Style: Atmospheric death metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: The abyss is vast and gaping, don't get too close or it will draw you in
Thoughts: Space is vast. It is so vast that my tiny human brain cannot fathom the smallest portion of it. My existence is so incredibly insignificant compared to the full of the cosmos that it makes me wonder what the point of life is sometimes. Nothing I do matters in the long run, nothing I do will be remembered... we are just a random assortment of molecules that came about purely by chance. We are nothing but dust in the wind.
Remnants of Expansion echos these thoughts and feelings to near perfection. The music echos throughout the universe as it decays into nothingness. The guitars reverberate until there is nothing left, scattered to the void like the nothing we are. The vocals howl into the abyss as it swallows up the sonic reverberations and returns everything to null. This is the state of Krypts, this is the state of the universe.
The music is slow for the most part, and it relies heavily on a contrast with silence. The riffs are long and are allowed to drag out until they decay into the depths of space. Everything that has been made will be unmade. Everything that is will be destroyed. This is the way of Krypts.
Remnants of Expansion is an excellent death metal album. It has an atmosphere that many bands strive for, yet they come up short. Krypts has managed to reach into the abyss and pull a tiny bit of it's nothingness into their music. This is the essence of Krypts music... the very essence of the universe itself.
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