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CRIPTAS
Criptas

Dogma Destroyer / Tormentas (2023)
Rating: 7/10

It’s good to see the Mexican underground scene still bubbling away and the latest combo to be vomited forth is Criptas, who have been in existence since 2018. This is the band’s debut full-length studio offering and what you get here are 11 tracks which combine thrash, hardcore, death metal and crust.

The album boasts some fantastic grooves (check out the riffs on ‘Peste’) plus an abundance of aggression (‘Verdugos’) and mid-tempo menace (‘Antorchas’). The riffs come equipped with a dirty snarl and the vocals are abrasive barks; nothing new, but infectious and raucous all the same.

Some of the riffs employ that classic Entombed buzzsaw growl, but a song like ‘Muertos’ is more about thrashing death, cutting to the bone with its blasts. I hear a song such as ‘Invento Fallido’ and I hear a sound not too far removed from, say, Asphyx but with a more streetwise, punky edge. The same could also be said for the savage ‘Sucio Destino’ with its dehydrated gasps.

There is nothing cryptic about Criptas but the band certainly knows how to strip flesh with their rabid metal, and for that they deserve a solid rating as well as your attention.

Neil Arnold

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