Tasmania, Australia
Death Metal
Page online:
July 29, 2005
Last update/review:
September 1, 2022
Psycroptic
Psycroptic is a Tasmanian death metal band that formed in
1999, with their most recent album being
The Scepter Of The Ancients , released in 2003.
Scepter is a fine example of twisted, choppy, technical
death metal, with frequently changing riffs and extremely
tight musicianship.
Matthew Chalk displays a fine range of extreme vocal styles,
from the traditional low growls to blackish shrieks, thus
avoiding the tendency of death vocalists to reduce every lyric
to monotonic barking.
There is the tendency to favor the riff over the song, as is
common with technical bands like this, but there is enough
variance in the everchanging riffs to overlook the relative
lack of song identity.
Psycroptic is one of the better technical death metal bands
to emerge in some time.
Former Members/Guests
Matthew Chalk
vocals
Cameron Grant
bass
Discography
Studio
The Isle Of Disenchantment
2001
self-released
Carnival of vulgarity
The sword of uncreation
Condemned by discontent
Netherworld reality
The isle of disenchantment
Of dull eyes borne
Psycroptipath
Beneath the ground we dwell
The labyrinth
Matthew Chalk
Joe Haley
Cameron Grant
David Haley
The Scepter Of The Ancients
2003
Unique Leader
The colour of sleep
Battling the misery of organon
Lacertine forest
Psycrology
Skin Coffin
Cruelty incarnate
The valley of winds breath and dragons fire
A planetary discipline
The scepter from Jaar-gilon
Matthew Chalk
Joe Haley
Cameron Grant
David Haley
Symbols Of Failure
2006
Neurotic
Alpha Breed
Missionaries of a future to come
Merchants of deceit
Minions: the falleny
Repairing the dimensional cluster
Epoch of the gods
Our evolutionary architecture
An experiment in transience
Cleansing a misguided path
Jason Peppiatt
Joe Haley
Cameron Grant
David Haley
Ob(Servant)
2008
Neurotic
Ob(Servant)
A Calculated Effort
Slaves Of Nil
The Shifting Equilibrium
Removing The Common Bond
Horde in Devolution
Blood Stained Lineage
Immortal Army Of One
Initiate
Jason Peppiatt
Joe Haley
Cameron Grant
David Haley
Initiation
2010
Stomp
A Calculated Effort
Merchants of Deceit
Ob(Servant)
The Sword of Uncreation
Skin Coffin
Horde in Devolution
Carnival of Vulgarity
Epoch of the Gods
Lacertine Forest
Immortal Army of One
The Colour of Sleep
Initiate
Jason Peppiatt
Joe Haley
Cameron Grant
David Haley
The Inherited Repression
2012
Nuclear Blast
Carriers Of The Plague
Forward To Submission
Euphorinasia
The Throne Of Kings
Unmasking The Traitors
Become The Cult
From Scribe To Ashes
Deprivation
The Sleepers Have Awoken
Jason Peppiatt
Joe Haley
Cameron Grant
David Haley
Psycroptic
2015
Prosthetic
Echoes to Come
Ending
A Soul Once Lost
Cold
Setting the Skies Ablaze
Ideals That Won't Surrender
Sentence of Immortality
The World Discarded
Endless Wandering
Jason Peppiatt
Joe Haley
Cameron Grant
David Haley
As The Kingdom Drowns
2018
Prosthetic
We Were the Keepers
Frozen Gaze
Directive
Deadlands
As the Kingdom Drowns
Beyond the Black
Upon These Stones
Momentum of the Void
You Belong Here, Below
Jason Peppiatt
Joe Haley
Todd Stern
David Haley
The Watcher Of All
EP
2020
Agonia
The Watcher of All
A Fragile Existence
Jason Peppiatt
Joe Haley
Todd Stern
David Haley
Divine Council
2022
EVP
Rend Asunder
A Fool's Errand
This Shadowed World
Enslavement
Ashes of Our Empire
A Prophet's Council
Awakening
A Fragile Existence
Exitus
Jason Peppiatt
Joe Haley
Todd Stern
David Haley