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Luludia & Demarga...
They looked for each other, they courted each other for a few weeks; then the first phone contact happened and they decided to bet everything on the Swedish band Hypocrisy.
A work written by two, with four hands; one of the two thinking (?) heads ready to speak well of it, to praise the album. The other part to tear it all apart. Paradise and Hell; black and white in the same review.
An soul divided in two, imagine that, the psychedelic sugar on one side, the crash and bark on the other. A schizophrenic wandering through the sounds, the right ear and the left ear in perpetual acoustic battle...
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It’s up to me to set the tone for the page; and I am the proudest and most metallic part of the duo, of the two-headed creature that has formed, that has been shaped from the mud.
I say Hypocrisy and I must immediately write Peter Tagtgren, the father-master of the combo originally from Ludvika in central Sweden. Born in 1990 and now with “Into the Abyss” already at the seventh studio work.
We are in April 2000 and the trio locks themselves in the Abyss Studio, here lies the mystery of the dire title chosen for the work, owned by the same Peter. They emerge after a month with an incredible album in terms of destructive sounds. Compact, disturbed, with malicious, visceral phrases, from the underworld.
Ten tracks, half of which are played at unprecedented speed. A bizarre, neurasthenic, schizoid Death Metal; a diabolic concentrate, with Peter's voice often venturing into Black Metal territories, being so stretched and torn. Supporting him in this demonstration of true madness are the reliable Michael Hedlund on bass and Lars Szoke on drums.
But it is the leader's bloodied guitar that dominates everything; blasts of primal violence as happened in the opener "Legions Descend" and the subsequent "Blinded": a mad crossroads drawing from the Brutal Death of Cannibal Corpse, from the Death’n’Roll of Entombed. A frightening force, an indescribable chaos that is replicated and amplified in the short and furious "Sodomized"...nomen omen...
Minutes of pure terror, annihilating whiplashes; steamrollers that leave no survivors, that overwhelm and set everything on fire.
But the work is not composed only of force. There are also measured moments, where one enters Gothic-Doom territories of unsurpassed beauty.
And then it is right at this point to mention the mid tempo "Fire in the Sky" placed halfway through the work to break the rhythm, to give breath to the listener disintegrated by the first songs until that point.
But it is not over because the album concludes with the even more atmospheric and decadent "Deathrow (No Regrets)": wrenching and painful Gothic-Symphonic rhythms with the voice taking on elegiac, clean, clear tones in much of the text. With a final solo of the six strings of infinite and bare beauty".
Ad Maiora...
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Fetido de marga grinder. Mal te ne incolse.
How did you dare to desecrate this harmony lair with the sounds of hell? Who are these cavrones that confuse noise science with cavernous scream, rock’n’roll freshness with the most blatant sonic obtuseness?
And then tell me, what's this story about Sweden? From there come tennis players, light wooden furniture, pale maidens who always sacrifice themselves to the rugged womanizers of Romagna. Come on, let's go, Sweden!!!
And anyway, here’s the album, with the cat looking at me wide-eyed and taking refuge under the bed at those guitar riffs.
With the little house spirits, accustomed to my sounds (suspended carousels and jumping sounds), now writhing in horror and flying frightened within a malevolent wind.
Even though it's only a moment and in the end, the chaos becomes a kind of background noise. The cat returns, the little spirits calm down. In short, nothing happened.
But maybe I’m too harsh. Here and there the mess almost pleases me, the noise instinct sometimes works. But do not fear, foul other part of me, you will not have me, you will never have me!!! Also because the final ballad is like a fantasy/horror comic strip. A sad ritual for secretaries who trust a demon after the second Mojito.
Anyway dear Swedish cavrones, a piece of advice. Keep only the obsession from this your slime. Forget the caveman ABC, forget that chant which starts as an exorcist and becomes a small exorcist. And with a neutral voice, or maybe a sinister whisper, recite the inventory of the western horrors.
Trallallà...
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 Legions Descend (03:53)
Legions of world domination
These ... with a ... of hate
Suicide me and pray for death
Armageddon
The earth, they ... away
go ...
This curse is fucking
The angels cry as they meet me
... earth will stand in flames
... is falling in
Legions of world domination
... of its burning wrath
murder ...
their god is ... you
through death we see their sign
dark again
hunting me
he says what
...
...
burning god
evil dwells
...
death, death, death is coming to them
...
the angels cry as they meet me
... earth will stand in flames
... is falling in
legions of world domination
02 Blinded (04:17)
Try to run and hide; they'll get you.
