This album is god-tier. Crypta "Echoes of the Soul" is my 2021 best heavy metal debut album of the year. I cleared out 9 albums in my top 150 albums stacks, to make room for this timeless masterpiece. Myself i am getting 30 copies of this molten metal masterpiece. A copy, for each year for ages 54 to 84 years young at heart. Crypta "Echoes of the Soul" 10 out of 10. This molten metal timeless masterpiece will be on tons of top 100 heavy metal albums of the year list for the year 2021.
It's epic. 3.5/5 is harsh. It's at least a 4. Maybe coz they're girls he can't bring himself to full marks. It's the best death metal I've heard in ages and I've been there since the very beginning in 1982 when I bought Venom Black Metal as a teenager.
Super Epic International Death Metal debut if you ask me 💀 BTW, Co-lead guitarist Sonia is definitely one of the best Rock/Metal shredders these days & this album has some great solos she’s come up with; but this isn’t the only new band she’s coming up with on the horizon: last year she formed Cobra Spell, which is a mind boggling 180 switch because of the decidedly more melodic 80s inspired Hard Rock/Glam/Heavy Metal sound & al the flashy/technical musicianship that was all the rage during such era 🎸 🐍 👍 ☝️
Why is she wasting her talent in Cobra Spell? They are cheesy as fuck. As soon as I heard the singer and his 'pretty baby' I clicked over. They're an 80s joke band.
Holy shit, I discovered your channel recently, Crypta is one of the best Brazilian bands. This album is magnificent, I can't wait for the new album in August! 🤘🏾🖤🇧🇷
Dark Night of the Soul not being the closer song reaally bothered me too, but it's a great album, I'm proud of those girls, making the metal world remember that Brazil has great stuff.
06:39 sounds like Sepultura arise album riffs. All good tho. Surprised you didn't mention semblance with the band DEATH Individual Thought Patterns for lots of their songs which is a huge compliment Chuck Schuldiner leaves big shoes to fill!
So I’ve watched their “inside the studio” type video here on RU-vid, on the Napalm Records channel. There’s two parts. For the gear heads, I present the following: - All rhythms guitars were tracked by Sonia. Playing her Jackson with EMGs (81/85), through a Peavey 6505+, coming out of a Marshall cab. Very classic, old school metal. - Leads we’re tracked by both Sonia and Tainá. Again with a Peavey 6505+. But they used different cabs and such. And Tainá has Duncan Solar pups in her Solar V guitar. - Fernanda used a Gallien-Krueger with a SansAmp bass driver. She didn’t specifically say what cab, but in the video she shows us the Gallien-Krueger, and it’s sitting atop a 5150 cab. Not sure that was what made it onto the album, but it’s a safe guess. You can find the video on the Napalm Records channel. It’s called “Crypta - Studio Report.” Luana talks a lot of technical specifics of her drum set up for the album. I absolutely love this album. It’s got that old school charm, but still has enough of a modern feel to it.
I’d been holding off on this album for some dumb unexplained reason, so luckily all it took was Blayne to make me finally do the right thing and check it out. Thanks, Blayne!
That's the problem with metal nowadays, if you let the song breathe a little bit the metalheads go rogue, that's why metal songs nowadays are more like an oversaturated pile of show off riff madness instead of just a you know... A song!
@@TheFrogfrog1, he's just too used to the modern metal ornamentation, I'm a musician and I know that I have to leave no space in a song to make people/critics shut up, and you know what? They still won't ever shut up. You can be sure they will find more stuff to complain about.
That Lowen album you shouted out at the end, I know you kind of have to describe it using genre conventions, but man my wife and I cracked up at that perfectly fitting the "Tell me you're stoner doom without telling me you're stoner doom" meme format. I don't often go for death metal; I tend to be pretty picky with the genre, as my metal tastes skew more towards the sullen (atmospheric black metal, funeral doom, post, etc) than the aggressive, but something about this Crypta album grabbed my ear; going to have to give them a listen. Thanks for covering them.
Yeah, Nervosa just had the one guitarist, and she is a decent player, but not great-no sweeping arpeggios, simple solos. Nanda was brilliant in selecting a dual-guitar ensemble, and those girls are very good players-nice harmony lines, and tasty swept arpeggios.
