Lord Worm's lyrics can be amazing. And very out there. Every once in a while he throws in something that sounds like a demented Oscar Wilde ("Nature abhors a vacuum; the same can be said of a tomb").
Also whatever all this means:
Touched by Jeqonthe Inciter,well-rounded womanfleshdoth temptthe Angels of the Watchto sin,and their Sons areNephilimThrice Blessed are we in His Garden:we have the Word, our health, our kin:as we "go forth and multiply,"we take from each other's skinEndogamy: the Choice of millionsin (all their) Elemental ugliness:in the echoes of Repetition,Imperfection sires itselfNothing in Lifehas any business being Perfect:it's an affrontto anyone with good tasteChoice is Divine,so choose Family over strangers;why trouble the Watersof the gene pool for a mate?Carbon Vesselcarbon contentcarbon copy...Carbonize...Like a lump between two surgeons,Man quivers 'twixt desire and need;the Law is the Will, and we've chosenthe Kingdom of Which we would beIn filial Sect,we are Genesis Incarnate:in our faces,see Manifest Destiny(and) leave nothing aliveWith thoughts of Heaven come deeds of flesh:we'd look once more upon His Holy Visage,and our children whom we've known and wed(are) our means to recreate His ImageIn lurking Fear of His Displeasureafter dark, between their cries,in the Eye of the Beholder:this is where Beauty dies
Thrice Blessed are we in His Garden:we have the Word, our health, our kin:as we "go forth and multiply,"we take from each other's skin
Endogamy: the Choice of millionsin (all their) Elemental ugliness:in the echoes of Repetition,Imperfection sires itself
Nothing in Lifehas any business being Perfect:it's an affrontto anyone with good taste
Choice is Divine,so choose Family over strangers;why trouble the Watersof the gene pool for a mate?
Carbon Vesselcarbon contentcarbon copy...Carbonize...
Like a lump between two surgeons,Man quivers 'twixt desire and need;the Law is the Will, and we've chosenthe Kingdom of Which we would be
In filial Sect,we are Genesis Incarnate:in our faces,see Manifest Destiny
(and) leave nothing alive
With thoughts of Heaven come deeds of flesh:we'd look once more upon His Holy Visage,and our children whom we've known and wed(are) our means to recreate His Image
In lurking Fear of His Displeasureafter dark, between their cries,in the Eye of the Beholder:this is where Beauty dies
― Devilock, Thursday, 14 May 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link
I need to hear a decent version of BMF. I used to have one of those awful remasters done from a crap mix. It was the worst of all worlds. I listened to some dude's vinyl copy over youtube and even through that could tell it sounded better than any I'd heard before.
― Devilock, Thursday, 14 May 2015 23:18 (nine years ago) link
And I do like the DiSalvo years. A different beast obviously.
― Devilock, Thursday, 14 May 2015 23:20 (nine years ago) link
Whisper Supremacy was great.
yeah I don't like the venue they're playing at next week here either but I'm still going.
but wtf at Levasseur leaving again. needs to make up his damn mind.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 15 May 2015 05:45 (nine years ago) link
lol is Flo the only original member? damn.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 15 May 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
He'll drum on one of your songs for $500.https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-fund-cryptopsy-s-the-book-of-suffering
Not as bizarre as the current Christian Death kickstarter tbf. (Valor Kand will baptize your baby or officiate your wedding for $2000. CD will play at your funeral for $20K.)
― Devilock, Friday, 15 May 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
I contributed to that kickstarter but only $5.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 15 May 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
they were awesome the other night. I actually liked the new song they debuted too.
I finally listened to some of Unspoken King and while I can see where the whining came from, it wasn't balls-out bad like I was expecting. not exactly memorable and terrible vocals but not exactly St Anger
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 23 May 2015 14:57 (nine years ago) link
Lord Worm's lyrics can be amazing.
What eventually got me into this band were the lyrics to Benedictine Convulsions; well, more the fact that there was a song called Benedictine Convulsions and that the lyrics read like a hallucinatory impression of one of those European Satan-panics like the one that happened at Loudun.
― Jim Gillette's unused octave (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 23 May 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
listening to None So Vile right now. holy fuck it is so fucking amazing! haven't gotten so hard into, like, any other death metal album
― imago, Thursday, 30 July 2015 19:24 (eight years ago) link
I think one of the things I like about None So Vile is that it has a little bit of looseness to the playing and production. They're obviously a proficient band but it doesn't have that almost asphyxiating tightness of, say, Effigy of the Forgotten.
― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 30 July 2015 19:36 (eight years ago) link
Which is also great, obviously!
it's loose and rangy and the songs move in kickass directions and it all grooves so sweetly. plus they have tunes! and they understand suspense!
― imago, Thursday, 30 July 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
Exactly!
― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 30 July 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
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― am0n, Thursday, 30 July 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
Love that Lord Worm was an English teacher.
― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 30 July 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link
it weirds me out a little that despite only Flo remaining from that era, the new EP just about inhabits the space between Whisper Supremacy and ...And Then You'll Beg.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 7 November 2015 02:54 (eight years ago) link
also they were really hella awesome earlier this year. I probably still am sore from hitting the deck during "Phobophile"
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 7 November 2015 02:55 (eight years ago) link
lol, apparently they've had 16 other people in the band at various times other than their current lineup. enough for four Cryptopsys! (5 and some change if they decided to be power trios)
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 7 November 2015 02:58 (eight years ago) link
They should do that thing King Crimson did once, where there are three trios playing at once.
― Capitalism Is A Death Cult And Science Is A Whore (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 7 November 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
Tripletopsy
I love Blasphemy Made Flesh but will never quite get why they seem to have shoved the guitar into only one side of the mix.
it's not like expanding the sound on NSV made the awesome bass inaudible.
still tho......"Defenestration" might just be one of their best tunes.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 7 January 2017 19:56 (seven years ago) link
I don't notice that in the mix on the reissue, do you have an earlier version? Agreed on Defenestration though.
― szyslakial moescreancy (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 20 January 2017 10:42 (seven years ago) link
the reissue sounds better yes.
going to see them do NSV live tonight in Atlanta. humorous to me that Flo is the only one in the band that even played on that thing but what do I care? the new band is tight and their last EP ripped.
I wonder if they'll play anything else after.
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 May 2017 21:07 (seven years ago) link
Decrepit Birth opening too!
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 27 May 2017 21:08 (seven years ago) link
I would be pretty happy if they just played NSV over again tbh
― the evening redness at the injection site (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 28 May 2017 08:58 (seven years ago) link
Oh man this was awesome. Phobophile got the place moving. I am sore af
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 May 2017 10:29 (seven years ago) link
Also finally got the elusive None So Vile shirt (they didn't have any but small last time) and it's a special tour version
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 May 2017 11:53 (seven years ago) link
vocalist Dan Greening (who would later take the name "Lord Worm" because he would dig up and ingest worms on stage)
well that's that mystery solved
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 02:28 (six years ago) link
Man, Once Was Not is pretty monstrous. I will totally stan for the DiSalvo* era but when they have Lord Worm there's just a weird chemistry nothing quite matches. And again the production on this record is so good, lots of air around everything.
* DiSalvo's one of two (or three or four) vocalists in Coma Cluster Void rn if anyone needs like uh discordant slabby brutal prog metal.
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 11:07 (six years ago) link
"Here Come the Cadaver Dogs" actually manages to be a song about serial killers that's kind of lyrically interesting.
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 11:16 (six years ago) link
Wait it's "Keeping the Cadaver Dogs Busy," was confusing them with the Monkees.
Here come the cadaver dogs:they'll find where the dead man lies;unlike us, they'll be soft with him,like he were thinning ice
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 11:19 (six years ago) link
I love Lord Worm's puckish sense of humor is what I'm saying.
