Originally Posted by The Batlord

As much as I've liked Suffocation over the years, my newfound love of Cryptopsy has kind of made me see them as their cool but inferior little brother. It's an unfair comparison, and it hasn't affected as much my appreciation for other brutal death metal bands, but a long time ago I associated both bands with being the two leading lights of the genre, so one leaping so far ahead of the other in my ears has kind of tainted the other. It also doesn't help that I've always had issues with Pierced from Within's too clean, weak production, and while Effigy of the Forgotten is raw and brutal as ****, it's also kind of obsolete when None So Vile exists. I don't know, but when I listen to Suffocation these days it just makes me want to listen to Cryptopsy.