Cryptopsy Release NSFW Video for “Malicious Needs”

These JUNO Award winners have worn the horned crown as the most vile band in death metal since the mid-’90s. But with the latest single off their upcoming ninth album, Cryptopsy are making blasphemy sound fresh. “Malicious Needs” feeds into a human urge that is so revolting, so shameful, that it couldn’t be shown on YouTube. Still, even the censored version of the new video from An Insatiable Violence uncovers the evil obsessions that lie beneath our digital fantasies.

Watch the video for “Malicious Needs” on the Season of Mist YouTube channel.

https://youtu.be/Z5ICb_UWTGo

An Insatiable Violence comes out June 20 on Season of Mist.

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The concept for An Insatiable Violence came to Cryptopsy in a dream. A person spends all day building a machine, only for it to torture them through the night. As if that thought wasn’t malicious enough, this person likes being tortured. In fact, they like it so much that, come morning, they wake up feeling rejuvenated, eager to tweak their creation until it runs perfectly in their mind.

“When I woke up, I grabbed my phone and wrote down the words that would become the title of our new album”, says vocalist Matt McGachy. “Because, you know, we all have to have our phones with us all the time”.

While nightmarish, An Insatiable Violence feeds into our all-too-real obsession with social media. “It’s something that I don’t like about myself”, admits McGachy, who’s caught himself spending more and more time online since starting his Vox & Hops podcast. “I’m trying to break the cycle, but on those days where I’m just doom scrolling, I get so depressed”.

“Malicious Needs” is the final frenzied feeding on An Insatiable Violence, so it’s appropriate that the song’s video brings its dark fantasy to a truly crushing conclusion. Things start innocently enough. A bald-faced CEO of the not at all nefarious sounding “Neural System Corporation” takes pity on one of his cash-strapped underlings. But when this social media engineer gets a little too addicted to his boss’ hidden scheme, their office culture really goes to hell.

“The cold steel / sends shivers down my spine“, McGachy growls in sadistic pleasure. “I yearn for its touch. The malefaction divine“.

Though eerily prescient about our latest brain rotting obsession, An Insatiable Violence is influenced by the many mutations that have spawned Cryptopsy’s Hall of Fame discography. The cover art for their new album was created by the band’s late, great vocalist Martin Lacroix, who would scream in ear-piercing delight at the freshly dug depths of McGachy’s gutturals. “We did at least 140 shows since our last album. While performing None So Vile and Blasphemy Made Flesh, I exclusively did my false chord screams. When we did go into the studio for our new album, Chris would be like, ‘Deeper, you must go deeper!'”

Even the beating heart of Cryptopsy pumps out some unheard tricks of the trade on An Insatiable Violence. “Since our last album, I’ve developed techniques that make it easier for us to go even faster”, says Flo Mounier, who literally wrote the book on extreme metal drumming. “Malicious Needs” is cracked open by blast beats so raw and unnerving that they’re impossible to program. Producer/ architect of the fishhook riff Christian Donaldson and brutal bass technician Oli Pinnard lock into a thick, neck-breaking groove that’s scrambled by haywire hammer-ons and fret slaps. But as the song’s video reveals its stomach-turning twist, the band bust out a new finishing move, slithering to a crawl before soaring like a bat through blackened clouds of smoke.

“‘Malcious Needs’ is the last song that we wrote for An Insatiable Violence and right away, we were all completely enamored with it”, Cryptopsy says. “It has a very weird, mechanical, rhythmic ambiance, which was brought to life by the dystopian horror story that you see in the video”.    

Feast your eyes on the new vileness from Cryptopsy.

The video for “Malicious Needs” was directed by Gornoss.

Additional video credits

Visual Effects & Editing
Gornoss 📸 @gornoss

Gore Makeup FX
Laurent Smiejczak  @tasmdead.realistikfx

Location Supervisor
Stéphane Perazzi

Cast

Romain Gonçalves — John (main character) 📸 @romaingoncalves_act

Hervé Laget — The CEO 📸 @objectif_foto

Andréa Deronzier — Andrea (the secretary) 📸 @andrea_deronzier

Aude Ly — Aude (office colleague) 📸 @aude_visuel

Renan “Ulcer” Garriguenc — Renan (colleague) 📸 @ulcer.me

Paco “RK” Charry — Paco (colleague) 📸 @paco_rk

Antonio Santolino — Antonio (colleague)

With the support of

Metropole Toulon Provence Méditerranée

Jonathan Martin — Development Officer

Barbara Occhini — Project Officer

Laurence Goniot — Head of Filming Office

The Nimis Adoration (4:10) Until There's Nothing Left (3:59) Dead Eyes Replete (3:57) Fools Last Acclaim (3:26) The Art of Emptiness (4:16) Our Great Deception (4:21) Embrace the Nihility (3:50) Malicious Needs (5:52)