@@rushshukla4636 I didn’t mean that she isn’t technical, just that she’s rock solid and plays for the song rather than showing off her (exeptional) technique. Still, the chorus for shadow withing was my biggest drumrelated ”what the fuck was that”-moment of the year 😄
Really good review. My main impression listening to the album was that Individual Thought Patterns, by Death, was a huge influence. Favorite track: "From the Ashes"
Crypta and Lowen, both projects are amazing. I highly recommend purchasing the very last copies of the Lowen vinyl. From the previous release...also...you can add the new CD from the EP too. These folks are nice people. Regarding Crypta, man I lived more than 25 years at the Brazilian slums and I can tell you this....doing music in Brazil is a completely different level of brutality compared with first world countries. When I say brutality is that we really LIVE in war all the time. Violence. Corruption. Unemployment. Hunger. Low quality of life. And even after facing those conditions we still have very talented people doing very good music. We do not take as granted anything!!! For those reasons I humbly ask any of you to give some support for any Brazilian band. Take care folks!!
Phenomenal record, the personality they managed to put into it made this record something unique and different from what is out there. Probably the first female band in this style.
I have listened to the entire thing a few times. SO much good stuff. There are a few moments in the middle that seem to be a bit of an afterthought, but no record is perfect. Over all I LOOOOOOVE it. I hope their next release is full of songs like From the Ashes. That song has EVERYTHING in and I feel really is the style they need to encompass in the future. I am obsessed with it.
Excellent and fair critique of this album. I hate intro froth too. The production is excellent! You are always hilarious, Blayne or is it Blaine? 🤘🏻💀🤘🏻
I think Violet Cold's Empire of Love album is worthy of some thoughtful coverage, more for what it represents than the music, possibly. But, nevertheless, an important release that seems to be polarising opinions.
Sometimes I wish Fernanda would just sing like Bruce Dickinson on Somewhere in Time but I know all the Death Metal nerds would have a heart valve burst and proceed to cry and whine into the forever abyss
According to some of the comments I'm not going to bother watching this review. This album is incredibly good. Great singer, great drummer, great ladies with their own sound. Although it isn't unique what they do, they still manage to have their own unique sound. Very professional and passionate! Proud of our Dutch Sonia too
Am I the only one who liked how the Intro "Awakening" kicked off the album? Short and sweet and just a simple crypt vibe with a coffin opening and it was a great lead into Starvation. A great idea that seemed to fit in with the theme and represent sort of the "birth" of the band. Cool idea. I liked it.
I love them as well. I do agree that in some cases, they can be unnecessary and just serve a purpose of 'we didn't have a track we felt was good enough to kick-start the record, so we just tacked on an intro track'. But for the most part, and from a lot of the albums I've heard (including this album), they really work 🔥
It’s all down to a case by case basis, and people generalize about it too much imo. Blayne likes intros when he likes a specific intro, and doesn’t like them when he dislikes a specific intro, like the overwhelming majority of people. Maybe there’s a minority of people who can honestly say that they don’t like intros at all, not ever, but I’d gladly bet that they are an extreme minority of people.
Blayne! pat yourself on the back, you've accomplished a lot in your mid 30s! I feel Crypta is more my jam than the Nervosa record and Snet is some banging death metal!
Like how you pointed out all of their individual skills and accomplishments and their collective age with which one can agree undoubtedly that it’s quality work by all the criterion you listed Mr Blayne. I just didn’t get into it first time around. I actually watched all those doc first and was excited. Perhaps too much now in hindsight 🤔 Anywho the last bit o irony is you getting into Grave Miasma. Three years ago DEAFHEAVEN went record shopping at Amoeba and Kerry mentioned Chris Bruni from Profound Lore records apparently recommending them 😄 Keep the good work metal jokester of all things heavy....✊🏿🤎🖤🤘🏾
The songs were composed over zoom meetings and online messages so it is really impressive for that. But I am sure the next record with a more "normal" composing process will be much better. I like the album, not saying I don't, just saying the chances of getting even better are great.
Great production as I said early, I listen this afternoon and have a great work of the drummer Luna, and two great guitartist Sonia and Tania and offcourse Fernanda, great bass, her own style y and veey cool and agresive album but great solos and great producrion \m/
I was eagerly anticipating this album, and I was not at all disappointed! These ladies are brutally awesome & I seriously hope they someday tour the U.S.! 🤘
This would have been refreshing to have Riley or Sarah review this record. This album is definitely better than 3.5. Would love to hear their perspective.
I didn't even get that far into his review after he was so focused on their age and talkin about the song starvation. This album is solid and he doesnt know wtf he's talking about. If he thinks it's so meh then let's see you do better then. Thought so.
Brazuca se apresentando. Mas se dermos nossa opinião em português os gringos não entendem. Por isso coloquei em inglês. Com relação a banda achei o álbum excelente! Já vi muita banda antiga de death metal na Europa que não chega nem aos pés do Crypta.
