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Rating: In 1996, the follow-up to "The Fourth Dimension," an album that catapulted Hypocrisy to the top of the Swedish death scene, was released by Nuclear Blast.
Under the apparent monotony of themes related to the UFO world, Hypocrisy manages to express much broader and more varied content than other death metal bands: the arrival of the alien people is seen with hope, a metaphor for a possibly bright future; contact with the Stranger is also described in terms of demonic evocation, with a mix of exultation and horror; from these ideas emerge two gems like "Roswell 47" and "The Arrival Of The Demons (part 2)," slow and evocative, full of feeling, with a melodic progression unknown even to other Swedish death groups. The first is one of the group's anthems: it is a harsh attack on the system, guilty of having concealed the landing of the alien race on Earth at the famous American site of Roswell, back in 1947; the drabness of the modern town, with its UFO fraud-museums, is light-years away: the theme in Hypocrisy is only a pretext for a series of considerations that show a progressive detachment from society, from humanity. A separation that materializes in "Paradox": an epic-flavored mid-tempo on which Peter Tagtgren's vocals are layered, alternating between desperate growl and filtered, cold, distant voice, which underscores the protagonist's final alienation, forced into suicide.
The album is a successful succession of fast-paced tracks, typically death, supported by the band's notable technical skill (without any virtuosity dear to their American counterparts) and other more thought-out ones: "Buried" is Hypocrisy's "Piece By Piece"; centered on the pleasure of torturing and killing, yet it hides a deeper meaning within the context of the album, representing the suffering that the system (or the state, as it's not specified) cruelly inflicts on people, physically and mentally. "Alien" is the term around which the album's concept revolves: the descent of aliens, those from another planet, persecuted and eliminated like the "aliens" living here on Earth, the "different" ones who are mocked and blamed every day; the alienation of the individual faced with the chilling Power of some Political entity above them; the fascination/terror of man towards the Alien, the element of difference that disrupts their life.
The final triptych decidedly abandons the extreme territories, choosing rock-oriented solutions, following in the footsteps of the Pink Floyd, a passion of the singer; "Slippin' Away" brings the listener before the scene of the protagonist's suicide: Peter sings in the chorus "Bury the pain/ As I bury the knife in my body/Slowly slippin' away/ To another dimension of virtue". Detachment from life that may perhaps never materialize given the lyrics of "Drained"; the man is "drained" of all passion, of all joy, living like an automaton through the useless days he has left: he has lost.
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Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Roswell 47 (03:56)
Their freedom was taken away as they crashed to be a project of search
The experiment will make sure it won't last, all expect starlight once
The ascent alien ship was shot at because national security was in jeopardy
They say a weather balloon crashed, so we know it's bullshit
We have the right to know what really happened in
Roswell 47!
Shipping back pieces hangar, to slowly put it together
To find new weapon technology, and maybe answer our dreams forever!
The fatal afraid of spread disease, chaos and confusion
The energy physics long will be worth, the information may be worthless?
That's why we have the right to really know what happened
Roswell 47!
They picked him as the offers in play
Might try to really happen
They lost control, and crashed inRoswell... 1947!
03 Killing Art (02:56)
They got what to do to hurt
We're taking all your dead
Slayed race abandoned
Another about this
Did it
Like a mother fuckin massacre
Take the loss like a bullet
Like a bone tap crushing through your skull
The fallen desolation never leave
God can't help you now!
Jesus can't block us off
Damnation!
You'll turn back
This means war
Stuff our soul with people
Pissing on your crusifix
They will come for you
Pain crushing through you!
We're out against might
Rain down to burn
We cannot compete
Spells of world
Growing wave
Of the strike
The building up
Against God
Feel no pain
All this is the spiritual god
Of the world
Like a mother fuckin masacre
Take your loss and the bullet
Make it back because I bet you can't
The fallen desolation never leave
God can't help you now!
Jesus can't block us off
Damnation!
05 Buried (03:11)
???
Another change of flesh
You arent awake to pay for death
nothing lies..???
???
You will drown and bleed to death
One down
And more to kill
To clean up this world
To ???
???
To get the adrenalin pumping
Your remains of a broken body
Thrown in a coffin
Buried six feet under
They never see the sign of breathing
Your flesh will be decaying
Murdered, buried, forgotten
Another life destroyed
Leaving the body
For another realm
My body grows warm as I feel you await my god
Squeese the cold, pale body as I fuck it
Murdered, buried, forgotten
Another life destroyed
06 Abducted (02:50)
In 1994
Something else took control
They came to grab me into my room
as I was sleeping in my bed
They move fast
Watch over your thoughts
to doubt that it wants in
and try to stay in my brain
Suddenly I was in another room
Terrified, cannot scream, cannot move.
Paralyzed with fear
Where am I?
Is this the end?
For this is happening to me?
Some say it's the chosen one
I have been through what they like.
I knew they would come.
I must have fainted
'cuz when I woke up
They were all gone
WHAT'S GOING ON?!
Now when I look back, I remember
I could not move or scream.
the fear, lost all feeling
Will they ever leave me alone?
