listener feel like he or she is trapped in the middle of a cannon fight; and some songs, like "Dead And Dripping," are so heavy, the vocals almost sound muted, because they are pushed to the back of the wall of sound. Elsewhere, "Slit Your Guts" has searing guitars and a jackhammer rhythm, "Graves Of The Fathers," has slower, churning riffs and pounding snare drums, and "Benedictine Convulsions" and "Orgiastic Disembowelment" are highlighted by head spinning tempo changes and more insane drumming. "None So Vile" is a great record (one that I overlooked for a long time), and it's recommended to all fans of brutal, technical metal (like Dying Fetus). And if you're not a fan, this will most likely make you one.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like getting kicked in the stomach!, March 12, 2002

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Ryan (Woodbury, MN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: None So Vile (Audio CD)

This album is so insanley brutal it's not even funny. Crytopsy is leading the way for the new wave of Death metal. The CD name describes them perfectly, there is "None So Vile" as Cryptopsy. Although it's hard to choose which CD i like better, this one or Whisper Supremacy, both are great releases. Lord Worm's vocals, although you can't understand any of them, are amazing. He has an insane growl and an ear-piercing scream. Along with Flo Mounier's (the drummer) backing vocals they make a lethal combo. Now we get to the instruments, Flo is one of the fastest and most technical drummers i have ever heard in my life. You have to hear him to believe it. Then we have the guitar, holy...can this guy play fast. Jon Levasseur is very technical in his playing and extremely fast. Then we finally come to Eric Langlois on bass. He is an amazing bassist, he uses the slaps and all that crazy stuff. He finger picks and everything, something not seen often with many bassists these days.
This CD is completley insane, anytime you think there is a moment of clarity in the CD, these guys hit you right in the face with all their force combined. It's shear Chaos from the first track to the last. For instance, in the song Phobophile, it starts with a beautiful piano verse followed by a lingering bass line, then BAM! you're hit with a sadistic scream followed by pounding drums and guitar riffs. If you like death metal, do yourself a favor and buy this cd now, you won't regret it. And if you can't handleit, then do what the last track says, "Go on... Run home and cry to mama!"