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Fast'n furious crossover/NYHC and it ain't too bad.
Seizure Crypt hails from NYC and plays a version of crossover hardcore that is a little more intricate and varied than what the average crossover band has to offer. The dual-vocals are one of the better elements of the album as they weave in and out of each other, do call-and-response, and layer themselves to a unique mix. The effort was recorded and mastered by Don Fury (who has worked with Sick of it All and Agnostic Front) at Cyclone Sound and it has a nice raw edge without sounding sloppy. Speed abounds, but songs like "Herein the Problem Lies" show the band reaching outside the box with a slow, semi-sludgy riff.
Hello My Name Is Madness is a damn good album that thus far has slipped under too many radars. If you think Municipal Waste is a little too gimmicky and polished, and you long for something more raw and punk-like, I'd highly recommend giving this a try.

-Tyler

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Seizure Crypt - www.seizurecrypt.com
Hello, My Name Is... Madness (released 2007)
3:16 Productions
The heavy rock outfit, Seizure Crypt is back with a new album and a new bass player. Still playing high octane, heavy punk rock, sped up to the point of exploding drummers. I'm telling you, I don't know how the drummer keeps up on many of these tracks. It's gotta be a fucking workout! Maybe that's why so many drummers are so skinny? Seizure Crypt has provided eight brand spanking new tracks on this release, produced by the legendary Don Fury, whose credits include Agnostic Front and Sick Of It All. from the sound of the eight tracks on here, you can here the tweaks that Don himself may have made for the band. The production itself is cleaner and crisper. The heavy bass lines and intricate guitar is still in place for Seizure Crypt. Additionally, the addition of more aggressive and potent vocals; vocals that weave in and out, up and down throughout the music, it provides the band a fuller more powerful sound. You can hear that clearly on the opening track "The Great Defector", as well as on the exciting "Thankless" track. I may have said it in previous reviews of Seizure Crypt, but it bears repeating...this is fast music, angry music. Music that you put in the stereo and go for a angst ridden, Red Bull and vodka fueled, rampage down the highway, at speed that are illegal even in Montana. Fans of the crossover styles of rock, hardcore, and metal already know the power and energy the band delivers through their releases, and "Hello, My Name Is..." is no exception to the Seizure Crypt catalog. I hear that Seizure Crypts live shows are something not to be missed, again with their boundless energy in the music pouring off of the stage in wave after wave of destructive rock ferocity. Support these longtime members of the hardcore and rock scene of New York City, and visit their website, pick up a CD, and tell 'em Hussieskunk sent ya! -MG

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Hello. My Name is...Madness
Seizure Crypt

Released: Jul 1, 2007
Label: 3:16 Productions
Reviewed by: Max Gambill

Ok, let's go ahead and get the good stuff out of the way first. The only thing slightly interesting about this CD is the fact that the insert features a pop-up picture in the middle of it. Unfortunately, it's a pop-up picture of Seizure Crypt.
Imagine your 40 year old uncle listens to Leftover Crack and is really into N.Y.C. punk bands. Imagine your uncle's favorite past time is hanging out in really bad dive-bars. Now, imagine your uncle tried to start a band combining his two favorite interests. Well, he'd probably start a band like Seizure Crypt.
I really don't even know where to start with this band. The album "artwork" is awful. The album title, Hello. My Name is...Madness, is awful. The album itself is something beyond awful. This is the worst excuse for punk rock I've ever heard.
On the plus side, the press release is hilarious and should be enough to deter anyone from ever exposing their ears to any of this bands output. A few highlights; the second song is described as a "metal/rap concoction[.] Not in a Limp Bizkit kind of way, but in a Seizure Crypt kind of way." Sorry guys, that's no better.
Keep this "album" far, far away from your stereo. Seizure Crypt have released nothing more than a cheap plastic frisbee.