07 Paradox (04:33)
??? to violent ???
I tried to find my own ???
And I'll rule ???
And create a perfect race ???
The voices I here are trying to conrol me
Need to clean my mind or never survive
Suicide, the only solution
Life is to a fault for no retribution
???
But now ???
???
This is ???
Slashing my arms,
To let the blood free
Soon to get away from the pain
I have lost all I believe,
To a world of hypocrisy
Not afraid to die,
Just an empty soul, unconscious
Whats a drug to make a difference
But now I'm taking it through
Only the pain I earn,
The kind that sticks right through you
The voices are here are trying to control me
Soon to get away from the pain
I have lost all I believe,
To a world of hypocrisy
Not afraid to die,
Just an empty soul, unconscious
Whats a drug to make a difference
But now I'm taking it through
Only the pain I earn,
The kind that sticks right through you
08 Point of No Return (03:56)
Wide awake for the whole event
Never been such a plague
They will die to survive
Turn around and walk away
Walk into the fire
Watch the flames
They will die for you
'cause you were chosen
In the form of a voiceless dream
Never be afraid of death.
The immortal life can take it's toll.
You am I, as I am me.
Never trust the wise men
They will push you off the right track
And when they throw these demons before you
Just be prepared to strike back
Priests and christians
Who will know from the truth?
You will not fill your empty cup
'cause you are a god
09 When the Candle Fades (05:32)
The sky turns black
We are all a bunch of ugly ghosts
Dreams are reality just the same
Just another crucifixion
one more cross nailed to the ground
The beginning of the end
has just begun
Light's getting dark
The real pain's yet to come
Call out, the magic words
Forever chained to the flame
Another dream turned to ashes
Blessed by the dark
When the candle fades
The pain comes to an end
When the sun turns black
Release your blood, and fade away.
Blood'd never lie
You'll take your life and dwell in emptiness,
running away from the pain.
Bodies with empty souls cry to be free
But this is just the beginning of the end
The disease is catching up with you
Tortured by the past once again
The time stops, but nothing's forever
What comes after death,
It never ends
10 Carved Up (03:30)
MURDER!
My only crime was being born.
RAPING!
The only thing I really enjoy
Tie her down to bed,
Pillow on her face,
Pick up a knife and start to... CARVE!
Desperate,
she starts to wake up,
She can scream all she wants,
It just makes me stronger,
CARVE!
Suck your blood,
Withered body lying around.
Feel my cuts
I'm pulling life in alarm
becomes a reality.
Feel the pain as I peel your skin
She lying there spread wide open,
Taking her last breath on this earth.
Ripping out the infant
While I am fucking it up.
Smash its head with a hammer
Now I am fed.
No use crying cause you'll be next.
12 Slippin' Away (05:13)
Feel every things circumstantial
Realise the nonsense of existing
Start to put to an end to this lost life
There ain't no change for the better
So I'll choose it from death
Memories been bless this one day
Take the tears and the pain
My soul I sold to prolong.
Don't tell me / I'm dying
Tired of / Bury the pain
As I bury this knife in my body
Slowly Slipping Away
To another dimension of virtue
My soul now slipping away in vain
A man greets me from the other side
"Welcome To Hell"
"Me? My name's Death"
So please forgive this heart
And these dreams that we've felt
Don't tell me
Bury the pain
As I bury this knife in my body
Slowly Slipping Away
To another dimension of virtue
13 Drained (04:32)
Temple of darkness
Slipping away through pain
The fear of emptiness
Helpless, I'm being drained
Through the anger of what I have seen
My life is leading ???
Never will I be free
??? between eyes
Every other tear
Makes no difference
To ???
Through the anger of what I have seen
My life is leading ???
Never will I be free
Temple of darkness
Slipping away through pain
The fear of emptiness
Helpless, I'm being drained
Through the anger of what I have seen
My life is leading ???
Never will I be free
14 Request Denied (04:43)
(It cannot (can no) longer be denied/They can no longer deny)
The government's coverup frights your life (far to long?)
Keep your mouth shut, (of/for) what you have seen
(Or/All) (your/the) body parts (will/were) spread around
For trying to prove the missing time
For those who have seen the terror has begun
Not for the things you've been through
But the things you (know/done)
(It's on an/in an institution)
(Where you will stay for the rest of your life)
There's no therapy, justify the mind
Revealing all that of your soul
There's nothing you try to get treatment for.
REQUEST DENIED!!!
[Whispers]
[Scream]
[chorus]
The memories of (the encounters/these hours)
Will never go away
I'm (scared/scarred) for the rest of my life
15 Strange Ways (03:24)
Well, it's a strange way
The way you look at me
And it's a hard time
Time you been givin' me
Come on and open up
Open up to me
So you can realize
That I could set you free
Strange ways, twisted days
Strange ways, twisted days
Well, it's a strange place
That you've been livin' in
And it's a strange line
You've been deliverin'
I think I like it
But I'm not really sure
Don't wanna to fight it
Just wanna feel some more
Strange ways, twisted days
Strange ways, twisted days
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