We are excited to work again with Cryptae, one of contemporary death metal’s most enigmatic and defiant entities who we’ve worked with ever since their first demo tape, as we ready the release of their new LP “Decrepit Collection", a retrospective vinyl compilation scheduled for release on vinyl and digital formats on September 3 2021 and pre-ordreable and streamable in full now via our Bandcamp and website shop.
"Decrepit Collection" is a glorious 12" vinyl compilation containing Cryptae’s unparalleled 2017 self titled debut demo tape on side A (for the first time ever on vinyl), and 2019's 20 minute single-track EP "Vestigal" on side B, both remastered to their their most sonically crushing form yet. This surreal artifact of complete sonic delirium revisits Cryptae's birth as an authentic error of creation and documents the early development of their hallucinatory and completely unprecedented sound as they threw derailing raw punk, spastic primitive death metal, rogue strains of underdeveloped noise and industrial and free-form improvisation into a deformed and glitched out experiment of aberrant abstract brutality.
TRACKLIST:
1. Glubroneus (05:30)
2. Ventrum (04:17)
3. Cryptae (01:47)
4. Maze (02:39)
5. Vestigial (18:49)
Cryptae made heads turn in 2017 with their insane self-titled debut demo tape, an hallucinogenic and erratic spasm of experimental raw death metal rooted in improvisation and free-form composition that instantly established them as an unpredictable and visionary anomaly in death metal. From its sophisticated minimalist and surreal aesthetic to the unclassifiable horrific music, the release instantly made the band standout as a complete absurdity in death metal, and while voluntarily cryptic and unaccessible, the demo tape was soon sold out shortly after release. The band then followed up in 2019 with “Vestigial” (released on vinyl in collaboration with Tartarus Records), a single track, twenty-minute delirium of experimental death metal improvisation that confirmed the band as a total untethered rogue entity within death metal. Debut full length LP “Nightmare Traversal" followed in 2020 to critical acclaim as the culmination of the band’s visionary experimentalism coupled with their isolationist confidence, talent and perseverance in wanting to create unheard death metal absurdities that lay on a plane of existence entirely their own. "Decrepit Collection" aims at revisiting the beginnings of the band’s creative output to re-trace and rediscover their incredible trajectory as one of the most visionary and defiant experiments in contemporary death metal.