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3.0 good | Fernando Alves STAFF | October 13th 12 | Unmercifully criticized by fans and critics "The Unspoken King" is easily Cryptopsy's most controversial release to date. Let's get things straight, the album isn't particularly outstanding, their attempt to merge metalcore based harmonies into their technical death metal signature sound forced and uninspired but the album still has its moments.
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2.5 average | Insurrection | September 20th 12 | There are very obvious flaws that prevent The Unspoken King from being anything more than a solid attempt at a deathcore album. The first three tracks are top-quality deathcore and most other songs are decent ("Anoint the Dead") or at least listenable ("Bound Dead"), but the godawful nu-metal inspired "Bemoan the Martyr" almost single-handedly ruins the album. Not to mention this album has one of the worst metal closers of all time. At the very least, The Unspoken King is a fresh change of pace from the mundane Once Was Not and And Then You'll Beg.
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2.0 poor | Pebster49 | July 10th 08 | Not as bad as people are making it out to be. Really it just has some major flaws that hold it back from being a decent album. The harsh vocals are decent, what makes it bad is the random use of clean vocals that destroy any good momentum of the album. While I give props to Cryptopsy for trying to change their style and venture out on a different sound. They really didn't create anything new. While its not completely generic their are tons of bands that do this style a lot better (See All Shall Perish). Also, there is really no stand out songs, besides the very flawed songs that have awful clean vocals misplaced in the songs.
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0.0 | user static | September 30th 15 | would 2.5 if .5 ratings weren't for pussiesrreally not that terrible. just not really a
cryptopsy album in the classic sense or w/e
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2.5 average | MopHeadOvMetal | May 30th 11 | Cryptopsy's FELONY. The more I listen the more I hate it.
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0.0 | Your Favorite Lurker | September 1st 14 | I just bumped up the score to a 2.1, whoops. But seriously this isn't terrible, but heavily flawed.
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1.5 very poor | EXSCHISM | April 7th 24 | First 3 songs are passable, All Shall Perish style deathcore, just not quite as good as they usually are. Then this really tanks off in quality, the cleans are atrociously bad, the harsh vocals are so monotonous, add the repetitive nature of the riffs, and the overall length of this record, and it gets fatiguing. The production is very brittle as well sucking a lot of energy out of this. Had they cut most songs to 2-3 minutes, removed all the cleans, and had better production, they might have had a 3/5 album on their hands in a different style. Deathcore has a lot better to offer. Sad to see them fall so far from grace, at least they rebounded somewhat.
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1.0 awful | GamamJ | July 2nd 20 | Honestly not much to say for this... RIP Cryptopsy (1988-1998). Deathcore breakdowns, melodic singing etc. What? Now that's not to say theese things are intrinsically bad, but in a Cryptopsy style setting, they both sound awful. Nah.
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0.0 | Roben | September 17th 19 | Theres bad albums and then theres The Unspoken King Cryptopsy's attempt at making music for scene children
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1.0 awful | Lichtbringer | February 2nd 19 | If the attempt of trying to pander to a mainstream audience wasn't unforgiveable enough, then it's the horrendously awful music contained in this recording.
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2.0 poor | Jared Floryan | November 1st 14 | This is coming from somebody who's only heard of Ungentle Exhumation and small bits of their latest self-titled album, but the members of Cryptopsy were not all right in the head when they issued The Unspoken King. If you look at it as a typical deathcore record released by some other band, then I suppose the results would turn out fine; because this came from a technical death metal band, though, Cryptopsy's sixth studio album was mostly uncalled for.
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1.0 awful | Holadrim | July 12th 11 | I dunno what the label was thinking when it allowed for the band to move so much away from the tech death it was trademarketing, and still release the ordeal... a slap in the face to the band's previous releases. Clean vocals? Metalcore riffs? It is a real blasphemy and any person interested in learning about what this band really is about should either burn or otherwise dispose of any evidence to that they have listened to this disgrace of an album... move back to listen in on 'None So Vile' and you'll know if you want to dwell deeper into this complexity of Canadian death metal or not.
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1.5 very poor | ThePalestMexican | July 5th 10 | Originally, when I took listen I thought this album would be a grower on me. Instead it grew farther apart from me with every listen. The obvious displays of talent from the bass, drums, guitars and even vocals are TOO terrible. It's just they are trying to do too many things at once, like stuck in a twilight zone of metalcore, deathcore, and technical abominations. The songs are disjointed in between chugs, breakdowns, and poor use of clean vocals. Avoid at all costs if you can.
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0.0 | Bitchfork | May 1st 10 | Back in '96, no one would have expected Cryptopsy to release this sonic vaginal belch. Literally a rehash of electronic music and deathcore, both of which are executed beyond terribly.
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0.0 | ConorMichaelJoseph | March 21st 09 | Cryptopsy go Deathcore, yay... not. Compared to None So Vile, this is pure tripe. While I have yet to hear anything better out of the Deathcore genre, this is still pretty average.
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1.0 awful | Psychaberration | January 17th 09 | Oh dear, something went horribly wrong here. I wish I could say this is as good as Cryptopsy in their prime. however I'm not inclined to lie.
