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Cryptopsy's Self-Titled Album Out Now - Full Stream Available!
Tuesday, 20 November 2012 12:16

The self-titled release from Montreal extreme metal veterans Flo Mounier & Cryptopsy is now available throughout North America via Cryptopsy/Defen Society in association with Revolution Harmony/Candlelight Records. 
 
To celebrate the widespread release of the album that marks a furious return to the band's tech-minded roots, Blabbermouth.net has is now streaming Cryptopsy in its entirety here.   
 
Cryptopsy will play a handful of Canadian shows in support of the album. Dates are as follows:
 
November 22nd - Mavericks, Ottawa, Ontario
November 23rd - Club Soda, Montreal, Quebec
November 24th - Club Absinthe, Hamilton, Ontario
November 25th - *ALL AGES SHOW*, The Red Dog, Peterborough, Ontario
December 07th - The RockPile, Toronto, Ontario
December 08th - Bar le Magog, Sherbrooke, Quebec
December 14th - L'Union Commerciale, Quebec city, Quebec
December 15th - Rock Cafe Le Stage, Trois-Rivière, Quebec
 
For more, visit www.Cryptopsy.ca. 
 
Cryptopsy is an extreme metal band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  During the past twenty years, Cryptopsy have wreaked havoc throughout the metal genre by releasing six studio albums (Blasphemy Made Flesh, None So Vile, Whisper Supremacy, And Then You'll Beg, Once Was Not and The Unspoken King), a live album (None So Live) and an EP (Ungentle Exhumation), which have confronted and invigorated the conventional approach to writing extreme music.  Now in 2012, Cryptopsy have returned to their roots in order to craft their newest endeavor entitled Cryptopsy.  The band has said that Cryptopsy will be their most brutal, technical and dynamic offering as of yet.
 
Flo Mounier: Drums/Vocals
Jon Levasseur: Lead & Rhythm guitar
Chris Donaldson: Lead & Rhythm Guitar
Matt McGachy: Lead Vocals
Olivier Pinard: Bass Guitar
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Still Think You're Not Good At Drumming? Meet Kieren Schroeter - What's Your Excuse Now?
Wednesday, 14 November 2012 18:33

Have you ever sat watching drum videos on YouTube for hours, gotten inspired by amazing drumming only to sit down and think "I can never be that good" or come to the conclusion "I guess I just suck"? Now imagine having no hands or feet and somehow managing to play 250 BPM along to a Black Dahlia Murder song, or other similar music!

We give you Kieren Schroeter from Southern Australia. Kieren has no hands or feet and does indeed play along to songs by bands like The Black Dahlia Murder, and very well we might add! He also plays in a progressive deathcore band called Tina Gray. So the next time you're having "one of those days", watch one of the videos on his YouTube channel or hit him up on Facebook and get your motivation back.

Huge respect to Kieren and all the other people out there who continue to inspire through their actions, attitude and dedication to things they love.

 
 
About Kieren:
 
I'm 21 years old and with a organization called Prostek Prosthetics, who basically make limbs and arms for people missing them. They make the feet I wear in my shoes, and they make the arm bands I wear to play drums. The arm bands themselves are just wet suit material with velcro stitched on to them that wrap around my wrist and hold the sticks in place, but they also give me enough leverage to be able to bounce/roll the sticks, so I am able to do ghost notes etc.
 

I had to train myself incredibly hard to use my elbows as wrist, and yes, my arms are pretty huge because of it haha! Playing drums using your entire arm is draining as all hell, so I sat in my garage at home on the kit after school every day from 4pm until 10pm for nearly 3 years, and now my stamina has gotten to the point where I can blast beat for as long as I want. When I play using my elbows it feels like I'm using normal wrist movements. 
 
I started out playing anything from Blink-182 to NOFX, then progressed to metal, then to extreme death metal. Now I've opened myself up to all genres of music and I mix every genre and make it my own. One thing most people don't understand is how much harder I have to work, due to not having wrists. But, I study drum videos and techniques of drummers and I work hard to learn new things.
 
