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Undercover Scumbag (2018)
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A Stare Bound in Stone (2018)
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Of Stone, Wind, & Pillor (Remastered) (2021)
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Salt Lake City's Crypted Roots combine death metal's sonic aggression with thrash metal's punishing velocity, crafting music that moves fast and hits hard. Their Utah roots inform an isolation and intensity in their recordings.
Worcester, Massachusetts' Crypter weld black metal's icy atmosphere to thrash metal's relentless propulsion, producing ferocious, riff-driven songs with a distinctly Northeast edge. Their material moves with urgency and controlled menace.
Jacksonville, Florida's Crypteria bring a progressive sensibility to death metal, expanding the genre's structural possibilities without sacrificing the underlying brutality. Their compositions are technical without being sterile, built around genuine dynamic contrast.
Fort Wayne, Indiana's Cryptic blend black and death metal into a dense, extreme sound with roots in the American underground. Their approach draws from both genres' most severe tendencies.
Mingo Junction, Ohio's Cryptic Abuse smash together brutal death metal and grindcore into relentlessly punishing music from the heart of the rust belt underground. Their recordings are deliberately unclean, prioritizing crushing impact over studio gloss.
Englishtown, New Jersey's Cryptic Affection deliver death metal with a straightforward aggression rooted in the dense, Northeast underground tradition. Their material is unpretentious and built to do one thing: pummel.
Folk and power metal band from York, England, active since 2012. They blend folk instrumentation with power metal hooks from the historic Yorkshire city.
Thrash metal band from Sarreguemines on the German border, France, active since 1992. With over three decades of history, Cryptic Art are veterans of the French thrash scene.
Death-doom metal band from Wolfsburg, Germany, active since 2013. They craft putrid, filthy death-doom that crawls through murky sonic depths.
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