CRYPTODIRA ANNOUNCE A STORM CALLED PROGRESS LIVESTREAM HAPPENING MAY 11th & 12th

PERFORMING THEIR NEW ALBUM THE ANGEL OF HISTORY IN FULL

The New York-based progressive death metal group, Cryptodira, have announced their upcoming 2-day livestream event titled A Storm Called Progress, an in-studio, full performance of their newest album The Angel Of History. Captured at Graphic Nature Audio, the session was engineered by Matt Guglielmo, and mixed and mastered by Jamie King. Happening on May 11th and 12th at 7pm ET, the stream will be available to watch for free on the band's Twitch channel (twitch.tv/CryptodiraBand) while the band will be present to virtually chat with fans. Following the full album performance, fans can expect play-throughs, lyric analysis, and the individual song performances to be released every month.

Speaking on the event, vocalist/guitarist Scott Acquavella says:

"As a band that's always done things the old fashioned way of writing, recording, and touring, pandemic life has been a particularly weird adjustment for us. Having put out a record in the middle of it, we were hellbent on finding a way to bring people closer to The Angel of History than anything else we've done before, and the answer to that was A Storm Called Progress.

A Storm Called Progress is centered around a live, in-studio performance of The Angel of History recorded at Graphic Nature Audio and mixed/mastered by Jamie King that will be premiered as a two day live stream event on our Twitch Channel. From there, the following months will see a series of video releases, with each month being dedicated to a different song on the record. For each song there will be an instrumental play-through video, a deep dive lyrical analysis video, and a video cut of that individual song from the live performance to explore The Angel of History in a completely different context.

We weren't content to just put out any old video performance in a sea of COVID-inspired live streams and it was important to us to release a body of work that would be engaging for listeners and creatively challenging for us, pandemic or not."

Their sophomore full-length The Angel Of History, out now via Good Fight Music, marks their most dynamic and intricate efforts yet. Put best by BrooklynVegan, the band achieve a balance of, “mind-meltingly complex as it is headbangingly abrasive as it is genuinely tuneful.” Co-produced by Jamie King (Between the Buried and Me, The Contortionist, Vatican) and Cryptodira, The Angel Of History is available to buy and stream here.

CRYPTODIRA RELEASE SOPHOMORE ALBUM THE ANGEL OF HISTORY

"A Tendency to Fall" from the new LP 'The Angel of History' - available everywhere on 12/4/2020 via Good Fight Music. Stream, Download, and buy exclusive mer...

OUT NOW VIA GOOD FIGHT MUSIC

LISTEN: The Angel Of History

December 4, 2020 - The New York-based progressive death metal group, Cryptodira, released their sophomore full-length The Angel Of History, via Good Fight Music. Cryptodira’s intricate new effort finds the band pushing their boundaries even further without losing any of the focus on the songwriting that they’ve established themselves with, creating one of the most dynamic and exciting heavy releases of the year. To celebrate, the band is hosting a release day livestream at 7pm EST that includes a Society(1989) watch party, energy drink testing, and a discussion of the album at: twitch.tv/CryptodiraBand

Speaking on the release Scott Acquavella (guitar / vocals) says, "In the midst of such a uniquely stressful time, we're especially grateful for the opportunity to put The Angel of History in your hands. It was crafted through chaos, personal loss, and growth, and that heavy spectrum of emotions is well represented throughout the album. We were driven by excitement and curiosity while writing it and we've never explored such a wide variety of sonic territory before, so we truly hope these songs resonate with you the way they do with us."

Right off the heels of their new EP Better Left Unsaid, the band is preparing their sophomore album, The Angel Of History, which acts as the follow up to their critically acclaimed 2017 debut, The Devil's Despair. Everything Is Noise stated about the new LP that, “The Angel of History continues to be interesting regardless of how many times you’ve listened”. Produced by Jamie King (Between the Buried and Me, The Contortionist, Vatican) and Cryptodira, The Angel Of History is available for buy and stream here.

