None So Vile

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None So Vile
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Studio album by
Released3 July 1996 (1996-07-03)
RecordedDecember 1995 – January 1996
StudioStudio Victor, Montreal
Genre
Length32:03
Label Wrong Again
Producer
  • Pierre Rémillard
  • Cryptopsy
Cryptopsy chronology
Blasphemy Made Flesh
(1994)
None So Vile
(1996)
Whisper Supremacy
(1998)

None So Vile is the second studio album by Canadian death metal band Cryptopsy, released on 3 July 1996 by Wrong Again Records. The album was later reissued by Displeased Records and Century Media Records. It was re-released on vinyl in 2012 by War on Music.

Contents

None So Vile is the first album to feature bassist Eric Langlois, and the last to feature vocalist Lord Worm, until his return on 2005's Once Was Not . The art featured on the cover of the album is a painting by Italian Baroque painter Elisabetta Sirani titled Herodias with the Head of John the Baptist, reversed. [2]

None So Vile is critically acclaimed as one of the most influential death metal albums of the 1990s, influencing many later acts and musicians in both technical death and brutal death metal subgenres. [3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [4]
Stylus Magazine A [5]


Accolades

PublicationCountryAccoladeYearRank
Decibel [6] USThe Top 100 Death Metal Albums of All Time201210
Loudwire [7] US10 Best Metal Albums of 199620164

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Lord Worm

No.TitleLength
1."Crown of Horns"3:57
2."Slit Your Guts"4:02
3."Graves of the Fathers"4:11
4."Dead and Dripping"3:53
5."Benedictine Convulsions"4:00
6."Phobophile"4:38
7."Lichmistress"2:31
8."Orgiastic Disembowelment"4:51
Total length:32:03


Personnel

Writing, performance and production credits are adapted from the album liner notes. [8]

Cryptopsy

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