#361 Psycroptic - Inside the Metal

“It’s the most readable death metal logo I’ve ever seen in my life…”

Dave and Joe Haley.

If you’re trying to understand the importance of this particular drum & guitar team, just think of some of the other legendary “band of brothers” in the metal community that come to mind who have gone on to elevate and transform modern music as we know it…brothers such as Alex & Eddie Van Halen and Vinnie & Darrell Abbott.

Formed in 1999 (“the year of the Matrix”) and hailing from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, technical death metal juggernauts PSYCROPTIC have swiftly evolved from the stereotypical “cookie monster” style of traditional death metal into an exponentially advanced, ultra precise, tech death riff machine of such complex artistry & surgical precision that the only proper response to have when listening to them is to laugh out loud in amazement and exclaim “WHOA!” with utter disbelief, shock, and awe at such incredible technical proficiency and prowess.

Hear one of the most complimentary voicemails we’ve ever received, never forget that “you’ve gotta use your teeth” whenever you are “schlebbin or schluppin”, and find out how snakes bang when you JOIN US as we go INSIDE THE METAL with the most technically gifted band of tech death Aussies we’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to with PSYCROPTIC.

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Show Notes:

(00:01): “Do-Da apparently is a term for…the entertainment center…man’s best friend.../

“Whatever you preserve…” (Deserve + Prefer) / “There was some crazy…1986 thunder yesterday…”/ “You count between the flash and the boom…”/ #funnyfunmovie /

“Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die…”/ “That applies literally to sex, drugs, and metal…”/ #RussellsReflectionsMovieEdition / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** /

***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST & THE BUNKERPOON CENTER FOR METAL EXCELLENCE!!!*** / “Remastered thunder…”

(04:37): “Let’s use stats in the right way…”/

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“I’ve oversold The Hog Story so much, I’m sorry…”/

“We’ve got the dogs who aren’t paying a dime into the Patreon…” / #Patreon #MembershipDrive / “I didn’t cup, I didn’t exacerbate it…”/

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“I like my revenge best served cold…” / #Prong / “I’m about to run out of back episodes…”/

“He left another message…”/ #MissouriMoose / “It’s gonna be a button, I know…”/

#BlacktoothGrin PLASTIC JESUS (Blossom & Decay – 2009) /

“It’s doomy…that sounds like open road…trees on the side of the road…”/ “Chrisssssss…”/

“Let’s save that…for the actual episode…”/

(13:38): “Big Thanks to Norvyn…and HAIL to our friends Down Under…” / #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS: PSYCROPTIC / #technicaldeathmetal /

“The Tasmanian Devil…to me, I think about #Cornholio but before Cornholio was Cornholio…”/ From Hobart, Tasmania, Australia / Psycroptic has been active since 1999 / ***New Album Alert: The Pulse of Annihilation (released 07/17/2026) *** /

“What do you think about their logo?” /

“It’s the most readable death metal logo I’ve ever seen in my life…”/ #Sanguisugabogg /

“God Bless You…”

(17:30): #Psycroptic / The Isle of Disenchantment – 2001 / CARNIVAL OF VULGARITY /

PSYCROPTIPATH / “I think it’s cool that they incorporated their name into a song title…”/

#cookiemonster / “Is that Hulk Hogan?”/ “No band starts out, rarely…rarely does a band start out of the gate and they have awesome production…”

(20:46): The Scepter of the Ancients – 2003 /

“You can’t read their album titles without talking like that…I feel like I need a robe, and a staff, and a longer beard, and longer hair…”/ THE COLOUR OF SLEEP /

“That’s weird, because their later stuff doesn’t sound like this…I wonder if we’ll find the turning point…”/ PSYCROLOGY / “So you’re saying the 3rd album might be the turning point…or the TIPPING POINT…”

(25:00): Symbols of Failure – 2006 /

“This came out on #BlackSabbathDay 36 years after the debut of #BlackSabbath …”/

“You’re right…”/ “Wait…say that again…what did you just say?” / “It was a matter of time…”/

ALPHA BREED / “New singer…” (vs the first 2 albums…) / “How does he do that the entire show?”/ “They’ve got the coke lines…”/ MERCHANTS OF DECEIT / “Those riffs are sick…”/

