Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy
Our Price: $9.99
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $4.30 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more new music releases
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
Music CD Cover
Artist: CryptopsyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-09-22
Music Label: Century Media
Soundtracks:
- Emaciate
- Cold Hate, Warm Blood
- Loathe
- White Worms
- Flame To The Surface
- Depths You've Fallen
- Faceless Unknown
- Serpent's Coil
Free Music Notes for Whisper Supremacy
Free Music Review: One of the best death metal albums ever made
Hit: 5 Stars
Cryptopsy's previous effort, "None So Vile" is easily my most listened to death metal album ever (with Suffocation's "Pierced From Within", another fantastic album, as a runner up). After picking this up recently, I'm starting to think this is going to give it competition! I was sure I had experienced the best this band had to offer with the more ambitious and diverse "Once Was Not", but even as absolutely relentless as it is, "Whisper Supremacy" is truly an equally creative effort.
Cryptopsy always distinguished themselves from the death metal pack with their ridiculous, boundless energy, for which amazing drummer Flo Mounier is primarily responsible. Even when using the same techniques as other bands, they just always seemed to ROCK harder, somehow. Every bit of the energy of the classic "None So Vile" is here, but their newfound technical style allows for even more repeated listening.
It's obvious here that the same person is doing the riff-writing as on "None So Vile", and the riffs are equally memorable and groovy as they were there. Fans of that album will find plenty of riffs that wouldn't have been out of place on it, but there are a wealth of new elements as well. The rhythms here are simply clever and unique. Melody plays a greater part here than on any other Cryptopsy album except "Once Was Not", and it's is arguably better integrated into the songs here than on that album. Even though the songs all fit into the same general style, each has some wildly creative element that distinguishes it.
"Cold Hate, Warm Blood", as many may have mentioned, is a masterpiece of a song. For the first time in a Cryptopsy song, the melody develops throughout the piece. The jazzy break that opens the song provides the main theme, which mutates and bends into various heavier permutations until the jazzy break appears again in a highly evolved and extended reprise. The song is final proof positive that Cryptopsy's songwriting is neither chaos nor nonsense. The other major highlights, for me, are opener "Emaciate", "Loathe", for its absolutely insane final moments, and "Flame to the Surface" for its strange and creative rhythmic structure. "Faceless Unknown" has an extremely short but memorable, almost ambient break, as well, to haunting effect.
New vocalist Mike DiSalvo sounds fantastic, in my opinion, sounding a bit higher than what is typical in death metal, but sounding hardly out of place. I have to disagree with the sort of complaints I typically hear about him... he's too decipherable? Compared to Lord Worm, maybe! (He is among the most unintelligible death vocalists I've ever heard... not that that's bad) I, for one, still can't understand him most of the time, and find Frank Mullen of Suffocation, for example, much easier to decipher. Many classic death metal bands, like Obituary, to use one example, have vocalists that growl at a pitch similar to this, and in my opinion people who say he would be more suited to a 'hardcore' band are far too concerned about their metal sub-genres mixing.
In summary, this is one of the most energetic, creative, heavy, relentless albums I've ever heard. When it ends, I wish it hadn't. A masterpiece. 5 stars.
This could convert the death metal hater, potentially. Anyone already into death metal should buy it immediately. Don't let the anti-DiSalvo rants throw you off.
Pop Music CDs
Music Genres
Top music charts in Nineties bands w/ interesting bass lines
Isis - OceanicRelease date: 2002-09-17; Music CD
Best price: $10.96
Price in other shops:
WatershedRelease date: 2008-06-03; Music CD
Best price: $27.95
Price in other shops:
Enslaved - RuunRelease date: 2006-05-02; Music CD
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops:
My Dying Bride - A Line of Deathless KingsRelease date: 2006-10-31; Music CD
Best price: $9.45
Price in other shops:
Old Man's Child - Ill-Natured Spiritual InvasionRelease date: 1998-06-23; Music CD
Best price: $6.36
Price in other shops:
Candiria - What Doesn't Kill You...Release date: 2004-07-13; Music CD
Best price: $6.68
Price in other shops:
Atheist - Unquestionable PresenceRelease date: 2005-08-30; Music CD
Best price: $9.78
Price in other shops:
Dying Fetus - War of AttritionRelease date: 2007-03-06; Music CD
Best price: $8.98
Price in other shops:
Marilyn Manson - The Golden Age of GrotesqueRelease date: 2003-05-13; Music CD
Best price: $8.80
Price in other shops:
Meshuggah - ObzenRelease date: 2008-03-11; Music CD
Best price: $8.00
Price in other shops:
Top Rated Albums
Nile - Annihilation of the WickedNILE; Release date: 2005-05-24; Music CD
Best price: $9.00
Price in other shops:
Nile - IthyphallicRelease date: 2007-07-17; Music CD
Best price: $9.40
Price in other shops:
Necrophagist - Onset of PutrefactionRelease date: 2008-01-13; Music CD
Best price: $24.76
Price in other shops:
Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-KaRelease date: 1998-04-28; Music CD
Best price: $11.41
Price in other shops:
Cryptopsy - Once Was NotRelease date: 2005-10-18; Music CD
Best price: $6.99
Price in other shops:
Nile - Black Seeds of VengeanceRelease date: 2000-09-05; Music CD
Best price: $11.17
Price in other shops:
Necrophagist - EPITAPHNECROPHAGIST; Release date: 2004-08-03; Music CD
Best price: $11.53
Price in other shops:
Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made FleshRelease date: 2001-02-20; Music CD
Best price: $6.05
Price in other shops:
Cryptopsy - And Then You'll BegRelease date: 2000-10-31; Music CD
Best price: $5.99
Price in other shops:
Cryptopsy - None So VileRelease date: 2001-04-17; Music CD
Best price: $7.83
Price in other shops: