“I thought it was a funny reaction,” says Mounier on the swell of negative reaction, which seemed to blossom almost overnight into much more than it ever should have. “Especially now, it’s even funnier that some of those original naysayers are now getting used to the new songs and coming back and saying they think they are great. There is a whole mixed bag of comments and the people that are most persistent on the internet are usually the ones that don’t even buy the albums or go to shows — they just stay on the internet and bitch.”
The evolution of the band that is prevalent on the new upcoming album has been in the making for some time. It was also something that didn’t seem to have their former vocalist in mind.
“It was pretty simple,” says Mounier about the departure of Lord Worm from the band. “He and I had a talk and we both came to the conclusion that it was time that Cryptopsy found a new singer. It was for different reasons, both for him personally and for the band as well.”
“As far as evolving and experimenting, we need someone who is a little more on the money with the structures and phrases. As far as he is concerned, Lord Worm is 42 years old now and the touring lifestyle takes a toll. It was a mutual decision and it was not an unfriendly one. We just decided it was time to do something different.”
“We really set out to make an album that was more extreme, with dynamic changes and dynamic verses in the songs,” says Mounier of the upcoming new album. “Basically, what it comes down to is just taking music and taking doable extremes and matching them up in a way where it becomes a song and not just riff after riff after riff.”
“I think the challenge was to create something that is completely ridiculously fast and brutal and then bring it down to something that is incredibly catchy and then bring it back up. To make the record breathe and give it this huge diversity to challenge people and make it interesting and even more fun to play.”
