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Hobart, Australia (1999 – present)
Psycroptic is a technical death metal band from Hobart, Australia. The band is currently signed to Nuclear Blast and has so far released four full length albums.
They formed in 1999 by brothers Dave (drums) and Joe (guitar) Haley who had previously been involved in a band called Disseminate. That group had recorded a demo in 1998 before disbanding. Shortly afterward, the Haleys created Psycroptic with Cameron Grant on bass and vocalist Matthew Chalk, who soon after became a drummer with established local death metal act M.S.I… With assistance from the Tasmanian Council of the Arts, the band recorded ‘The Isle of Disenchantment’ that was designed only as a demo but the result impressed the band enough to release it as a proper CD. Shortly after it was released the band was invited to play shows in Melbourne and in late 2001 they featured at the annual Metal for the Brain festival in Canberra for the first time, later also appearing in 2003 and 2005.
The band recorded its second album ‘The Scepter of the Ancients’ in 2003 for release through American label Unique Leader. The same year the group played its first full Australian tour in support of American death metal band Incantation. The Haley brothers also joined Sydney-based industrial black metal band The Amenta during this period and recorded the album ‘Occasus’ with that group. Dave Haley also worked on an EP called “Atom and Time” with the Hobart black metal band Ruins.
They formed in 1999 by brothers Dave (drums) and Joe (guitar) Haley who had previously been involved in a band called Disseminate. That group had recorded a demo in 1998 before disbanding. Shortly afterward, the Haleys created Psycroptic with Cameron Grant on bass and vocalist Matthew Chalk, who soon after became a drummer with established local death metal act M.S.I… With assistance from the Tasmanian Council of the Arts, the band recorded ‘The Isle of Disenchantment’ that was designed only as a demo but the result impressed the band enough to release it as a proper CD. Shortly after it was released the band was invited to play shows in Melbourne and in late 2001 they featured at the annual Metal for the Brain festival in Canberra for the first time, later also appearing in 2003 and 2005.
The band recorded its second album ‘The Scepter of the Ancients’ in 2003 for release through American label Unique Leader. The same year the group played its first full Australian tour in support of American death metal band Incantation. The Haley brothers also joined Sydney-based industrial black metal band The Amenta during this period and recorded the album ‘Occasus’ with that group. Dave Haley also worked on an EP called “Atom and Time” with the Hobart black metal band Ruins.
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Phantasticabulo wrote:
New album is pretty awesome.
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mkvlela wrote:
great new album!!
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Sculpy wrote:
Where have the riffs gone? Every mid-paced 'groove' and fret-dancing widdly bit sounds exactly the same on I.R! I've creamed over every Psycroptic release until this one. Hugely disappointed.
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UndeadMessiah wrote:
"less gimmicks" The gimmicks were precisely what made psycroptic interesting
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Sleepforlife wrote:
The new record is holyshit-awesome! [2]
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DepressAmI wrote:
new album is their best A Fkuing Killer!!!
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bloozclooz wrote:
new album is their best IMO. less gimmicks than the other releases.
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Jiddles wrote:
Review of The Inherited Repression - http://orlandooom.com/2012/02/08/psycroptic-the-inherited-repression/
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Sexdictator_69 wrote:
great new album!!
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Jekku666 wrote:
The new record is holyshit-awesome!
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papiesztanczy wrote:
The Inherited Repression didn't fuck up my mind like Ob(Servant) or Scepter of the Ancients, but I must admit that Deprivation is a pretty tight track.
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jonowev wrote:
This is a band at the peak of their confidence and musical ability. Excellent new album!
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Brandon_Exylum wrote:
Vocals are boring as fuck on this album but damn are the Haley bros badass!
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papiesztanczy wrote:
new album lol
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Cintor wrote:
Bow to The scepter of the ancient !
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ermal1991 wrote:
There are some riffs i could listen all day but overal it gets a bit boring. Of course to me its nothing infront of Scepter of the Ancients. Whoever needs the link for the new album though can contact me.
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Mercenarion wrote:
He was best on Symbols of Failure [2]
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UndeadMessiah wrote:
Peppeit's vocals are at an all-time low on the new record. He was best on Symbols of Failure
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simon91hollnich wrote:
i like all songs from the new good record :) Hellyeah good Sound :)
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metalphil wrote:
Interesting that everyone is talking about Chalky, btw, because dude's vocals were really dynamic and interesting on the last album. So, it's just that they got lame and monotonous on this one.
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