None So Vile is the second album by Cryptopsy

Cryptopsy

Cryptopsy is a Canadian technical death metal band from Montreal, Quebec, formed in 1988. The band has sold over 300,000 records.-Necrosis :...

, released on the now defunct Wrong Again Records. The album was later re-issued by Displeased Records

Displeased Records

Displeased Records is a Dutch independent record label, founded by Lars Eikema and Ron Veltkamp. The label has many Dutch and other extreme metal bands on its roster, but has also rereleased many classic albums, including albums by Agathocles , Cryptopsy, Infernäl Mäjesty, Sadus, Toxik and Whiplash...

 and Century Media Records

Century Media Records

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The album now has a considerable reputation within the death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 genre; along with Suffocation

Suffocation (band)

Suffocation is an American death metal band that was formed in 1989 in Long Island, New York. The band comprises vocalist Frank Mullen, guitarists Terrance Hobbs and Guy Marchais, drummer Mike Smith and bassist Derek Boyer. Suffocation rose to prominence of death metal and created a blueprint for...

's Pierced From Within

Pierced from Within

Pierced from Within is an album released in 1995 by the technical death metal band Suffocation. "Synthetically Revived" is a re-recording of the song of the same name from the Human Waste EP and "Breeding the Spawn" is a re-recording of the title track from the band's previous album.Both this album...

, many credit it with revitalizing the genre during the mid-90s and adding an unprecedented influence on the technical death metal

Technical death metal

Technical death metal is a musical subgenre of death metal that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures. Technical experimentation in death metal began in the late '80s and early '90s by bands such as Death, Atheist and Cynic...

 and brutal death metal subgenres.

It is the first album to feature bassist Eric Langois and the last album to feature vocalist Lord Worm, until his return on 2005's Once Was Not

Once Was Not

Once Was Not is the fifth album by Cryptopsy.Unlike previous albums, where Lord Worm's lyrical content consisted of gore, blasphemy, and sex, his lyrics on Once Was Not dealt with more realistic topics that affect the human race, such as war, famine, plague, and death.A video was filmed for the...

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The cover artwork is a painting of Herodias

Herodias

Herodias was a Jewish princess of the Herodian Dynasty. Asteroid 546 Herodias is named after her.-Family relationships:*Daughter of Aristobulus IV...

 With the Head of John the Baptist

John the Baptist

John the Baptist was an itinerant preacher and a major religious figure mentioned in the Canonical gospels. He is described in the Gospel of Luke as a relative of Jesus, who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River...

by Elisabetta Sirani

Elisabetta Sirani

Elisabetta Sirani was an Italian Baroque painter whose father was the painter Giovanni Andrea Sirani of the School of Bologna-Biography:...

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The album starts with a sample from the The Exorcist III: Legion

The Exorcist III

The Exorcist III is a 1990 American supernatural thriller written and directed by William Peter Blatty. It is the second sequel of The Exorcist series and a film adaptation of Blatty's novel, Legion . The film stars George C. Scott, Brad Dourif, Ed Flanders, and Nicol Williamson...

movie and ends with a sample from Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness

Army of Darkness

Army of Darkness, also known as Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness or simply Evil Dead III, is a 1992 horror comedy fantasy action film directed by Sam Raimi. It is the third and final installment in The Evil Dead trilogy. The film was written by Raimi and his brother Ivan, produced by Robert Tapert,...

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Track listing

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

Credits

• Lord Worm - Vocals
• Jon Levasseur - Lead and rhythm guitars
• Eric Langlois - Bass
• Flo Mounier - Drums and backing vocals
• Eric Fiset & Steve Thibault - Backing Vocals