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3.5 great | FunJan | December 13th 23 |
1.5 very poor | ffs | November 12th 23 |
4.5 superb | gfgfg11 | October 10th 23 |
1.5 very poor | Hawks | September 7th 23 |
2.0 poor | Logan | July 19th 23 |
4.0 excellent | KManoc1 | March 4th 23 |
3.5 great | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | June 20th 22 |
1.5 very poor | qt | January 9th 22 |
1.0 awful | Blurbs | December 19th 21 |
2.5 average | Jerrad | October 30th 21 |
1.5 very poor | Oobaloo | December 30th 20 |
1.5 very poor | gr8seas | June 10th 20 |
2.5 average | Halez | May 17th 20 |
2.0 poor | bSmith | April 20th 20 |
1.0 awful | KBP37 | March 30th 20 |
1.0 awful | AddiQui | February 26th 20 |
1.5 very poor | Vasilis S. CONTRIBUTOR | February 5th 20 |
1.0 awful | gk1979 | August 5th 19 |
1.0 awful | josh | June 10th 19 |
1.0 awful | Josh | May 1st 19 |
1.5 very poor | Casavir | April 5th 19 |
2.0 poor | Coast | February 13th 19 |
3.5 great | blou52 | February 7th 19 |
1.0 awful | ryguy | December 6th 18 |
2.5 average | Rausku | March 31st 18 |
2.0 poor | pengui | February 15th 18 |
1.5 very poor | P0laris | January 31st 18 |
3.0 good | Loch | January 20th 18 |
1.0 awful | Fear | December 29th 17 |
2.5 average | burcami | December 3rd 17 |
1.5 very poor | Risodo | November 8th 17 |
2.0 poor | AriDoe | October 14th 17 |
2.0 poor | Zecke | October 4th 17 |
2.5 average | Kris/KJ | August 11th 17 |
1.5 very poor | Pon EMERITUS | April 29th 17 |
1.5 very poor | Trundle | March 23rd 17 |
1.0 awful | Momos | March 6th 17 |
2.0 poor | 2ool | February 17th 17 |
1.5 very poor | Wolfe | November 29th 16 |
2.5 average | ckssr1 | June 27th 16 |
2.0 poor | Leymon | February 23rd 16 |
1.5 very poor | ICDD | February 12th 16 |
1.5 very poor | 8genre | January 5th 16 |
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2.5 average | "Tab" | September 15th 15 |
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1.5 very poor | carved | January 19th 15 |
3.0 good | Krimea | December 24th 14 |
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2.5 average | Mumakil | November 15th 14 |
1.5 very poor | Runeii | November 11th 14 |
1.5 very poor | VinVal | October 27th 14 |
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3.5 great | Fujay | April 20th 14 |
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1.5 very poor | Tyrael | March 2nd 14 |
5.0 classic | feea | December 27th 13 |
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1.0 awful | redtea | December 27th 13 |
1.5 very poor | Regalia | December 6th 13 |
2.0 poor | Smial | September 9th 13 |
1.5 very poor | Hati | July 18th 13 |
3.5 great | chayka | June 25th 13 |
1.5 very poor | ngebe | January 8th 13 |
1.0 awful | Zeg | December 30th 12 |
2.0 poor | CK | December 10th 12 |
5.0 classic | RYMHYR | November 17th 12 |
5.0 classic | rush474 | November 16th 12 |
4.0 excellent | DMheadMD | November 14th 12 |
5.0 classic | Cajgn12 | November 11th 12 |
2.5 average | jaya386 | October 25th 12 |
1.5 very poor | srm90 | October 19th 12 |
1.5 very poor | Sa1kon | October 12th 12 |
2.0 poor | Dizchu | September 29th 12 |
1.0 awful | Solisis | September 12th 12 |
1.0 awful | Meowza | August 25th 12 |
3.0 good | Trey STAFF | August 4th 12 |
1.5 very poor | DWiz | July 24th 12 |
1.0 awful | Winrar | July 16th 12 |
1.5 very poor | Andrew | March 24th 12 |
1.5 very poor | ANJ45 | March 13th 12 |
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1.0 awful | JamieDM | February 14th 12 |
1.5 very poor | TPAKTOP | January 31st 12 |
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1.0 awful | HiLion | October 23rd 11 |
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1.5 very poor | Headband | September 3rd 11 |
2.0 poor | Warpt | August 18th 11 |
1.0 awful | Aids | August 14th 11 |
1.0 awful | true | August 4th 11 |
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1.0 awful | Lakes2 | February 12th 11 |
4.0 excellent | YUJOS | January 26th 11 |
1.5 very poor | fulgrim | January 17th 11 |
1.0 awful | Ankan | January 10th 11 |
1.5 very poor | cvlts | December 30th 10 |
1.5 very poor | Inveigh | December 27th 10 |
3.0 good | asaf | December 22nd 10 |
2.5 average | met65 | November 17th 10 |
1.5 very poor | Jeejee | October 28th 10 |
1.0 awful | Vesper | October 12th 10 |
1.0 awful | vdop | October 11th 10 |
2.0 poor | rc1288 | October 8th 10 |
3.0 good | Nego | September 18th 10 |
3.0 good | gambs | September 16th 10 |
2.0 poor | Loot | September 12th 10 |
1.0 awful | MO | September 3rd 10 |
1.0 awful | Tfries | July 21st 10 |
1.5 very poor | Ckubet | June 12th 10 |
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1.5 very poor | LuTo | March 17th 10 |
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3.0 good | Krow | February 10th 10 |
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1.5 very poor | dch528 | January 10th 10 |
1.5 very poor | Manland | December 29th 09 |
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1.5 very poor | eternium | December 14th 09 |
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1.5 very poor | pride | November 15th 09 |
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2.5 average | Torii | September 8th 09 |
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2.0 poor | Isak | July 7th 08 |
1.5 very poor | Vortex | June 25th 08 |
1.5 very poor | Thor | June 25th 08 |
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