― my dreams in the hell-pits (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 8 February 2018 08:24 (six years ago) link
I still love these guys. the Book of Suffering EPs were really nice. I want another full length.
would be nice if Levasseur would rejoin again, his guitar tone/riff style is hard to mimic (though Donaldson does a fairly good job).
i'm actually pleasantly surprised how well Mounier plus 4 unoriginal members do at replicating the authentic Topsy sound. much like Suffocation, though they still have Terrence Hobbs.
i saw photos of my trip three years ago to ATL to see them do None So Vile front to back. one of the most fun nights of my life. nothing beats hearing the drastic tempo shift in "Phobophile" and being in the pit as hell breaks loose. I remember getting thrown towards a merch table by a careening mosher during that song once, and upon landing on the table and almost knocking it over, and being apologetic. whereas the merch girl looked at me, grinning, and THEN SHOVED ME BACK INTO THE PIT, saying "c'mon, get back out there!"
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Sunday, 31 May 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link
going to listen to as much Topsy as I can tonight
starting with Blasphemy Made Flesh.
\m/.
this is underrated, it isn't NSV but it isn't that far off.
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 04:28 (two years ago) link
Whisper Supremacy is so good but wow is it different, that production seems more like the death metal production of today, so scooped and with all frequencies kinda mushed together.
"Emaciate" is one of my favorite Topsy songs, but it's definitely not the savage beast of NSV.
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 23:03 (two years ago) link
Whisper is a great record but that "demon torso with a tapeworm" cover is hilarious
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 24 December 2021 10:41 (two years ago) link
haha yeah. the whole thing has a bit of a "bro" vibe or something, but yeah, it's good. "cold hate, warm blood" def classic. I think I like it a little more than most because it was the only cryptopsy record a friend had and I heard it in his car a lot.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 25 December 2021 06:01 (two years ago) link
it was the first one I owned because None So Vile was out of print (at the time - now it's been re-released so much I think I've owned three different versions of it)
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Saturday, 25 December 2021 06:31 (two years ago) link
new album coming, and TOUR baby (I think Abysmal Dawn is also support at all shows)
09/07 Manchester, NH @ Jewel Nightclub *09/08 Brooklyn, NY @ Meadows *09/09 Clifton, NJ @ Dingbatz *09/10 Pittsburgh, PA @ Preserving Underground *09/11 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade (Hell) *09/12 Tampa, FL @ The Brass Mug *09/14 Houston, TX @ Scout Bar *09/15 Austin, TX @ Come and Take it Live *09/16 Dallas, TX @ TBA *09/17 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad *09/18 Las Vegas, NV @ Backstage Bar *09/19 Mesa, AZ @ Nile Underground *09/20 San Diego, CA @ Brick by Brick #09/21 Los Angeles, CA @ 1720 #09/22 San Francisco, CA @ DNA Lounge #09/23 Roseville, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post #09/24 Portland, OR @ Dante’s #09/25 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon #09/26 Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theater #09/27 Boise, ID @ The Shredder #09/29 Denver, CO @ HQ #09/30 Lincoln, NE @ Cosmic Eye Live #10/01 Joliet, IL @ The Forge #10/02 Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme #10/03 Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace #10/04 Kingston, ON @ Overtime Sports Bar #10/05 Quebec City, QC @ La Source de la Martinière #10/06 Montreal, QC @ Foufounes Electriques #
*with Hate#with Visceral Disgorge
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 14:45 (ten months ago) link
new one's good! at this point their style just seems like an amalgamation of all of the styles they've played throughout their career (sans Unspoken King). I do feel like Flo's brilliance gets lost sometimes in the hypersterilized production and McGachy is kinda just there as a vocalist, but the playing is tight and it's a good slate of songs, nice middle ground between caveman death metal and boring, noodly 21st century tech death. good late period album and I'll be bumping it lots.
― Make the chats AI (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 September 2023 15:50 (eight months ago) link