Kieren's Gear:
 
I currently play a Ludwig Epic Black Charcoal Haze with black hardware. It's a 6-piece but I only use it as a 4-piece: 12" x 8" short tom, 16" x 14" floor tom, 22" x 20" bass and a 14" x 5" snare. I also use DW 9000 doubles and a 5000 Hi-Hat stand. My cymbals are: 18" Sabian AAX Studio and Dark Crashes, 14" Zildjian Quick Beat Hats, 20" Zildjian A Custom Ride, 14" Meinl Filtered China with a 10" Meinl Byzance splash for a stack. LP 9" Bell, 6.5" Stagg Bell,  16" Zidljian K Custom China, 10" Meinl Soundcaster Fusion splash and an 8" Zildjian A Custom splash.
 
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Flo Mounier & Cryptopsy Release New Song "Boden"
Monday, 12 November 2012 15:49

Canada's masters of brutality Cryptopsy will release their new devastating 2CD/digital download "best of" collection on November 19th in North America! Programmatically entitled The Best Of Us Bleed, this collection gathers 32 stunning songs in approximately 140 minutes of playing time, including 3 exclusive, newer studio songs, several rare live/demo/cover/bonus tracks as well as selected cuts from the first 6 studio albums by these technical death metal pioneers.

 
The compilation's opening track, "Boden", is one of three unreleased studio tracks only available on this release. Check out the song HERE!
 
Cryptopsy The Best Of Us Bleed 2CD 2012 track-listing:
 
CD 1: "16 Stabwounds" (62:44)
 
1. Boden [2:51]
2. A Graceful Demise [4:25]
3. Holodomor [2:44]
4. Oh My Fucking God [3:28]
5. Worship Your Demons [2:06]
6. Silence The Tyrants [4:09]
7. The Headsmen [5:14]
8. Carrionshine [3:22]
9. The Pestilence That Walketh In Darkness (Psalm 91: 5-8) [3:26]
10. Endless Cemetery [5:17]
11. We Bleed [6:17]
12. Soar and Envision Sore Vision [3:29]
13. Voice Of Unreason [2:54]
14. Cold Hate, Warm Blood [3:53]
15. White Worms [3:41]
16. Emaciate [5:01]
 
CD 2: "Bury The Past Alive" (76:13)
 

1. Phobophile [4:38]
2. Slit Your Guts [4:00]
3. Crown Of Horns [3:57]
4. Defenestration [4:32]
5. Abigor [3:51]
6. Open Face Surgery - Live [4:38]
7. Graves Of The Fathers / Drum Solo - Live [8:09]
8. Shroud - Live [4:28]
9. Born Headless - Live [4:24]
10. Slit Your Guts - Live [5:30]
11. Cold Hate, Warm Blood - Live [4:13]
12. We Bleed - Live [6:02]
13. White Worms - Rehearsal [3:54]
14. Loathe - Rehearsal [5:10]
15. Depths You've Fallen - Rehearsal [4:18]
16. Cold Hate, Warm Blood - Rehearsal [4:07]
 
CD1 Content:
 
Songs 1, 2, 3: New exclusive and previously unreleased songs from 2011
Song 4: STRAPPING YOUNG LAD cover, originally from the Covering 20 Years Of Extremes CM Anniversary compilation release, 2008
Songs 5, 6, 7: Taken from The Unspoken King, 6th album, 2008
Songs 8, 9, 10: Taken from Once Was Not, 5th album, 2005
Songs 11, 12, 13: Taken from And Then You'll Beg, 4th album, 2000
Songs 14, 15, 16: Taken from Whisper Supremacy, 3rd album, 1998
 
CD 2 Content:
 
Songs 1, 2, 3: Taken from None So Vile, 2nd album, 1996
Songs 4, 5: Taken from Blasphemy Made Flesh, 1st album, 1994
Songs 6, 7, 8: Taken from None So Live, live album, 2003
Songs 9, 10: Japanese live bonus tracks for And Then You'll Beg, 1999
Songs 11, 12: Live DVD / Japanese bonus tracks for Once Was Not, 2004
Songs 13, 14, 15, 16: Rehearsal demo tracks for Whisper Supremacy, 1998
 
Cryptopsy live 2012:
 
11/22--Mavericks--Ottawa, ON
11/23--Club Soda--Montreal, Canada
11/24--Club Absinthe--Hamilton, Canada
11/25--The Red Dog--Peterborough, Canada
12/07--The RockPile--Toronto, Canada
12/08--Christmas MetalFest--Sherbrooke, Canada
12/14--L'Union Commerciale--Quebec City, Canada
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