“It’s my older, wiser self telling off my younger self for screwing up so much crap for so long and screwing up both our lives.” Says former Type O Negative guitarist Kenny Hickey.
With a soft, acoustic intro jolting into heavy-hitting guitar riffs and face-melting vocals, the song centers around the mantra, “And into your arms, I commend my life. And after your death, I take back what’s mine.” It is a perfect embodiment of what makes EYE AM truly spectacular – their ability to create classic sounds in new and innovative ways that express their love of classic rock and roll and metal.
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“CRYPTOMNESIA is the foundation to the house we are building” – Andrew Spaulding, founder, Corpse Paint Records
“I think we’re finding our sound as we go. And this is sounding more like EYE AM.” -Todd Strange, bassist, EYE AM
“The creative part is the fun part, that’s been the fun part. It’s become the song, to me, that identifies EYE AM. We’re still finding ourselves, and it seems like this is where we are meant to be.” – Johnny Kelly, drummer/vocalist, EYE AM
“We wanted to give more of an unpolished feel… we all grew up on 70s music, so we wanted them to sound more analog, we wanted to sound more like that era.” -Vinny Labella, co-producer, EYE AM
“I really think Cryptomnesia is a perfect example of a new Band finding it’s own style and sound. I love Dreams Always Die With The Sun, but we had a lot more time putting together Cryptomnesia, and the end result is awesome!!! The song is very hypnotic to me. I never get tired of hearing it, and that’s a great thing!!!” – Kirk Windstein
“I feel that Cryptomnesia is ambitious and really widens the pallet for EYE AM moving forward. It wasn’t designed with that in mind it just sort of grew from a central riff like any other song, but then just spread outward-eventually incorporating acoustic guitars, multiple lead guitar breaks and key changes. I think it came out quite powerful and we’re really proud of it. Now we’ve seem to have set a pretty high standard for ourselves and I feel like we’re going to have to not just maintain it but keep pushing the envelope to see where it leads us. Discovering new sounds and taking risks go hand in hand. Sometimes it works and sometimes it hits the wall but it’s always more interesting than taking the obvious route.” – Kenny Hickey
Kenny Hickey adds, “I don’t want our music to be one dimensional. I don’t want it to be just dark and doomy or always heavy I want it to be both light and dark and dynamic and I think Cryptomnesia really captures all of that. I really love the way it moves freely between opposing movements of heavy guitars and sudden melodic key changes and even acoustic segments. It’s a moody song and it goes a lot of places in the 5 minutes or so it takes to play out. It feels more like a trip than a song to me. I don’t get tired of listening to it.”
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