Krypts- Unending Degradation

About 6 months ago, my friend Nick told me that I should check out this band Krypts from Finland.  The last band that he told me about, Icon of Evil, was right up my alley so I checked out a few songs.  They ruled.  Nick was spot-on.  I tried for a while to chase down the Unending Degradation 12" to no avail.  Finally I gave up and bought the CD.  I think I got the CD in an order with some other cool(er?) stuff like the Timeghoul discography, and the Krypts CD finally got a listen.  I didn't get very far into the album and turned it off for whatever reason.  It didn't seem to suit my fancy any longer, and I couldn't figure out what it was that I had originally liked about it.

Months passed.  Then recently, Nick mentioned still wanting to get the album and I hastily told him not to bother.  I quickly retracted that statement and told him I'd spin it again and check it out more critically.  BOY AM I GLAD I DID.  I realized what it was about this stuff that gripped me initially, and what my problem was when I first received the CD.  I tend to still buy music somewhat impulsively despite being able to listen to full releases for free on the internet almost all of the time.  It's because that's how I've always done it, and there have been plenty of times where I'd listen to a whole album and then decide not to buy it.  That led to me not buying new music and getting stuck listening to the same old stuff all the time.  So, I decided to throw caution to the wind.  Sometimes, I still get stinkers, and sometimes I get sleepers- like this Krypts disc.  OK, so the intro and the first full track weren't doing it for me, basically at all.  It didn't have the tempo and the feel that I remembered from the tracks I previewed.  I left the CD on while I was washing dishes so I could get an uninterrupted listen and was likely not to change it if I got bored.  When the third track "Open the Crypt" came around, I started to remember what it was that I liked about this band.  Then the fourth track "Dormancy of the Ancients" kicked in, and it had all the stuff I like- plenty of chugging, gross bubbling vocals, and some murky leads that sounded like they were wafting from a submerged cave. 

The rest of the album continues in a similar fashion.  I've been listening to this pretty regularly for the last week or so after rediscovering it.  It seems silly that I couldn't get through those first two tracks and basically discarded this album for so many months.  So, cheers Nick!


All of this album is streaming on their bandcamp page if I remember correctly, and it's all on youtube, too.  For some reason I can't link to Dormancy of the Ancients like I wanted to, so go look it up yourself.