Review: Lycaon - cordyceps sinensis

I need to talk about this single before Royal Order comes out.

If you were around the internet looking for this single a few months ago then you know the story. If you don't I'll sum it up really quickly: Lycaon makes a very bad business decision to limit these to 500 copies in Like an Edison stores and otakus that buy anything with the word "Kuniitichiwa" muttered in it lost their math ability to reason that 500 copies of a CD can't be bought by 1000+ people. Said elitists didn't want to share their warez and butthurt people bawwed up the internet until someone leaked this. They held a tighter vagina clamp on Declaration of War and A Box in Beautiful but then Lycaon kicked them in the dick and said all three were going to be on Royal Order so the elitist whores bawwed futilely and decided to share once they realized their rarez weren't going to be so rarez anymore.

On to something a little more respectable, Cordyceps Sinensis sits between Declaration of War and A Box in Beautiful when it comes to how good these concept singles were. All three of them blow their previous work out of the water and make me a bigger fan of them now. cordyceps sinensis is a very hard, catchy song with lots of high pitched grunting mixed with a very addictive opening and reverb yelling. I actually like the pre-chorus for the alternating guitars although the regular chorus isn't that bad at all. I can't summon it in my mind at will although listening to it doesn't make my orifices bleed.

Honestly speaking I can't remember anything that they've done previous to this song that channels any of the raw energy that they put into this song. What comes closest is The 1st degree genocide holic but this trumps that song in plenty of ways. If you're looking to get into Lycaon start at Ambrozia and then skip to this because I feel chains of collar wasn't up to par. This was a definite bounce back and a nice treat from a band that can handle both hard and soft.

Final Judgment: Pretty Good.