“I can hear elements of #Death (the band) in there…”/

“It may not be a breakdown but it’s something different…”/

(29:40): Ob(Servant) – 2008 / “There’s still hope…”/ OB(SERVANT) /

“Ohhh, this was released on my birthday…”/ “It’s in 4/4…”/ “WHOA!”/

“Here’s the different part…there’s always a different part…”/

“I saw something the other day talking about that song… (Behind the Crooked Cross) /

BEHIND THE CROOKED CROSS (See Also: #Slayer – South of Heaven – 1988) /

#TourEdition

(35:03): The Inherited Repression – 2012 / “That needs to be an episode…the best coke lines…”/ CARRIERS OF THE PLAGUE / “Way better production…more modern like what we’ve heard recently…”/ “That’s the tipping point, right there…”/ “This is the first one that doesn’t sound like traditional death metal…”/ NOTE: “(Ob(Servant)) was their first for Nuclear Blast…”/ THE THRONE OF KINGS / “That’s got more of a thrashy vocal vibe…”/

“I can’t even wrap my brain around that, dude…”/ Joe Haley – guitar /

“This dude should be in every guitar magazine…this dude IS a walking guitar magazine!”/

“They definitely grew out of the whole cookie monster, traditional death metal…”/

“Alright, the next one…it’s their eponymous…that’s the fancy word for ‘self-titled’…”

“See, again, I didn’t cup…guess what? I’m cupping next time…”

(40:56): Psycroptic – 2015 / “Notice that the logo is different…”/ Psycroptic Personnel /

“You know what that means? Brother combo…”/ #markthetime /

“I just wanna get to wherever my dick is…do snakes have dicks? Do they have vags? How do they fuck?”/ #IDontKnow / “Birds do it, bees do it…I know they’ve got rhinos…”/

ECHOES TO COME / “It’s more thrashy, yeah…”/ “I don’t know why that guy is not on every guitar magazine cover everywhere…” / “WHOA!”/ “Elements of black metal in there…”/

“I’ll bet it’s gonna be just like the #VanHalen thing…the drummer should be on every drum magazine everywhere…” (Dave Haley – drums) / “It’s like that…going back to that record right there (pointing to Forbidden Evil) …”/ “Mr. Petrucci…I offer a challenge, sir…”/

“These guys are professionals…”/ “Schlebbin’ or schluppin’?”/ COLD /

“I’m just gonna sit here in amazement again…”/ “HFS! Not on an acoustic…are you shitting me!?”/ “That’s kinda groove…”/ “I wanna see it live…I wanna believe it by seeing it live…”/

“You could do one…how are you gonna do the other one?”/ “Make that whole thing a button…”/ #guillotine / “You’ve gotta use your teeth…”

(51:00): As the Kingdom Drowns – 2018 / “New bass player…and HAIL to The Haleys”/

“Everything they do is badass!!!”/ “We just Rogan’d these guys…”/

“Look at the #cokelines …” / “I like when we branch off and try new stuff…”/ “It’s like having a steak at The Waffle House vs Longhorn vs Bones…stepping up the game…”/

“(Psycroptic are) currently touring in Australia...in fairness, (Australia) is the size of the United States…”/ #outbackfest / “All of our Aussie folks, let us know your thoughts on the Psycroptic…”/ WE WERE THE KEEPERS / “In context, that’s a thrash riff…”/ BEYOND THE BLACK / “That time I cupped…that was for you…”/ “Definitely NOT a Metal Church cover…”/

“That must be the guest vocalist…”/ “I almost feel overstimulated…”

(57:25): Divine Council – 2022 / REND ASUNDER / “That may be the simplest riff they’ve played so far…”/ The Pulse of Annihilation – available 07/17/2026 / NO BLADE OF GRASS (drum playthrough video) / “He’s making it look easy…another day at the office…”/

“Is this an instrumental?”/ “A lot of times on playthroughs it’ll be the song as it is…”/

“That was a learning experience…Oh My God, was that a humbling moment…”/

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / “Hail to The Haleys…strive to be like them…”/

#untilthenext #outroreel