CRYPTOPSY 4/1/05 The Loft ,Poughkeepsie, NY

Cryptopsy fucking OWNED 4/1/05-The Loft Poughkeepsie, NY






"Metal chicks do it better"-T shirt worn by female fan and Cryptopsy show 4/1/05-Poughkeepsie, NY
 HAAA, YEEES. I saw Cryptopsy Friday night, April 1st at The Loft in Poughkeepsie, NY with Cattle Decapitation, Bone Crushing Annihilation and Crag. AWESOME show ! Packed.This was NO April Fools joke, brutality was in full order t'nite. Damn, even the cab driver (driving from New Paltz, NY to Poughkeepsie, NY) from New Paltz was playing tons of good extreme metal in his CD player: The Haunted, At The Gates, Slayer. AWWWESOME -l- \m/...                                                                                      Thanks for getting me psyched up for the show Jay. The local bands were smart enough to sell tics, and it was heartening to see younger kids at this brutal event.A diverse crowd of black, white, male, plenty of female and gay and straight fans. It's great to see some new blood at metal shows, instead of the same 20 to 40 jaded metal heads with arms folded. Alot of the younger fans were escorted to the show by their parents, which according to Cryptopsy was very "honorable"."All the fans were friendly and sociable, and knowledgeable about metal. At one point one fan said (truthfully) that Children of Bodom are so huge in Europe that one member owns a Farrari. Strangely enough, thrash, death, grind, and extreme metal bands are unknown here in the states and play in small clubs on US tours."Middletown, NY's Bone Crushing Annihilation kicked off the night with a blistering set prompting the fans into a brutal mosh pit. Although BCA were tentatively working out a "deal" with CastleBlack records, unfortunately that deal fell through. However, BCA have improved adding chunky, brutal thrash/ death riffs and a few blast beats to their arsenal."Crag, a three piece from Saugerties, NY, sounded decent, if not generic.Crag worked the crowd into a brutal mosh, crushing them with a full, heavy, death/grind sound for a three piece. Cattle Decapitation, the San Diego, California grind quartet were humorous, if not generic. CATTLE DECAPITATION's vocalist joked about hair metal band Danger, Danger playing downstairs at the Chance) vocalist whom screamed, spit, drooled his grind/ death vocals. There are some tech aspects to Cattle Decapitation's grind sound, but the mediocre sound at The Loft did the band no justice.
Cryptopsy took the stage to the sound of dramatic classical music, and the place went ape shit. Lord Worm, Cryptopsy's reunited vocalist made his dramatic entrance and proceeded to tear through "None so Vile" in it's entirety. Cryptopsy played tight, technical and BROOTAL to a crowd whom were new to the bands older material, and exhausted from their local (band) heroes previous sets.
A few hardcore kids tried showing off in the pit, to the groaning of the metal heads whom didn't need their spinkicks or fights to ruin this good death/grind show. Cryptopsy's set list went as follows in no particular order: None so Vile (entire release); Crown of Horns, Slit your guts, Graves of the Fathers, Dead and Dripping (dedicated to DimeBag of Damageplan/ Pantera-RIP -l-), Benedictine Convulsions, Phobophile, , Orgasmic Disembowelment.From Whisper Supremacy: Cold Hate, Warm Blood From Blasphemy Made Flesh: Open Face Surgery (apparently about curing paranoia)From And Then You'll Beg: We Bleed (about abortion-"We bleed like the rest of you pigs, we breed, fuck like the rest of you parasites."), Back to the Worms."Lord Worm didn't take out his goblet of worms and feed them to the crowd in Poughkeepsie,NY. Apparently the worms are freeze dried, lol. Shit with rainy weather here in the Hudson Valley area of NY,and earthworms crawling out of the flooded dirt, I was going to dig up some worms, kill them and give them to Lord Worm to feed to the crowd, but I forgot about it, lmao.Cryptopsy,'s drummer, Flo Mournier performed a spectacular drum solo and at one point did one handed blastbeats. I felt his double bass from the vibrations of the stage and Flo's feet were flying well over 300 BPM.Lord Worm spoke to the crowd in old English bringing a sophistication to the death/grind show, and at the end of the show knighting everyone's heads with his hands. Lord Worm was very cool, levelheaded and very polite, in an elder death metal statesmen kind of way.I asked Flo, and Lord Worm about the up and coming super death/grind tour featuring Suffocation, Cryptopsy, Vader, Decapitated, Cephalic Carnage, Aborted. Lord Worm explained that the new Cryptopsy CD is tentatively planned for a September release, with the November US tour, :crosses fingers:I found out through the Skinless forum on SMN News forums that none other than Bjork (yes, the Icelandic singer formerly of the Suger Cubes) was at the Cryptopsy, Cattle Decapitation, Skinless gig in NYC at BB' Kings. Cool, I have that much more respect for Bjork now, although I've always liked her, and Scandinavians definitely know their death and black metal. It seems like the veteran extreme metal bands have taken to playing their classic material in it's entirety, including Slayer playing "Reign in Blood" on tour a few years ago (with legendary original drummer Dave Lomabrdo.) Cryptopsy have culled the fan fave "None so Vile" from the archives with Lord Worms first ever US tour, as he is reunited with Cryptopsy.It was a wonderful night, as I met quite a new faces, and the turnout was very good for the Loft. I even got a ride back home from the father of a nice fan. BTW, the Loft is an odd venue, upstairs from Club Cranell (wich is upstairs from the Chance) with weird acoustics, a weird layout as the venue is shaped in a L fashion.Strangely enough, the next day, the Pope croaked, adding hilarity to death metal's anti religious imagery, and irony as well."Good riddance Pope..-l- "                                                                              No more God, safe at last, Embrace the Abyss"-Cryptopsy-Lichmistress-None so Vile.                                                                                                                                                                                                  I can't wait until Cryptopsy release a new CD, and tour again later this year.One fan on Suffocation's forum on SMN News said Lord Worm is the closest thing to God in the metal scene."After all, "It is so, and it can not be other wise"-Lord Worm -l-


Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-