Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy live in Glasgow , Scotland (2006)
General information
Genre (s)	Death metal
founding	October 1991 (as Seditious) 1991/92 (renamed Hypocrisy)
Website	http://www.hypocrisy.cc/
Founding members
Guttural singing	Masse Broberg (until 1994)
Electric guitar	Peter Tagtgren
bass	Mikael Hedlund
Drums	Lars Szöke (until 2004)
Current occupation
Guttural vocals, guitar, studio keyboard	Peter Tagtgren (guttural singing: since 1994)
bass	Mikael Hedlund
Drums	Reidar "Horgh" Horghagen (since 2004)
former members
Electric guitar	Jonas Osterberg (1992–1994)
Electric guitar	Andreas Holma (live guitar: 2000–2004, guitar: 2004–2006)
Live support
guitar	Mathias Kamijo (live guitar: 1996–2000)
guitar	Gary Holt (studio guitar: 2005; 1 song)
guitar	Klas Ideberg (Tour guitar: 2006)
guitar	Tomas Elofsson (live guitar: since 2010)
bass	André Skaug (tour bass: 2013 European tour for Mikael Hedlund)

Hypocrisy (English " hypocrisy ") is a death metal band from Stockholm , Sweden, founded in 1991 by Peter Tägtgren under the name Seditious .

history

Beginnings and first albums (1991–1994)

Peter Tagtgren founded Seditious in October 1991 as a solo project. After Tagtgren had recorded the demo Rest in Pain and was dissatisfied with his singing, a second version was created under the new name Hypocrisy. In addition to drummer Lars Szöke (with whom he had previously played in the band Conquest), bassist Mikael Hedlund and epitaphvotary vocalist Masse Broberg joined Tägegren. The band got a record deal with the young label Nuclear Blast , which released the debut album Penetralia in 1992. The following year Relapse Records released the EP Pleasure of Molestation . In October 1993, Nuclear Blast released the second Hypocrisy album Osculum Obscenum . This was followed by a tour in which Hypocrisy played with Deicide and Cannibal Corpse , among others . Broberg apparently suffered a breakdown and had to be replaced on vocals by Tägtgren. Broberg later became the singer of Dark Funeral , where he performed under the name Emperor Magus Caligula.

After the live performances, Tägegren, Hedlund and Szöke continued the band as a trio and released the EP Inferior Devoties with new recordings of older pieces as well as the Slayer cover version Black Magic , which also appeared on the tribute album Slatanic Slaughter .

The classic phase (1994–1997)

In 1994 the album The Fourth Dimension followed . To promote the album, Hypocrisy toured in 1995 among others in Mexico and Portugal. The EP Maximum Abduction was also released , with the CD roughly shaped like a headless, plucked chicken. 1996 appeared the next album Abducted and the song Roswell '47 as Split - Single with Meshuggah . In addition, Tägegren, Hedlund and Szöke were active in the black metal project The Abyss . Mathias Kamijo, who was active there and with Tägtgren's other band Pain , became Hypocrisy's second live guitarist. Tägegren, Hedlund and Szöke also played with the black metal project War at different times .

Originally, Peter Tägegren wanted to break up the band after the 1997 album The Final Chapter in order to be able to concentrate on Pain, but due to the positive reaction to the album he decided to let the band continue.

After the final chapter (from 1997)

Singer Peter Tägegren at the Metalcamp 2007

The performance at the Schleswig-Holstein Wacken Open Air in 1998 was recorded in sound and image for a live release. These recordings were released in 1999 on CD and VHS under the title Hypocrisy Destroys Wacken . The studio album Hypocrisy was also created in the same year . After a few appearances at festivals in the summer, the band played in Europe in September with The Kovenant , Gardenian , Dismal Euphony and Disbelief . The album Into the Abyss followed in August 2000 . With the live guitarist Andreas Holma from Scattered Corpsesvader, Catastrophic, Deströyer 666 , Immortal , Disbelief, Malevolent Creation and Obscenity, the band went on the European no-mercy festival tour in March and April 2002 to promote the album Catch 22 . In 2004 the album The Arrival was released . Lars Szöke left the band; According to Tägegren, he stopped developing and was poorly motivated. He was replaced by Reidar "Horgh" Horghagen from Immortal, who had supported Tägtgren with Pain. Horgh later left Grimfist as Hypocrisy became a priority for him. In 2005 the album Virus was released . In 2006 guitarist Andreas Holma left the band due to a lack of motivation. He was replaced by Klas Ideberg ( Darkane ), who played live for the band for a short time.

In 2009 the album A Taste of Extreme Divinity was released , which again contained more faster and heavier pieces.

After a four-year break from live, the band was back live in 2010.