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CRYPTODIRA SHARES NEW SINGLE, “WHAT CAN’T BE TAKEN BACK”

"What Can't Be Taken Back" from the new LP 'The Angel of History' - available everywhere on 12/4/2020 via Good Fight Music. Stream, Download, and buy exclusi...

SOPHOMORE ALBUM THE ANGEL OF HISTORY
OUT DECEMBER 4, 2020 VIA GOOD FIGHT MUSIC

The New York-based progressive death metal group, Cryptodira, shared their newest single titled "What Can’t Be Taken Back" from their forthcoming LP The Angel Of History, due out on December 4, 2020, via Good Fight Music. “What Can’t Be Taken Back”, the second single that follows up “A Tendency to Fall,” punches in with a hard-as-nails sonic assault, mid-tempo progressive riffing, and dueling vocals before giving way to the walls of melody that make up the second half of the track.

Speaking on the lyrical content of the single, drummer Matthew Taibi says:

"The most valuable resource anyone has at their disposal is time. What makes it so valuable is the fact that it can’t be reversed—time cannot be taken back. Barring the larger philosophical implications of time’s unreserved movement, suffice it to say that an hour of time should be worth far more than $15."

Guitarist and vocalist Scott Acquavella adds:

"Despite most of our songs having an ever changing series of moods, there is something about "What Can't Be Taken Back" that we feel represents our sonic and emotional spectrum particularly well. It is as furious as it is delicate and there is a common emotive thread running through each section that well-expresses the urgent and weighty nature of the lyrical content."

Right off the heels of their new EP Better Left Unsaid, the band is preparing their sophomore album, The Angel Of History, that acts as the follow up to their critically acclaimed 2017 debut, The Devil's Despair. Heavy Blog is Heavy stated that the LP is the band's "contribution to the ongoing answer for the progressive metal conundrum. It shows that there's still reason and life in the genre, that in its sometimes over the top and too self-serious highs and lows, there are still interesting ideas and powerful emotions to be manifested." Produced by Jamie King (Between the Buried and Me, The Contortionist, Vatican) and Cryptodira, The Angel Of History is available for pre-order here and the new single “What Can’t Be Taken Back” is available to stream here.

CRYPTODIRA RELEASES NEW SONG, MUSIC VIDEO FOR "A TENDENCY TO FALL."

"A Tendency to Fall" from the new LP 'The Angel of History' - available everywhere on 12/4/2020 via Good Fight Music. Stream, Download, and buy exclusive mer...

ALL-NEW LP, THE ANGEL OF HISTORY, DUE
OUT DECEMBER 4, 2020 VIA GOOD FIGHT MUSIC

October 16, 2020 -- Cryptodira has released a new track and music video today titled "A Tendency to Fall" along with further details on their all-new LP The Angel Of History, due out on December 4, 2020, via Good Fight Music. Pre-orders are available now, and can be seen here. Directed by Anthony Altamura, this is the first music video we're seeing from the band from their new full length.

The new full-length news arrives only a few weeks after the band announced their EP Better Left Unsaid. The Angel Of History is the followup to The Devil's Despair released in 2017, which received critical acclaim. Heavy Blog is Heavy stated that the LP is the band's "contribution to the ongoing answer for the progressive metal conundrum. It shows that there's still reason and life in the genre, that in its sometimes over the top and too self-serious highs and lows, there are still interesting ideas and powerful emotions to be manifested."

The Angel Of History was recorded in January 2020 at The Basement Studios in Winston-Salem, NC, and produced by Jamie King and Cryptodira. The band weighs in below.

