Track Listing

1. Luminum
2. In the Kingdom Where Everything Dies, The Sky Is Mortal
3. Carrionshine
4. Adeste Infidelis
5. Curse of the Great
6. Frantic Pace of Dying
7. Keeping the Cadaver Dogs Busy
8. Angelskingarden
9. Pestilence That Walketh in Darkness (Psalm 91: 5-8)
10. End
11. Endless Cemetary

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110516 in Music
• Released on: 2005-10-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Customer Reviews

Cryptopsy: The Kings of Technical Death Metal.
How much more of a perfect release could Cryptopsy have wanted? This CD is amazing. The first time you listen to it you are just completely stunned, taking a few minutes to try and comprehend the technical perfection you have just experienced. I'm a Lord Worm fan, so having him back on vocals was good enough. Flo, the man with 80 arms and legs, takes his drumming to so much of an insane level that it's hard to even put it into words. Take what he did on None So Vile, multiply that times 10 and maybe you have it. There's no need to go into each song: they are equally 10 out of 10 masterpieces. Sound quality on this recording is sick! It's one of those CD's that's so loud and clear while still having that raw edge that makes all Death Metal the most extreme music in the universe. Once Was Not WILL go down as THE technical Death Metal release that all others will be compared to. Only one (in my opinion) that comes close is None So Vile. Don't even think about getting this one, just do it. All Hail Cryptopsy!!!
Necrosoul.

top-notch return to form.
Cryptopsy's latest album is the most hatefully fresh sounding DM album i've heard in awhile. It's brutal in the expected fashion, with Mournier's hyper-drumming as impressive as ever, if not more so and with the return of Lord Worm's frantic & demonic histrionics (x5) is intertwined with the band's usual writing & technical aptitudes. It's heavier than a black hole and it is full of aggression that screams for the bloodletting of angels and deicide. Yet what is the appeal if this all sounds a little too familiar? Cryptopsy has achieved at least two exciting things here: a tighter synthesis of brutality and technicality, yet with wider swings in either diretion; and some of the tracks on this album are very evocative and atmospheric amidst the extreme BRUTALness, far more so than anything on previous albums. Songs like "Carrionstine", "The Curse of the Great", and "Keeping the Cadaver Dogs at Bay" are bound to become classics of the band's repertoire. Extra credit: the last song "Endless Cemetary" might be the best they've done! Highly recommended... especially the limited edition digipak which is a far more suitable aesthetic complement to the quality of the album.

Death metal done right!
I am an extremely happy death head these days. Suffocation reformed last year, Nile's new one kills, Behemoth is steadily getting better and better, Hate Eternal's new album is a hell of alot better than I expected and now we have the new Cryptopsy with the return of Lord Worm. Well being a huge fan of Lord Worm's work on None so Vile I was extactic to hear he was coming back and let me say that his hiatus from death metal has definately taken it's toll on his vocals. Don't get me wrong he is not horrid by all means, I think he really performs well on this album, however it is a very different Lord Worm. More high pitch screams and mid range growls take center stage here and really do compliment the music well, I guess I just had some idea of what to expect in my mind and was somewhat disappointed when I heard the final product. After a few listens that goes away! The music on this one is absolutely fantastic as with any other Cryptopsy CD, crisp guitar playing, Eric is one hell of a bass player and Flo... Man I must admit at first I was thrown off by the production but how can you dislike the production of any album that pushes the most impressive musician to the forefront? The drums on this one are thunderous, even the strongest stereo equipment will shudder, and Flo destroys his kit on this one as usual. There is one part in particular where the music comes to a halt and Flo goes off with quick double bass kicks then systematically slows them down to a crawl with such precision it made my jaw drop. He proves every time out why he is considered one of if not the best drummer in metal today. Overall this is as strong an album as Cryptopsy has ever released, I can't say I like it better than NSV or Whisper Supremacy but I can say that it blows And Then You'll Beg out of the water. 2005 has been a great year for metal, death metal in particular and Once Was Not is definately the best death metal album to be released this year.