Monday, March 10, 2025

Entry 1063 - Krypts - Cadaver Circulation


Style: Atmospheric death metal

Primary Emotions/Themes: Death and decay... all life will be consumed and returned to where we came

Thoughts: Death comes for us all. A morbid reminder that we are not long for this world. The planet will continue to exist with  or without us. It will continue to vomit itself through space wither or not our heart beats or or lungs draw breath. It will continue to exist... we will not. 

This is the reality that Krypts reminds me of every time I listen to them. Their music delivers this reality every time the needle drops on one of their records. The life that is in this body will fade. The ears that hear this music will rot. The enjoyment I get out of life will fade. Death comes for us all, there is no escape.

These seven songs are crushingly heavy. They move as a glacier would through the ocean, slow yet unstoppable. The vocals are deep and bellow like a creature from an unknown depth, alien to this world. The riffs themselves are typically composed of singular notes that are strummed slowly to build into a massive behemoth before the listener even is aware of what is happening. 

Rarely does the music go beyond a middling pace, and that is one of it's greatest strengths. It is inevitable. There is nothing that you can do to stop it's slow progression. As time moves ever forward, so does the music and it will crush anything that stands in it's way. 

Krypts create some of the best death metal that I have in my collection. The slow and dredged feel of the music appeals to me greatly, much more so than most standard death metal these days. I wish that they would come out with more albums, but this is an easy example of quality over quantity. If this and Remnants of Expansion are the only two albums I get from the band it'll be more than enough to satiate me.

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