Once Was Not is the fifth album by Canadian technical death metal band Cryptopsy.
Once Was Not is the first album to feature original vocalist Lord Worm since 1996's None So Vile, and would be his last with the band. It is also the first album not to feature original guitarist Jon Levasseur. Unlike previous albums, where Lord Worm's lyrical content consisted of gore, blasphemy, and sex, his lyrics on Once Was Not dealt with topics that affect the human race, such as war, famine, plague, and death.
A digipack edition was released, limited to 10,000 copies, which comes in an embossed digipack with an entirely gold-ink-printed booklet.
A video was filmed for the track "The Pestilence That Walketh in Darkness".
Oh come all ye unfaithful
Decaying and wretched
To this cradle of impiety
To lay your impure heads
Fare thee well
Or fare thee ill:
One way or another
Some blood shall spill
What to do?
Inter? Cremate all those who've died from all the hate
From this execrable aggregate
That nurtures the corrupt?
Proselytes
Anchorites
Crusaders, wet me with your cathar kiss
Bow to them?
Crawl for them
Those loathsome mahometic effigies?
No!
Once, there were boundaries
The lay of the land was well defined
Came a hell of rats, and now
«Le temps entre chien et loup» is nigh
«Manquerais-je de Fidélité dans mon Pays? Jamais!
Cessons nos reculs pour nous trouver des bastions
Dans des terres lointaines:
Les fauves nous harcélent á tout jamais
C'est donc á nos de passer á l'action»
In houses of fire, where everyone dies
On the killing grounds of war, in the torn flesh and flies
I know I saw you there
In the heart of disease, where love is a stone
On the faces of those whose hate is as bone
I know I saw you there
Where Hatred rules supreme
Once Was Not is the fifth album by Canadian technical death metal band Cryptopsy.
Once Was Not is the first album to feature original vocalist Lord Worm since 1996's None So Vile, and would be his last with the band. It is also the first album not to feature original guitarist Jon Levasseur. Unlike previous albums, where Lord Worm's lyrical content consisted of gore, blasphemy, and sex, his lyrics on Once Was Not dealt with topics that affect the human race, such as war, famine, plague, and death.
A digipack edition was released, limited to 10,000 copies, which comes in an embossed digipack with an entirely gold-ink-printed booklet.
A video was filmed for the track "The Pestilence That Walketh in Darkness".
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