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CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER

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General Info

  • Genre: Metal / Thrash

    Location Santa Monica, California, US

    Profile Views: 296243

    Last Login: 6/2/2011

    Member Since 1/13/2006

    Website THIS IS IT - Spread the word. Tell your friends!

    Record Label Relapse Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    The original Speedcore merchants, Cryptic Slaughter dealt a West Coast hand into the late 80's Crossover movement, a movement that saw the normally warring armies of punk rock and thrash metal finally come together into a unified front bent on exposing social injustice and political hypocrisy. Powered by a previously unimagined sense of informed aggression, the band's uncompromising political stance and lightning-fast tempos ultimately proved too harsh for mainstream tastes, but their status as underground legends remains unquestioned. .. .. Vocalist/bassist Bill Crooks, guitarists Les Evans and Adam Scott, and drummer Scott Peterson first met while playing on their High School soccer team, and formed Cryptic Slaughter in 1984. Adam Scott was soon on the outs, but the remaining trio still managed to cut their five-song Life in Grave" demo by May of the following year. Its sheer speed and unbridled ferocity quickly made it a favorite conversation piece on the all-important underground tape-trading network -- a worldwide phenomenon that had already launched dozens of successful acts before them -- and eventually landed Cryptic Slaughter a contract with fast-rising independent Metal Blade Records. .. .. Issued in 1986, the band's debut album Convicted introduced new bassist Rob Nicholson (freeing Crooks to focus on his rabid vocal delivery) and somehow crammed fourteen tracks into a violently giddy, adrenalin-charged half hour, every single cut spewing a torrent of anti-establishment bile and fury. Follow-up efforts like 1987's Money Talks and 1988's Stream Of Consciousness added only the smallest of sonic refinements, and kept the group's ever-expanding legion of fans happy by staying true to their original, raw and frenetic style. .. .. Cryptic Slaughter TRIVIA: .. .. * Napalm Death covers "Lowlife" on their 2004 album, Leaders Not Followers: Part 2. .. .. * Bass-player Rob Nicholson, aka Blasko, used to play with Rob Zombie, Danzig, Prong and now plays bass for Ozzy Osbourne. .. .. * Powerviolence band Spazz covers "M.A.D" on their 1997 album "La Revancha" .. .. * The song "Lowlife" is featured in the video game Tony Hawk's Project 8. .. .. * A "Convicted" album is seen being handled by Johnny Depp in the 21 Jump Street pilot. .. .. * Cryptic Slaughter is featured in the book Sound of the Beast, the Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal. .. .. * "Money Talks" is the featured album in Decibel magazines Hall of Fame feature. April 2007. .. .. * "Money Talks" is featured in the SPIN Magazine column "Essentials". July 2007. .. .. * Cryptic Slaughter gets a "shout out" from some punker in the film Decline of the Western Civilization: Part 2. .. .. ~ Cryptic Slaughter "Money Talks" 1988/Balboa Theater, L.A., CA ~ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Live from the Axiom in Houston, July 6, 1988. Excerpt from Cryptic Slaughter's final tour. Lowlife originally released in 1986 on Cryptic Slaughter's first album, Convicted. Available by reissue on Relapse Records. Relapse Records Copyright 2003. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use is forbidden .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .......... .......... .......... .. .. .. ...... .... ..

  • Members

    Bill Crooks - Vocals .. Les Evans - Guitars .. Rob Nicholson - Bass .. Scott Peterson - Drums ..

  • Influences

    "It was CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER along with bands like D.R.I., ACCUSED, AGNOSTIC FRONT, C.O.C., THE CRUMBSUCKERS, SLAYER, HELLBASTARD, NAPALM DEATH etc. that in the mid-80s turned a world of metalheads onto hardcore and a planet of punks onto metal." .. ~inmusicwetrust.com

  • Sounds Like

    "Along with D.R.I., C.O.C. and the contributions of punkers like Discharge and The Exploited, Cryptic Slaughter built up the genre of "thrash" music from haphazard crossover to a science of more terrifying, instantaneous music." .. ~anus.com .. .. .. .. .. ...... ........ .. .. .......... ........ .. .. ........ ........ .. .. ........CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER .. .."CONVICTED".......... ........ .. .. .. ...... ........ .. .. .............. ........ .......... ........ .. .. .. ...... ........ .. .. ........ ........ .. .. .......... ........ .. .. ........ ........ .. .. ........CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER .. .."MONEY TALKS".......... ........ .. .. .. ...... ........ .. .. .............. .. .. .......... ........ .. .. ........ ........ .. ..

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