CYPRUS The Librettist (2016) CD Digipak

Australian grindcore doesn't get enough credit. While everyone was looking overseas, Cyprus were in the rehearsal room building something genuinely unhinged.

Released in 2016, The Librettist is a compact act of violence, the kind of mathcore record that rewards repeated listens and punishes anyone who thought they had it figured out. Cyprus sit comfortably in that brutal pocket where The Dillinger Escape Plan's chaos meets the grinding precision of Cattle Decapitation, with a dissonance that'll remind you why Meshuggah broke everyone's brain in the first place. This is Melbourne-adjacent underground metal at its most confrontational, and that's exactly why it's here.

Full-length EP. Digipak CD format. Australian release, 2016. Genre: Grind/Mathcore.

Fans of: The Dillinger Escape Plan, Cattle Decapitation, Meshuggah.