Canadian extreme-metal legends CRYPTOPSY have revealed their depraved, merciless new single, ‘Flayed the Swine,’ today! Found on the band’s first full-length album in over a decade, As Gomorrah Burns, that’s out September 8th from Nuclear Blast Records, the influential death-dealers’ latest single, ‘Flayed the Swine,’ is an accessible yet face-melting track that takes listeners down a dark and demented path to madness. In true CRYPTOPSY fashion, the track is accompanied by a horrific, blood-soaked video that will only fuel viewers’ nightmares.
Commenting on the new single, vocalist Matt McGachy says: “‘Flayed the Swine’ is one of the catchiest Cryptopsy songs I have ever written. It is brutal, filled with massive groove sections and extremely vulgar. Lyrically, it concentrates on a mental breakdown, an utter loss of control. We all have dark intentions, but we rarely act upon them. The protagonist by the end of the track most certainly wishes they hadn’t.”
Pre-order As Gomorrah Burns and stream ‘Flayed the Swine’: https://cryptopsy.bfan.link/flayed-the-swine.ema
As Gomorrah Burns isn’t merely the follow-up to EPs The Book of Suffering – Tome I (2015) and The Book of Suffering – Tome II (2018). It’s another beast entirely. Crafted over two years during the pandemic, the initial sessions took place in a cabin in the forests of Quebec. McGachy calls the horror-like backdrop “surreal,” but, as with everything CRYPTOPSY, the songwriting process was expectedly arduous. Donaldson was the primary motivator behind As Gomorrah Burns. The guitarist and producer served as taskmaster and advocate, grinding out of his bandmates in McGachy, Mounier, and Pinard eight slabs of unadulterated barbarity. If CRYPTOPSY were formidable before As Gomorrah Burns, they’re absolutely monstrous now.