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TRACKLISTING
1. The Great Defector
2. The Deadend
3. Enigma
4. Herein The Problem Lies
5. Thankless
6. Where The Bodies Are Buried
7. Inhuman Nature
8. Eulogy Seizure Crypt - Hello My Name Is...Madness

review by Jesse A Lambertson exclusively for BRUTALISM.com

It is good to see such a band, Seizure Crypt, on the scene at least because of their fairly creative angle to hardcore. I mean, I do hear Black Flag and Minor Threat when I hear this CD, HELLO MY NAME IS…MADNESS, butI hear Suicidal Tendencies most of all. It is not the guitar or the actual sounds in the music that jog my music-memory this way, it is the vocals. They dance that line, as have so many other more popular “hard music” bands in the last ten to thirteen years, between rap and hardcore/punk. My observation is no criticism, it is simply an observation. I am a fan of many of the bands that Seizure Crypt claims as their influences and muses: Murphy’s law, Minor Threat, and Pantera (I am only a miniscule fan of Pantera).

Seizure Crypt is from Queens, NY,NY,USA and they have stabilized themselves in the NY Hardcore scene. Their sound has that tight Minor Threat turn on a dim hardcore songwriting skill, but the clean metal yelling that makes me think of Suicidal tendencies’ “You Can’t bring me Down.” These guys do not play metal in the classic sense, but the guitars are fuller than any old school hardcore band ever played. The disparity in sounds is surely due to the change in technology and the way American culture pays for its band pieces now. I think there was a much more punk rock “cheap-ass” aesthetic and ideology in the days of the mid 1980s in American hardcore. Plus the band has obviously been exposed to a plethora of bands that barely either had barely any or no recordings at the time of the normal American hardcore. So all in all, I think Seizure Crypt has released a refreshing hardcore/punk CD in HELLO MY NAME IS…MADNESS and it is made for that scene through and through. Read their pages, you will see their intents.
Seizure Crypt
band@seizurecrypt.com
http://www.seizurecrypt.com

316 Productions
mikesos1@aol.com
http://www.316productions.com

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Reviewer: Eric

The hardcore scene is full of achievers and disappointments. As of late hardcore bands have been flying over to the money making genre, metalcore. Seizure Crypt is not flying over to the metalcore scene any time soon, not with the release of their first album, Hello, My Name Is…Madness. Hardcore has finally found a band that’s worth mentioning again.

Take everything you know about modern day hardcore bands and try to forget about that for the rest of this review. Seizure Crypt is primary a hardcore band, but they also sound a lot like some of trash metals biggest stars, mainly Cryptic Slaughter and Anthrax. This is the kind of album that will make you believe in a dying genre.

One thing that sticks out about this album is its raw feel. The Great Defector, the first track, has this drum solo that almost brings a tear in my eye. I haven’t heard hardcore/thrash like this since Municipal Waste’s Hazardous Mutation.

I have to say some of the guitar work on this album is pretty good. It’s fast and it hits you right in the gut. Thankless is one of the strongest guitar tracks on the album. Again it is picture perfect old school hardcore/thrash. From the fast instrumentation to the vocals, Thankless is one of those tracks that will blow you away.

On a down side the albums production might turn some of those away. I think it’s good, it has that old school sound, but again this can be a double edged sword for these guys. Seizure Crypt isn’t on a huge label so keep that into consideration when you listen to this album.

Before I wrap this up I have to say one thing about this album that will blow you away. The booklet features a pop-up! Yes this is probably one of the first pop-ups in an album, it’s totally insane.

Final Verdict
Fans of old school hardcore and thrash metal will be thanking Seizure Crypt. The band has a little toning up to do with their sound, but as first effort this is pretty good. Give this album a shot whenever you get the chance.

Rating
8 out of 10

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Seizure Crypt - Hello My Name Is Madness ..

Tinnitus Music Webzine
By Herbert Chwalek

TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN


3:16 Productions
RELEASED.: July 2007
Volume Page
Game time: 23:28
Style: Hardcore


Since time is really beautiful on thick trousers. Punk, metal and hardcore mixes man, as a producer is Don Fury (Agnostic Front, Sick Of It All) at the start and the whole thing look like a tornado on the listener herfallen. A pity only that 23 minutes calm prevails. Thin Geschrabbel, null Groove, blunt Rumgeblöke and completely boring songs. This is not a good time music. This is from beginning to end just crap.
True embarrassing especially the slow passages, zero energy, and especially the guitar because dudeln times like pointless to himself, instead of an ordinary times reef to play. My goodness, there are even better student bands, not just get the people and must deal with their annoying slices. However, the average speed Parts partly what Hello My Name Is .. Madness front retains total crash. Nevertheless, Seizure Crypt is by far the mieseste what long time came from New York. Very, very cruel.

