THE SILENT CALL

"The Silent Call" is an EP release by Dutch technical/progressive thrash metal act Cryptosis. The EP was released through Century Media Records in December 2023. It follows the release of Cryptosis' debut full-length studio album "Bionic Swarm" (March 2021). "The Silent Call" features two new original compositions and two live tracks. The two latter are tracks found in their studio versions on "Bionic Swarm".

Both "The Silent Call" and "Master of Life" could well have been included on "Bionic Swarm" as they are much in the same sci-fi themed technical/progressive thrash metal style (featuring almost symphonic sounding keyboards) as the material featured on the full-length studio album. The two live tracks feature a very well sounding recording quality, and if I didn´t know it, I would have thought that these were studio recordings. The occasional "hey, "hey, "hey" from the audience also reveals that it´s indeed live recordings though. With the amount of keyboards used, I´m assuming that Cryptosis use a lot of backing tracks (they are a trio and probably don´t handle keyboards on stage), which explans the relatively polished live sound, but the guitars, bass, drums, and vocals also sound really good in the mix.

So if you enjoyed "Bionic Swarm" this is definitely a nice little stop-gap release between "Bionic Swarm" and the March 2025 second full-length studio album "Celestial Death". A 3.5 star (70%) rating is deserved.

(Originally posted on Metal Music Archives).