[Blazingmonga]

I thought it was pretty good!

I mean, would you expect it to be better?

Wow, that was fucking terrible.

[djskrimp]

I respect your opinion, Matt, but I don't completely agree. It wasn't bad. The sound was decent, and given the sheer number of elements in that song that are required to hit on all cylinders to work, I thought it was a pretty decent effort.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS? They fucking ruined one of the best Strapping songs by making another one of those shitty watered down generic metal tracks that you hear in Hot Topic all the time. Fuck, the singer fucking sucks, he's just singing exactly what Devin sings, except not good. Jesus Christ, this is a fucking embarrassment.

[djskrimp]

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS? They fucking ruined one of the best Strapping songs by making another one of those shitty watered down generic metal tracks that you hear in Hot Topic all the time. Fuck, the singer fucking sucks, he's just singing exactly what Devin sings, except not good. Jesus Christ, this is a fucking embarrassment.

Dude, order of magnitude. How the hell can ANYONE but SYL do a SYL song right? I mean, seriously? I have to give them kudos for not bungling it as bad as they could have.

I'm getting mellow in my old age.

Yeah, what really ruins this is the vocal delivery, which just seems to be trying to be "extreme" and lacks the tongue in cheek nature of Devin's vocal work. Nothing to get too worked up about, though.

would've been alright if they still had lord worm.

All I can say is my personal opinion is that it's average at best. The musicianship is great but those vocals, maaan they are gaawd awful but then he is getting compared to Dev's amazing vocal range so I spose it is a good effort.
I just don't think anyone should bother trying to do a cover of a SYL or Devy song if their vocals arent strong enough to even give the song some emotion and power/presence. Kudos of course for going ahead and doing it, like I said the musicianship is pretty good but can't help but cringe at the vox.
Anyone know if Cryptopsy's other material is worth a listen.

Anyone know if Cryptopsy's other material is worth a listen.

This is a request for recommendations?

Well, I personally would avoid Cryptopsy's newest, but if you're into the more technical forms of deathcore (with a few instances of straight up clean vocals, at that), I'd imagine you'd like it. The new one is the only one that has the vocalist featured in this cover. As far as the rest of their discography goes, the first two with Daniel Greening (Lord Worm) on vocals are my favorites (Both are dark, doomy prototypical brutal death metal with minor Suffocation influences), but the next two after them with DiSalvo are good for what they are, which is chaotic technical extreme metal more in congruence with the modern Canadian tech death scene. The one before the last with Greening back in the fold, Once Was Not was alright, but it was merely an extension of ...And Then You'll Beg as far as music goes.

Wow I just heard their cover -
You can tell it was a solid effort, but I just don't think it was happening. You could tell they really tried though. It's just OMFG would be a really hard song to cover for anyone!

That cover is weak at best

I'm a freak for covers, but this one was disapointing.

[Blazingmonga]

Wow I just heard their cover -
You can tell it was a solid effort, but I just don't think it was happening. You could tell they really tried though. It's just OMFG would be a really hard song to cover for anyone!

I agree.

I am not surprised that a lot of the folk here don't like it...it is a pretty mental song to try and cover. I think they did a great job to come up with what they did!

I'd like to hear a flamenco version, with Gwen Stefani on vocals.

Anyone know if Cryptopsy's other material is worth a listen.

This is a request for recommendations?

Well, I personally would avoid Cryptopsy's newest, but if you're into the more technical forms of deathcore (with a few instances of straight up clean vocals, at that), I'd imagine you'd like it. The new one is the only one that has the vocalist featured in this cover. As far as the rest of their discography goes, the first two with Daniel Greening (Lord Worm) on vocals are my favorites (Both are dark, doomy prototypical brutal death metal with minor Suffocation influences), but the next two after them with DiSalvo are good for what they are, which is chaotic technical extreme metal more in congruence with the modern Canadian tech death scene. The one before the last with Greening back in the fold, Once Was Not was alright, but it was merely an extension of ...And Then You'll Beg as far as music goes.

Mandatory ownership of None So Vile should be law for metal fans. I have yet to hear a better death metal song than Phobophile. All others are discretionary. The Disalvo era was great musically but really lacked the ominous gutterals and piercing shreiks that were Lord Worm's claim to fame. Everything after ...And Then You'll Beg is average at best. Lord Worm's return (from teaching little children) was an enormous disappointment. Line-up changes have killed the once heralded "Best Technical Death Metal Band".

they should rename to "Flo and Friends" and just get it over with.