2 by 10 points



Tinnitus assessment scale:
0-2 rubbish! 3-4 Especially still audible 5-6 mediocrity 7-8 Well 9 top 10 Perfect

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Review: HELLO, MY NAME IS ... MADNESS MCD (316 Productions)

Artist: SEIZURE CRYPT

Ox-fanzine / Issue # 75

TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN

SEIZURE CRYPT come from New York and indulge accordingly NYHC tradition, but not in the conventional sense, but to play a kind of crossover from MERAUDER and BLOOD FOR BLOOD, stand with one leg in the metal and the other in punk rock. And that is really so crazy as it sounds - crazy genius! Together with producer Don Fury SEIZURE CRYPT here is a genuine piece of music abgefahrenes succeeded, that the term crossover for itself entirely redefined. Hard to describe the whole thing, but in all styles make breakthroughs SC but everything just right. Mal rapidly, sometimes to totally relaxed, sometimes more beatlastig. Each of the eight songs is a unique and makes an incredible amount of fun! If you have heard. (23:33) (7) (Tobias Ernst)

© by OX-FANZINE / Issue 75

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What the Critics Say...

After proving with their debut EP that they could make music sound like crap on purpose, New Yorkers Seizure Crypt decided to tidy up, play together in time and (mostly) in tune, and show what they could do with a more professional sounding selection of tracks for their second release, 2007's Hello, My Name is...Madness. Don't be fooled, now: the overall vibe is still raw as sushi and the production earthy and honest (otherwise known as analog, oh you children of the 21st Century), but there's now enough audio separation to let the band's musicianship shine through, and for their lyrics be understood. As for the musical direction, most songs, like "The Great Defector," "Thankless," "Inhuman Nature" and "Euology," remain focused on familiar speedcore, but others, like "Enigma" and "Herein Lies the Problem," step off the gas pedal to indulge in some serious dirges. Meanwhile, "The Deadend" sees Seizure Crypt sounding like the Beastie Boys jamming with Biohazard and, on the album standout "Where the Bodies are Buried," penning their best song yet, with lyrics inspired by one band member's job as an ambulance-riding EMS worker. In short, Seizure Crypt has weathered lineup changes and no real record company support to speak of, to hone what used to constitute terminal nerve damage into rather inspired underground punk and metal -- who would have thought it could be so?

~ Eduardo Rivadavia, All Music Guide

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2008
Review: Seizure Crypt - Hello My Name Is Madness

Label: 316 Productions

Released: 2007

At their best, Seizure Crypt is a rehash of 80s New York hardcore, wavering between its earlier thin punk and later more metallic veins. Those high points are energetic, aggressive songs with the typical trappings of the genre: unbridled speed alternating with slow churning grooves, metallic riffs, growls, infectious anger. Both "The Deadend" and "Thankless" channel at least a little bit of Age of Quarrel-era Cro-Mags, but these are the exception. Most of Seizure Crypt's songs are mediocre hardcore tunes that fall well short of those they are emulating. Their dual vocal approach should serve to add some depth and color, but frankly, it's hardly noticeable. Sure, there are two voices, but they don't work together as a sum greater than its parts. There's just two separate singers, but nothing dynamic that results from them. To make matters worse, they throw in a bit Black Sabbath heaviness on "Herein the Problem Lies," but the song is so flat that it's stagnant next to the fast pace of the rest of the album rather than being a successful change-up. Inexplicably poor production courtesy of Don Fury, who's worked with a hardcore who's who from Agnostic Front to Youth of Today, may have hidden some strengths, but not likely enough to make this a must hear album even within the purist hardcore community. If Seizure Crypt were just a small scene local hardcore band, they might be a stand out, but not on the NYC or national stage. There's just too much competition and Hello My Name Is Madness doesn't offer enough to compete at that level.

Rating: 4/10

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• SEIZURE CRYPT - "Hello… My Name is Madness", 2007
• (316 Productions)
• Now a well-polished crossover act.

