- Audio CD (9 Nov 1998)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Century Media
- ASIN: B000AAVEWI
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 353,682 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Cryptopsy sound like Pantera in a blender. When I first heard this album I simply couldn't catch on any of the riffs. I couldn't sense the beginning of any bar. Even time signatures and tempo were undetectable. I felt sea-sick, and when I say sick I mean I felt physical nausea. All of this would have been an understandable response had I been an extreme music novice but at the time I thought I had heard most of what was to offer.
This is definately the heaviest band I have ever heard. Much heavier than Hate Eternal which I previously though were heavy.
Cryptopsy are fast, technical and fuzzy. Palm muted notes are used extensively on the guitar work but still everything blends into itself becoming an inpenetrable soup of distortion. After a few listens you can eventually start to hear individual notes though. The songs are good, but not shockingly so and the lyrics are passable. There is little childish gore obsession or extreme satanism but the cover art is plain bad.
The band does have big problems though. Firstly, they have a superb drummer who doesn't get enough clarity in the mix. Also, there is no two ways about it, the singer just doesn't cut it.
For such a monolithic sounding band, a really big voice is needed, something unprecedented. I have never seen the band live but I can guess that the singer is a small guy trying his best.
Probably their friend who they drafted in because they were in a spot of bother after losing their last vocalist. This is really a shame, imperfection makes me sad since it reminds me of all the things I'm no good at.
This is definately the heaviest band I have ever heard. Much heavier than Hate Eternal which I previously though were heavy.
Cryptopsy are fast, technical and fuzzy. Palm muted notes are used extensively on the guitar work but still everything blends into itself becoming an inpenetrable soup of distortion. After a few listens you can eventually start to hear individual notes though. The songs are good, but not shockingly so and the lyrics are passable. There is little childish gore obsession or extreme satanism but the cover art is plain bad.
The band does have big problems though. Firstly, they have a superb drummer who doesn't get enough clarity in the mix. Also, there is no two ways about it, the singer just doesn't cut it.
For such a monolithic sounding band, a really big voice is needed, something unprecedented. I have never seen the band live but I can guess that the singer is a small guy trying his best.
Probably their friend who they drafted in because they were in a spot of bother after losing their last vocalist. This is really a shame, imperfection makes me sad since it reminds me of all the things I'm no good at.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
For Cryptopsy's third album it's business as usual, with a wall of hyper-speed drumming and blisteringly intense brutal death metal. The only major change here is the debut of new vocalist Mike DiSalvo - on the one hand an improvement over Lord Worm in that you can actually make out the lyrics he's singing, but on the other hand he provides a fairly generic death metal voice. Jaw-droppingly technical as ever `Whisper Supremacy' is a great album, but it's not quite up to the level of the albums before and after it, lacking the brutal grinding style of `None So Vile' while the band would go on to perfect this more clinical death metal sound on next album `..And Then You'll Beg'.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album is a brilliant step forward in image, feel and style for cryptopsy. With the loss of Lord Worm, a different sound and musical feel emerged with Whisper Supremacy. In my opinion the new sound is incredible, the production on this record is great, although And Then You'll Beg improves on it even further.
From the first ambient intro of groans and blastbeats, it then launches very brutally into Emaciate which stops and stalls its intro riffs out before hitting the verse.
This album has some very catchy riffs, although towards some of the later songs it does seem a little hard to find something new and different in the songs, and it seems to become a little repetitive. However this could be due to me having had the album only a few days, and not having learnt the flow of the songs yet.
On this and their next album, it does take some time to actually learn how the songs go to be able to enjoy them, dont expect many singalong choruses or catchy bridges. This is flowing, technical brutality at a very high level.
I'd recommend this album to people who already have And Then You'll Beg or None so Vile, I dont think it is an incredible introduction to the band, but it is a good album.
You can see a definite difference between And Then You'll Beg and this album, and on And Then You'll Beg the style shown here is far more mature.
From the first ambient intro of groans and blastbeats, it then launches very brutally into Emaciate which stops and stalls its intro riffs out before hitting the verse.
This album has some very catchy riffs, although towards some of the later songs it does seem a little hard to find something new and different in the songs, and it seems to become a little repetitive. However this could be due to me having had the album only a few days, and not having learnt the flow of the songs yet.
On this and their next album, it does take some time to actually learn how the songs go to be able to enjoy them, dont expect many singalong choruses or catchy bridges. This is flowing, technical brutality at a very high level.
I'd recommend this album to people who already have And Then You'll Beg or None so Vile, I dont think it is an incredible introduction to the band, but it is a good album.
You can see a definite difference between And Then You'll Beg and this album, and on And Then You'll Beg the style shown here is far more mature.
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