CRYPTORIUM — Malignant Crucifixion (review)

CRYPTORIUM — Malignant Crucifixion album cover EP · 2025 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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"Malignant Crucifixion" is an EP release by Swedish death metal act Cryptorium. The EP was independently released in February 2025. It follows the release of Cryptorium´s November 2024 debut full-length studio album "Descent into Lunacy". The EP consists of four tracks and features a 14:06 minutes long playing time.

"Schizophrenic" and "Black Despondency" were both recorded during the sessions for "Descent into Lunacy" but left off the debut album. "Schizophrenic" is an old demo track, which in it´s original version was included on the July 2023 "Cryptic Bloodlust" demo, but this version sounds vastly different to the version found on the demo. Stylistically the material on "Malignant Crucifixion" is in one of the more filthy and raw versions of old school Swedish death metal out there and that goes for both the studio tracks and the two live tracks which bookend the EP. Extremely raw, murky, and intense old school death metal.

The quality of the songwriting is decent, the sound production raw and organic, and the musicianship solid, but "Malignant Crucifixion" is not a release which adds much to what was presented on "Descent into Lunacy". A 2.5 - 3 star (55%) rating is warranted.
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