Most folks probably missed it, but during this site's down time last year I wrote a review on the debut EP of NYC's SEIZURE CRYPT. To sum it up, it was the greatest breath of fresh air in 2006. The jovial insanity and DIY charm of those seven tracks made this one about as addictive as crack - making them the perfect choice to round out my Top 10 list for the year.
Now, as 2007 draws to a close, we finally have a follow-up in the form of "Hello…My Name is Madness", and while the times they are a-changing for these hardcore heroes, that's not a bad thing. This time around, the amateurish production and cover art has given way to crisper (read: more metallic) guitar distortion, tighter compositions and… drum triggers? To give an analogy, it's kind of like jumping from the debut of SUICIDAL TENDENCIES straight to, say, the "Controlled by Hatred" EP. Well, we all gotta grow up sometime.
First, let's get the bad news out of the way. For those that actually did hear the band's previous effort, you've already heard three out of these eight songs. But while this may be a slight bummer, the old songs have been given a new spin. "The Great Defector", now the opener, has been given a sweet new build-up intro, the slow and somber "Herein the Problem Lies" shows the band experimenting with timpani drums (!), and the lyrics have been slightly reworked in "Inhuman Nature". And not to worry… the hilarious dueling vocals of Tom Reardon and Mike SOS, which were one of the key selling points of their last effort, are still intact and as charismatic as ever.
As far as the new songs, there's a new sense of variety to be had. While tracks "Thankless" and "Where the Bodies are Buried" reiterate the rapid-fire thrash style the band's already known for, the far more mid-paced "The Deadend" and "Enigma" introduce an element of groove that wasn't there before. After that, album closer "Eulogy" is a MOTORHEAD-inspired shot of rock energy that hints at just how musically capable this band truly is.
The best part is that the strides taken by the band to cross over have been paying off, if the wealth of positive reviews from metal 'zines posted on the band's website is any indication. For this reviewer, this is no surprise whatsoever. Heed this advice: after SEIZURE CRYPT is done with you, check your ass for footprints!

rating 4/5

- Cardona

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SEIZURE CRYPT (USA)
HELLO MY NAME IS MADNESS
Written by Isaak on Tuesday 23 October, 2007. Last updated on Saturday 03 November, 2007
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I'm not sure if Seizure Crypt will appeal to the average reader on Vampire Magazine, but who knows. This group plays eighties crossover with some early nineties tendencies and the emphasis more on hardcore than metal. On some songs they are fully hardcore. The band uses two vocalists of which one sounds very old school eighties and the other a lot like Evan Seinfeld (Biohazard).

I hear a lot of Crumbsuckers, Youth of Today, DRI, Agnostic Front, Sick of it All, Cro-Mags, Propain and some nineties Anthrax (the intro to 'The Great Defector') in their music. Musically there a also a few grooving Biohazard moments ('The Deadend' for instance) to be found but on the whole Seizure Crypt is either a whole lot faster ('Thankless') or incredibly doomy ('Herein The Problem Lies'). The vocals reminding me of Bomb Disneyland on the 'Nail Mary EP' are a pretty enjoyable detail.

Seizure Crypt sounds much more underground and deliberately sloppier than your average modern hardcore/crossover band. The two-way vocals on the chorus of 'Inhuman Nature' even remind me of some nineties Agathocles punk tunes. Closing song 'Eulogy' has the most metal orientated moments.

"Hello My Name Is Madness" has a nice underground feeling. The vocal variation and very diverse tempi are certainly the highlights of the album but to be honest it is rather too inconsistent to be memorable.

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SEIZURE CRYPT
"Hello, My Name Is Madness"
CD released by: 3:16 Productions

Hmmm, how do I describe this one. Well, there's too much stuff going on which makes it kind of hard. Musically I'd put this band next to swedish Clawfinger (which is probably the one band you don't want to be compared to). This metal/hardcore crossover band is really bad and I can't really find anything cool about 'em. I hate to say it, but this is crap... It's actually one of the worst records I've heard this year.
/Christer Davidsson, MUTINYZINE.COM

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Seizure Crypt - Hello My Name is Madness

Seizure Crypt's "Hello My Name is Madness" is seven hard hitting tracks showing no remorse for their thoughts on the world. "Hello My Name is Madness" has a problem here and there with production and song structure. Seizure Crypt is one of those bands that must take a lot of pride in their live shows because the CD is a good reflection on it. "Hello My Name is Madness" comes off as a practice session for a live show they had coming up and less as a music CD. If you enjoyed Biohazard's and D.F.L.'s first records they put out, then you will enjoy "Hello My Name is Madness" for the real and raw sound they bring. Don't be a bitch, get in the moshpit with Seizure Crypt.

