Cryptic Shift

Cryptic Shift
OriginLeeds, West Yorkshire, UK
Genres
Years active2013–present
LabelsMetal Blade, Blood Harvest
MembersXander Bradley
  • Joss Farrington
  • John Riley
  • Ryan Sheperson
Past members
  • Rob Castle
  • Hokumu Blitzkreig
  • Henry Parker
  • Joe Bradley

Cryptic Shift (formerly stylized as Crÿptic Shift) is an English extreme metal band formed in Leeds, West Yorkshire in 2013. They have two EPs and two demos, with their debut album Visitations from Enceladus being released on 4 May 2020 through Blood Harvest records. In an article for The Quietus, the album was referred to as "damn near essential, and proof that [Britain] has a valid contribution to make to this new wave of progressive death metal".