I agree with you entirely. However, he is right that the middle of the record loses steam. I think the songs are in the WAY wrong order. That opening sound is stupid and a badly edited waste of time.
According to Google, Lowen is a group (on Spotify, the solo artist is the same singer as in the band) known to do music from RnB/soul, EDM, hip hop, and metal. I mean, they pretty much got the entire Western music genre in their hands aside from jazz, pop, and punk as far as popular genres go.
I love Crypta's music (Nervosa is solid too)! Personally, I think their music works better live than in the context of the album. I feel like some extra work on the mix, especially in the vocals, would have made this a much stronger release.
I’m still digging the F out of this record all this time later. As a 47 year old old school fan of death metal…Starvation is a top 10 death metal song of ALL TIME.
There are few new bands I want to see perform live like Crypta. Yes, they are talented, yes they are hot, and yes their first record is good. Not too many new bands meet that criteria.
Judging from the clips this will probably be a bit too polished for my tastes. I liked Sonia's playing on those Burning Witches records though, so I'll check it out. Also, you should probably send that Hulder banner to me. Just for the heck of it. :)
Grampa here, I can't think of a rock band throughout history that didn't get big or start in their late teens/early twenties. Maybe the guys from Red Fang...
Every single player in this band is incredibly skilled, but the drummer Luana is the one who’s performance blows me away the most. Also, if there’s gonna be any comparisons between Crypta and Nervosa, Crypta won this year
"You can't rent a car yet, but you can write, like, twenty solos? OK, Asshole, slowdown & leave some for the rest of us." - Two years later and this still kills me. 🤣🤣🤣
Im not a huge fan of all female or female led metal bands. Its just never been my thing, but these ladies killed it. I wouldnt say that this is a death metal album and its definitely not thrash by any means. Her vox is very black metal inspired highs not thrashy. I often wonder if the guys that do some of these reviews actually listen to other sub genres of metal, in one review the fool calles Pantera Floods a Nu Metal track wtf. Anyways this record is a hybrid of sorts and imo they do an awesome job at pulling all of these different styles of metal together in one conglomeration. You can definitely hear the influences of bands like Death, Nile, throw in a bit Dissection, and dare I say At The Gates even. I can hear the influences, its mainly the blending of styles of Melodic Death Metal, Black Metal, Doom, Death Metal etc. Its a very listenable album and Im impressed with it. The fact that they are all 4 beautiful women is just an afterthought really, I mean it definitely helps. But in all seriousness the music speaks for itself here. Not even a bad song on this record which speaks volumes. Theres always atleast one song that is just meh. Its a fast paced intense and wonderful listen. I for one, will definitely check them out live whenever they tour. Nervosa never stood out, now this definitely does. Crypta is way better than Nervosa by far. Of course music is subjective, ppl like what they like. Which is why I thoroughly enjoyed this album because it blends all of the styles that I love in metal. Thrash to me is amateur metal as in its what everyone got into first for the most part. Then you mature and discover more extreme metal. Ive always love the brutality of Death Metal especially when its Blackened. Grindcore and Slam are intense. But to me Ive always enjoyed Melodic Death Metal and Tech Death. Then bands that mesh the two. This band isnt technical but they do have some good melodies that are backed with some good grooves. The intensity they have to offer is more Black Metal influenced definitely. Theres no boring breakdowns and the tracks go on at a perfect pace to keep the listener interested. I think they did a great job considering the constraints they had in creating it. It could of been a little more polished here or there. But overall they did a great job. I can definitely say this from a musical standpoint. They arent just a mediocre metal ensemble that only gets notoriety because of metalheads simping over beautiful metal chicks playing metal. No, there music actually kicks ass. I wouldnt even be able to tell if they were women and their gender doesnt even matter. So for once I can actually say I enjoyed an all female metal band that isnt over rated. Hopefully they dont get over rated, the label they are on tends to over market their bands though. Yeah we get it they are beautiful, let their talent rip our faces off. Then I can admire their beauty when im floored by a live show. Im sure they will be inundated by tons of men simping over them. Theyve earned their right to be just one of the guys perse.
The guitarist of Nervosa Prika Amaral was the one who created and claimed the name Nervosa, thus Fernanda Lira forming Crypta, so it's not exactly a Sepultura/Soulfly situation where Max Cavalera wanted to keep the name Sepultura and fire the other members, but decided to leave instead. Yeah, I like all four bands involved in this situation.
