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“The Wards Outside” out 22 Feb 2024 : Ready to play a game?

Are you ready to play a game with Sceptocrypt? Shamelessly, and with no pardon why a tune has to be short, to even be called a song, or to please a format that the market or trends ask for, we present you a 12min+ soundscape entitled “The Wards Outside”! Looking at the father of the European avant-garde, Monsieur Antonin Artaud, unjustly incarcerated for his forward-thinking Theatre of Cruelty, here shouting his lungs out to a deaf society on a palette of extreme metal rifferama, with hidden influences from other genres! So back to the game!Can you decipher what the backward singing towards the end of our tune is telling you? Or where “Or, cet esprit venu des Indiens d’Amérique ressort…

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The Wards Outside : New Single coming Jan 2024

As some might have read, we launched an experimental manifesto upon ourselves back in Nov 2023, of which you can read at https://sceptocrypt.com/2023/11/19/manifesto-2023/. In line with this new vision, we dropped a comeback track “Oratorio Mortem 2 : The Unwanted Requiem” that caught some by surprise – despite our extreme metal past, this leaned more towards neo-folk, with parts even hinting at flamenco. All fits the new breadth of view that will be gradually explored by us, revealed by you! Anyway, in January, you get to preview more of the sound we are working on, through a new song called “The Wards Outside”. Welcoming non-metal influences in disguise, this song will predominantly come across as a full-on extreme metal assault…

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Oratorio Mortem 2 : The Unwanted Requiem (New song after 24yrs absence, released 25.11.2023)

Hello all, this is Malcolm, founder of Sceptocrypt in 1992 in Malta, re-launching the band back in 2023 here in London!How to find the right words to start this? While elated to finally share new music after 24 years, on the other hand returning with a requiem isn’t the most fashionable thing isn’t it? But we never followed trends anyway…… So why celebrate a return with a requiem? Here’s the scoop!Back in September this year, I got the call that my mom Doris Callus was very unwell. I left London the day after for her to pass away on 25.09.2023, just 1 day after my arrival in Malta. Having only seen her remotely the last couple of years, I wanted…

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Sceptocrypt’s new song after 24 years away

Hey everyone, Sceptocrypt (a band that existed from 1992-99 in Malta), finally re-launches itself in London after 24 years, which brings us to 2023!How to find the right words to present this? While elated to finally share new music after such a long absence, we will be returning with a requiem! Not the most fashionable thing isn’t it? But we never followed trends anyway…… So visit this page again on 25th November, where we reveal our new (dark-ish) song, its full artwork (yes what you are seeing is only a teaser) and the whole story behind it. It is going to be a juxtaposition of feelings – of darkness meets light! For now we invite you to flow effortlessly within…

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