Sceptocrypt Extreme Music Research

Mag reviews, label comments, & radio airplay

April 4, 2024

Here are current and older critiques of our works. If you want to write a review about any of our music so far, just fill hereunder. Thank you! This Odometer Syndrome (2026)Feel free to leave us your comments on our 1st single preview from our upcoming full-length aimed for sometime in 2026. Deadly Storm Zine (03/02/26) news about “This Odometer Syndrome” from the upcoming album The Collective at Total Rock (02/02/26), also cover many bands playing at Dark Clouds over Camden Festival, with music by Sceptocrypt 44mins into the show Muzika Mod Iehor Podcast 755 (22/01/26), elated to feature in this more commercial podcast at 17mins 30mins Metal Perv Podcast 639 (18/01/26), a feature covering the Dark Clouds over Camden…

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

February 22, 2024

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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Drummer & Vocalist wanted

February 20, 2024

Despite active with other bands/musical activities, the idea of reviving Sceptocrypt never left founding member Malcolm. Since late 2022 he started jamming some songs written in 2014 & newer ideas with different musicians, and there is now near to 2 LPs running time of music, so a full line-up is being sought to present it live & on record! We are currently a guitarist (doubling as vocalist for recordings only), a bassist & a samples/noize synth guyWe are meanwhile looking to welcome– a drummer– a vocalist As you can read at https://sceptocrypt.com/category/press/, the band has been reviewed in the 90s as“demo of the month”“a hell of a musical masterpiece”“one of the most brilliant demoes in years”“good solutions for their music,…

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New Sceptocrypt logo

February 16, 2024

We know that we promised a new work “The Wards Outside” for January 2024, but as we had a new logo in development, we decided to postpone the release by few weeks, as to include this new logo into the website and the single’s cover! Story goes that while Malcolm was in Malta last year he accidentally met Sceptocrypt’s 2nd vocalist and long time friend James Sciberras, few days before leaving the island. Having designed the original logo, we spoke about a new one, so he revamped the old one to include our new “extreme music research” tag into a more modern frame. So here for you our new logo for you to enjoy! We would be chuffed if you…

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Interviews

February 4, 2024

Here you find recent interviews from 2024 onwards as well as others from our 90s past.If you want to interview us for your online/printed mag or your podcast/radio program, check our bio, wrap some questions & send to [email protected]. Thank you for your time! In-store interview at Raven Records with Dj Elric of Into the Pit show from Metal Devastation Radio (23.02.2026)The day after our performance we were invited by DJ Elric to pop over at Raven Records in Camden for a chat. Both Elric and his sister Gemma were more than accommodating as we discussed Sceptocrypt old and new! Have a listen at https://www.mixcloud.com/Elric666/into-the-pit-with-dj-elric-interview-with-malcolm-callas-from-sceptocrypt/ melodija.eu online interview “Sceptocrypt’s Reinvention, Return, and Defiance of Boundaries!“(03.02.2026)The good chaps at Melodija love…

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Discography Overviews

February 3, 2024

The area where the press discusses Sceptocrypt’s whole discography as a whole rather than review one release! US music critic Jim Allford of Steel Notes Magazine wrapped up a few words about our discog. Going from release to release, lines as“definitely has a strange, but great rock feel to it….. goes through a few different levels, but will surely get your attention”“a Pink Floyd feel… you can feel yourself playing the guitar notes as they make you drift away to another time and place”“a bit demented as there are screams and contant beats going on. This song lasts a half an hour, so hang on to your seats”“really different, like jazz meets acid music, plus a bit of heavy metal”“this…

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Online & printed articles

February 2, 2024

These are articles about Sceptocrypt that have appeared over the years online or in printed format! There are way more printed articles from the 90s, but it calls for them being found among boxes back in Malta when Malcolm eventually visits.Meanwhile, enjoy some more recent ones hereunder. Koito Zine (11.01.2026) compares Sceptocrypt 1996 to 30 years later fast frwd to 2026. Cult Never Dies (Dec 2025) small mention about Dark Clouds over Camden festival and Sceptocrypt Melodija.eu (28.11.2025) discusses the new 2025 line-up, our 1st live appearance on 6th Feb 2026, and our vision forward Il-Mument newspaper (17.12.2023) news about Sceptocrypt’s comeback in 2023 (in Maltese) melodija.eu/ (25.11.2023) – news and concept behind comeback single “Oratorio Mortem 2 : The…

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The Wards Outside : New Single coming Jan 2024

December 15, 2023

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)

November 25, 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

November 20, 2023

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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