At the end of 2011 the band began working on the 13th studio album and played at some festivals in 2012, such as the Metalfest . The album was released under the name End of Disclosure on March 22, 2013 in the EU and on April 2, 2013 in North America.

Music style and lyrics

The first Hypocrisy tracks were exclusively influenced by Thrash Metal , which, along with Kiss, was the most important influence in Tägegren's youth. The debut album Penetralia is based on Florida Death Metal with chaotic guitar playing and blasphemous lyrics. With the successor Osculum Obscenum , for which Peter Tägtgren again acted as the sole studio guitarist, the band increasingly developed their own style, which, however, partly exchanged the melodies of the debut album for borrowings from Black Metal and Doom Metal . The album also included a cover version of the song Black Metal by Venom .

With The Fourth Dimension , the band moved away from satanic content and replaced the “sawing” riffs with more melancholy chord patterns. The band also used keyboards prominently for the first time. Roswell '47 from the album Abducted , one of the band's best-known titles, deals with the alleged UFO crash of Roswell in 1947. In a sense, Hypocrisy developed an " alien " image with this album , especially since the album title (Entführung, Engl .: Abduction ) and the cover had references to the UFO phenomenon (see kidnapping by aliens ).

After the more atmospheric Hypocrisy , instead of the atmospheric passages , Catch 22 showed more punk influences and a completely different side of the band through a deliberately raw production. The 2004 album The Arrival brought back the keyboard atmosphere, but was also very varied and borrowed from its predecessor from Thrash Metal.

End of Disclosure is more catchy and more Thrash-heavy again. In contrast to The Final Chapter , the title does not represent a planned dissolution; instead it is “about the extent to which official bodies tell the truth when it comes to UFOs or secret projects. And most importantly, at what point they stop. ”Tägtgren goes back to conspiracy theories ; the theme song revolves around secret cities underground that have been built for the self-proclaimed elite since the 1940s; Globalization , the EU etc. are part of plans for a world government; UFOs and global warming are only threat scenarios. However, Tagtgren emphasizes that he “only wants to point out that not everything is always as we believe”. Such lines of thought led to a deeper understanding. He himself assigned the texts to a gray area between fiction and reality.

Band members

• Hypocrisy live at the Rockharz 2019
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  Singer and guitarist Peter Tägtgren

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  Bass player Mikael Hedlund

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  Drummer Reidar Horghagen

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  Live guitarist Tomas Elofsson

Discography

Albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	SE
1992	Penetralia Nuclear Blast	-	-	-	-	First published: October 5, 1992
1993	Osculum Obscenum Nuclear Blast	-	-	-	-	First published: October 12, 1993
1994	The Fourth Dimension Nuclear Blast	-	-	-	-	First published: October 25, 1994
1996	Abducted Nuclear Blast	-	-	-	-	First published: February 13, 1996
1997	The Final Chapter Nuclear Blast	-	-	-	-	First published: November 11, 1997
1999	Hypocrisy Nuclear Blast	DE85 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	First published: June 22, 1999
2000	Into the Abyss Nuclear Blast	DE64 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	First published: May 22, 2000
2002	Catch 22 Nuclear Blast	DE78 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	First release: March 19, 2002 Republication : May 9, 2008 as Catch 22 VW.0.08
2004	The Arrival Nuclear Blast	-	AT71 (1 week) AT	-	-	First published: February 16, 2004
2005	Virus Nuclear Blast	DE76 (1 week) DE	AT75 (1 week) AT	-	SE58 (1 week) SE	First published: September 5, 2005
2009	A Taste of Extreme Divinity Nuclear Blast	DE62 (1 week) DE	AT66 (1 week) AT	-	-	First published: October 23, 2009
2013	End of Disclosure Nuclear Blast	DE35 (1 week) DE	AT56 (1 week) AT	CH53 (1 week) CH	SE29 (3 weeks) SE	First published: March 22, 2013

Others

• 1993: Pleasure of Molestation (EP)
• 1994: Inferior Devoties (EP)
• 1995: Maximum Abduction (EP)
• 1999: Hypocrisy Destroys Wacken (live album)
• 2001: Rest in Pain (Bonus CD)
• 2001: 10 Years of Chaos and Confusion (Best-of)
• 2011: Hell over Sofia (live album)

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Biography. Hypocrisy, accessed May 6, 2013 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Robert Müller: Hypocrisy . End of the announcement? . In: Metal Hammer , April 2013, p. 63.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Almaron: Hypocrisy. DeadFall Radio & eZine, August 28, 2004, archived from the original on November 8, 2004 ; accessed on May 6, 2013 . 
4. ^ Hypocrisy - About , accessed April 3, 2013.

Web links

Commons : Hypocrisy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Hypocrisy on MusicBrainz (English)
• Chart sources: DE / AT / CH / SE