SeizureCrypt.com

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Seizure Crypt - Hello, my name is...Madness

User Rating: 5/5 Best

Written by Henrik, German only...

Band aus dem Big Apple, bestehend aus Leuten, die sich seit Jahren in der Szene bewegen, welche typischen NYHC spielt, der schön auf Dicke Hose macht. Ihr Stil ist stark an den späten 90ern orientiert, oft rasend schnell aber immer mit einem kräftigen Hip Hop Touch, der teils durch groovige Parts, teils durch den Rap-artigen Gesang der beiden Frontmänner erzeugt wird. Erinnert mich an Skarhead oder auch No redeeming social value und ist für Fans der New Yorker Schule sicher kein Fehlgriff, so lange man nicht eine toughe Metalmosh-Platte erwartet.

www.seizurecrypt.com
www.316produtions.com

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Seizure Crypt
"Hello my name is...madness"

3:16 Productions

American Hardcore, with touches of Metal. I´m no big Hardcore fan, but to me the music they perform is pretty straight forward, like most other bands in this genre. The only thing that set them a part is their flirtation with Metal, and when they are coming closer to this genre, they become much more interesting. The combination between Hardcore and Metal works out really well here, even though it only comes in small portions. (w)

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CD Review: Seizure Crypt - Hello, My Name Is Madness
Seizure Crypt - Hello, My Name is...Madness
2007 3:16 Productions
Ray Van Horn, Jr.
12/30/2007


Some bands purport themselves to be hardcore, and some are hardcore, the brain-busting, lick the glass off the floor and light your farts on fire kind of hardcore. Back in the day, awards for nutjob hardcore purism would've gone straight to Gang Green, Cryptic Slaughter and the Crumbsuckers, just to name a few.

New York's Seizure Crypt would assuredly corral themselves an honorary badge of mayhem just for their zany stage antics on road jaunts called the "Fuck Pay to Play Tour" and "Bring Your Shit Tour," which includes demoltion of 12-foot ladders and instigation of a Thanksgiving prop fight amongst their moshing fans. In short, Seizure Crypt is freakin' bonkers and they prove it with every rabid lick of Hello, My Name Is...Madness.

There's no style, barely a form and hardly any redemptive value to Seizure Crypt, but they don't pretend to possess any of it. Their blazing fast hybrid of thrash, metal and grindcore is the stuff of jacked-up lunacy. You can hear the spit spatter their mikes and that might be the sound of someone taking a leak on the studio floor (and at Seizure Crypt's speed, that has to be a messy stream) because these guys just wreck without abandon and bellow like they're not satisfied until they've fully aggravated the shit out of their neighbors. Seizure Crypt doesn't eat refried beans or gulp down thorazines in Queens; they toss beer bottles over their shoulders and take inspiration from the splintering shatter sound.

Mike SOS leads his insane stomp posse on cuts like "The Great Defector," "Thankless" and "The Deadend" with mongrel yelps that if nothing, has a brutal honesty about it. There's no sugarcoating, no subscribing to baritone-choked hocking that's the norm of a post-Biohazard young gun hardcore scene. Mike SOS and his roaring cohort (and band founder) Tom Reardon might as well shout toe-to-toe with Billy Milano. If you're witness to this tryst, bring rags to wipe the saliva off of your forehead in the slimy aftermath, because that's how Seizure Crypt operates; no fucking around, no selling out, no wussing things down. You either keep up with their skullcrushing zaniness or you hightail it straight for the yellow line to Midtown.

Seizure Crypt brandishes a little bit of Black Flag prowess on "Engima" and "Herein the Problem Lies," as well as some Agnostic Front crunch on "Inhuman Nature," which signals that there is some substance beneath their unapologetic disorder. As Seizure Crypt is currently working on a new album, it should be interesting to see what direction they go from here, if any. As it is, Hello, My Name Is...Madness is the sound of 4:00 a.m. alley defecation and it works like a charm.

Rating: ***1/2
POSTED BY RAY VAN HORN, JR. AT 7:59 AM

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