"Conceptually, this album comes from a place of suspicion towards several trends within postmodern (and contemporary) philosophy. Philosophy has developed an allergy to its driving force--i.e., collective action marching under the banners of liberation and ameliorating oppressed and exploited people. While 'The Angel of History' is not explicitly a work of philosophy, it is still intended to criticize these trends, especially their collaboration with individualism. As an ideology today, identity (whether rugged or nihilistic) has us steeped in depression, substance abuse, and suicide. A call for more historical and class-conscious forms of social being is made against the ideology of individualism. On the other hand, there are trends within postmodern thought that have labored to deconstruct this ideology (particularly queer, feminist, and post-colonial theories). So they are given space to update Walter Benjamin's image of the angel of history into the 21st century." - Matthew Taibi, on the concepts behind The Angel of History

"A climate catastrophe is not a distant reality. We are currently living through it, and we cannot rely on 'business as usual' to deliver us from this reality. Of course, there is a personal responsibility for each of us living in central economies: waste less, recycle more whenever possible, etc. However, this overly individualistic focus loses sight that only 100 corporations contribute 71% of global emissions. And the individuals who have the most to lose from this crisis tend to come from the most vulnerable, most oppressed, and most exploited among us. Rosa Luxemburg's adage 'socialism or barbarism' no longer captures the entire severity of the path before us--today, it is socialism or hellfire." -Matthew Taibi, on the concept/video behind the song "A Tendency to Fall."

"Our writing process gets a bit more refined with every song we write. I tend to write more traditionally with a guitar, notepad & recorder. At the same time, Matthew utilizes computer programs more, but they both seem to come together in similar ways, with the whole band working out fine details literally up to the minute that it is recorded. We are continually changing and tweaking."

"I can be inspired by art that I love and the art that I hate. Some of the songs I wrote for this record were a mixture of both. Outside of those inspirations, I was also riding the emotions that came with the two-year health battle that my dad, who was my best friend and single most significant influence, had leading up to his departure from this life last April. Lyrically this record doesn't reflect that, but sonically you can hear my sadness, anger, hope, and a lot more. It's safe to say I'll always carry that with me, and it'll affect the way I write forever." - Mike Monaco, on the writing process and journey of creating The Angel of History

"While we were writing 'The Angel of History,' Jamie King's name came up on a shortlist of people that we trusted to capture the essence of the music and give us the space we needed to make the best record we could. We all agreed that he was the perfect person to work with and would understand our band better than anybody else with almost no discussion. He has produced some of our favorite records of all time, so it was a dream come true to create in the same space that those timeless records were made in." - Scott Acquavella, on working with producer Jamie King

CRYPTODIRA RELEASES SURPRISE EP, BETTER LEFT UNSAID

"Better Left Unsaid" from the new EP "Better Left Unsaid" out NOW on Good Fight Music. Stream, Download, or buy exclusive merch here: https://orcd.co/betterl...

ALL-NEW LP, THE ANGEL OF HISTORY, DUE
OUT LATER THIS YEAR

September 11, 2020 -- Cryptodira have released a surprise EP today titled Better Left Unsaid with a visualizer for the title track. These songs are the first music the band is releasing since The Devil's Despair (2017), which received critical acclaim. Heavy Blog is Heavy stated that the LP is the band's "contribution to the ongoing answer for the progressive metal conundrum. It shows that there's still reason and life in the genre, that in its sometimes over the top and too self-serious highs and lows, there are still interesting ideas and powerful emotions to be manifested."

The band will also release an all-new LP titled The Angel of History later this year. The Angel of History and Better Left Unsaid were both recorded in January 2020 at The Basement Studios in Winston-Salem, NC, and produced by Jamie King and Cryptodira.

Vocalist/guitarist Scott Acquavella and drummer Matthew Taibi comment:

"There's been no shortage of inspiration throughout our recent writing process, and upon stepping back and looking at the body of work we had amassed, there was a sense that these two songs fit together in an extraordinary way that makes them stand out on their own. We've always been a band that writes with a much larger picture in mind, but there was something uniquely rewarding about telling a sonically short story. So the Better Left Unsaid EP is our way of exploring that territory." - Scott Acquavella

"As it was written in the Grundrisse, "language is the presence of community," and a genuinely livable community begins where individualism ends. Language is not only a bridge between members of a community; language embeds communal being into the most private corners of mental life. An individual (or ego) can only know their hopes and desires by using language, i.e., something their community gifted them. Living in a community and using language properly both mean knowing where and when to decenter yourself. Sustainable happiness will be found sooner on the margins." - Matthew Taibi