Cryptopsy Premiere ‘An Insatiable Violence’

More than three decades removed from their ungentle exhumation from the Canadian underground, Cryptopsy are truly more insatiable than ever. A year after winning a JUNO Award, the band have been reeling off cryptic teasers and blasphemous videos to feed pit-dwelling faithful ahead of their upcoming ninth album. While eerily prescient of our latest unholy obsession, An Insatiable Violence proves once more that Cryptopsy are the most vile band in death metal.

“An Insatiable Violence is as explosive, violent and technical as anything in their catalogue”, Blabbermouth says in a 8.5/10 review. “For fans of ruthless, boundary smashing brutality, this is a gift from the death metal gods”.

“Cryptopsy proves that even after decades of dominance, they remain hungry – hungry to evolve, to experiment, and to push the limits of brutal death metal” writes Lambgoat in a 8/10 review. “Far from resting on their laurels, the band has crafted an album that feels both contemporary and timeless”.

An Insatiable Violence comes out tomorrow, Friday, June 20, but you can hear all eight brutally technical tracks today by listening to the full album stream on the Season of Mist YouTube channel.

“When writing An Insatiable Violence we focused on creating a far more digestible Cryptopsy record”, the band says. “We did this by adding more groove sections, more melodic moments and allowed the musical passages to breathe a bit more than on our previous releases.

“Whatever we do nowadays, we always take extreme care to honor the band’s legacy.  It is extremely important to us.  But at the same time, we never want to repeat ourselves. We strive to be loyal to our sound while constantly evolving. It’s a fine balance between up-keeping the legacy and remaining relevant.

“Another huge aspect that we focused on while crafting this record was introducing a sense of dread and malaise to the songs. We wanted people to feel disoriented and dirty after listening to it.

“We are extremely proud of what we have created and can’t wait for everyone to have the chance to experience it!”

Listen to An Insatiable Violence
https://youtu.be/wFWOsXUM2JEPre-order
https://orcd.co/cryptopsyaninsatiableviolencePre-save on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/prerelease/68bFcUq3E7rilegbUCwexu?si=56ImYUobTLe2WyguJnMEFQChat with Cryptopsy about their new album during next week’s Reddit AMA.

An Insatiable Violence Reddit AMA
r/Metal
Thursday, June 26 @ Noon Eastern Time

https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/cryptopsyama

A person spends all day building a machine, only for it to torture them through the night. As if that wasn’t twisted enough, they like it. In fact, they like being tortured so much that, come morning, they wake up rejuvenated, eager to tweak the machine until it runs perfectly in their mind.

This is the nocturnal vision that inspired Cryptopsy’s ninth full-length nightmare. “The lyrical concept came from this dream I had”, the band’s vocalist Matt McGachy told Metal Injection. “The human race is the person and the machine is social media”.

An Insatiable Violence mirrors society’s toxic screen fetish. “Dead Eyes Replete” glimpses into the real life horrors of kidfluencing. “Beware the spotlight” McGachy flashes with his signature bat-like shriek just before the band slam into a career-best breakdown. But while painfully pressing, An Insatiable Violence is influenced by the many mutations that have defined the band’s Hall of Fame discography. Inspired by a mukbang gone horribly wrong, ravenous opener “The Nimis Adoration” is a smorgasbord of gut-busting blasts, Christian Donaldson’s fishhook riffs and a heavy helping of headbanging groove.

Cryptopsy recognize that not every brutal technical death metal band sticks around long enough to win a Canadian Grammy 30 years into their career. The cover for An Insatiable Violence was created by the band’s late, great vocalist Martin Lacroix, who would growl with unholy delight over the freshly fetid depths of McGachy’s false chord scream. Another former vocalist returns on “Embrace the Nihility” to stomp out any whispering doubts of his supremacy.

But despite having claimed the crown as the most vile band in death metal on only their second stab in the studio, Cryptopsy are still pushing the limits of extremity on An Insatiable Violence. The album’s lead single bumps and grinds to the oddball bounce of Olivier Pinard’s gruesome bass slaps. And yet, at its core “Until There’s Nothing Left” stakes its claim as Cryptopsy’s biggest earworm. Even Flo Mounier has honed new techniques to keep the blasphemy fresh. “We are always pushing each other”, Mounier said in a separate interview with Metal Injection. “Let’s go for a ride”. For the album’s finishing move, “Malicious Needs” slithers to a crawl before ascending like a bat into a blackened cloud of smoke.

Bow to the new vileness from extreme metal royalty.

More advanced praise for An Insatiable Violence

“Fans of Cryptopsy will not be dissapointed….An Insatiable Violence is going to be an insatiable earworm for death metal fans across the board” – BangerTV (4/5)

“Devastating grooves, brooding melodies and hyper blast tempos come together in a way that only Cryptopsy is able to harness properly” – Dead Rhetoric (9.5/10)

“Cryptopsy are still kings of brutal technical death metal” – Bravewords (9/10)

This record just begs for repeated listens, and Cryptopsy has proven once again to be one of Death Metal’s most vital bands. While modern day DM outfits spin their superficial, uber-technical wheels, these boys just bring it as it was always meant to be brought: with unrelenting brutality and no bullshit songwriting methods” – Metal Bite (9/10)

“This is brutal music for sure, but it’s a reflection of a world that is brutal, even in the places that were meant to offer us an escape from its horrors” – Metal Lair (4.5/5)

“Cryptopsy are undoubtedly at the top of the food chain when it comes to Canadian Death Metal, and An Insatiable Violence will certainly fuel them for a lot more in the near future, beautifully spreading their violence and passion for heavy music to all four corners of the earth” – The Headbanging Moose (4/5)

“Cryptopsy is like a fine wine and just gets better over time and is a band that is willing to push their sound, test different genres and musical influences, and continue to deliver a commanding and powerful sonic assault of technical brutal death metal that this band has perfected over thirty years” – Frozen Moon Promotions (4.5/5)

“An Insatiable Violence continues to reaffirm the fact that the modern day incarnation of Cryptopsy are still a band very much at the top of their game…and look likely to stay there” – No Clean Singing

“…in terms of sheer ferocity, there is nothing remotely close in 2025 that is touching this as of me writing this review. An Insatiable Violence is the most perfect name for this album – beyond devastating!” – Teeth of the Divine

“They are indeed back and dare I say better than they’ve been in years” – Nine Circles

“…this is still a brutal-sounding Cryptopsy album, but perhaps one of the most accessible albums from them in a long time” – A&P Reacts

“An Insatiable Violence is a superb record, an emphatic statement from an icon of the genre that they remain elite within the death metal space” – The Razor’s Edge

“These new songs are extremely satisfying. There is no filler here, no pointless interludes or extraneous fat, just a lean killing machine that is thirsting for blood” – Wonderbox Metal

“This is a concept album about the ways that social media can possess you. Each song is memorable yet insane, capturing this evil in unimaginable ways. Every member also puts everything into this album, resulting in some mind-blowing solos, funky bass lines, and inhuman drumming” – Infernal TV

“Cryptopsy’s machine is firing on all cylinders here, and damned if it isn’t a lovely feeling to be tortured by something so harnessed and brutally ugly” – Black Angel Promotions

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)