The shadows arrive
Now it's too late
Blinded by God
The hell, man, it's here
Ooh, millions scarred in vain
Time is running out
There is no way to escape
and you chose the pain
Whoa!
?? and face the dead
Ooh, nothing will be the same again
Blinded by God
The hell, man, it's here
Ooh, millions scarred in vain
Time is running out
There is no way to escape
and you chose the pain
No escape
Out of darkness
Death is here
Burn the cross
The end is here
The hell, man, it's here
Ooh, millions scarred in vain
Time is running out
There is no way to escape
and you chose the pain
03 Resurrected (05:36)
a thousand years and now i' m back again
to give the earth a way to live
my bed is ? just a take of the sky
to fool you into my tribe
you will be free
i am the devil
i will control your mind
so let me in
you fear my enter
are you creation of me
and your patience of my ?
end is near
i am the falling angel
you be aware
their escape from sacrifice
end is here
i am the king of satan
i am real
i do whatever it takes to win
to can control your life
i show you things that you will never believe
and every human will ?
you will be free
i am the devil
i will control your mind
so let me in
you fear my enter
are you creation of me
and your patience of my ?
end is near
i am the falling angel
you be aware
their escape from sacrifice
end is here
i am the king of satan
i am real
04 Unleash the Beast (03:29)
in my missions fight it is in your hands - fuck you all
i can see your head' s up your ass
the hordes of war ? and blood will come
you never see the ? when they get on
?
?
for me and the gods and rott
rotting high
i' m squeezing it
i' ll eat their guts
i' m the ?
i' ll never stop
?
like butchers ?
so you can see me removing your past
you' re deeply down in the ?
where something dies is alway pain
so making the ? from you
death will standing beside me
now i' m through with you
i' m squeezing it
i' ll eat their guts
i' m the ?
i' ll never stop
?
05 Digital Prophecy (03:07)
a new ? of violence
a new level of hate
he' s coming away
on a different level of hate
prepare for sin
radio controls your mind
the ?
i' m on your screen
lead from behind
make you right
i am your digital god
abuse generations of religion
i am your digital god
guiding a gameshow
have you the blessing of messiah
accept a new beyond
i am god
i went away
yesterday
escape with the program
they were mine
and sell the lie
now your brain is fried
i am god
radio controls your mind
the ?
i' m on your screen
lead from behind
make you right
i am your digital god
abuse generations of religion
i am your digital god
06 Fire in the Sky (04:58)
Yeah!
Like a fire in the sky, they came to earth
To put the life on the run,to hide and observe
Basic destruction and chaos
People running for their lives
Secret abduction for their research
You can scream but you can' t hide
Running from the shadow
Can I ever be free?
Struggling for my life
What do they want from me?
The invasion of your private life has only begun
Our right has been denied
There' s nowhere to run
They don' t care what you're feeling
They only do what has to be done
Running from the shadow
Can I ever be free?
Struggling for my life
What do they want from me?
Lying on a cold bed
Faces hard to see
Wake me up and take me away
so I can breathe
Running from the shadow
Can I ever be free?
Struggling for my life
What do they want from me?
Lying on a cold bed
Faces hard to see
Wake me up and take me away
so I can breathe
07 Total Eclipse (03:09)
the ?
made you right to be upon me
only be out to take their life
forever i'll be free
come to me ?
right into the sky
i'm the seprent god
it will be the final eclipse
drown in the empty
rivers are running warm
delusion ? a bubbling sun
does infect insanity
? always high
beautiful chaos day
in pain we will lie
creation of the demon sky
the god of fire is born
to come and take control
letting his wrath behind
in mortal reality
now your dead and stand before satan
hell is falling in
the daemon is of the ?
and we will take the dead
take the dead
touch the ?
right into the sky
of the serpent sun
it will be the final eclipse
?
beautiful chaos day
in pain we lie
creation of the demon sky
08 Unfold the Sorrow (04:27)
they have made you ?
you always dreamed of a normal life
but the ? has always been out on you
and taking ?
forgive me but you ain' t easy
as it hurts me more to see you lie
before you' re all dead
you must die
good-bye my love
i' m taking your life
? you from me
to slowly slip away
i' m putting your sick body to sleep
so you can have a peace of mind
good-bye my love
killing you with my bare hand
you tried to put away the ?
as i try to ?
looking at me eyes wide dead-splitted down
i'm ? the father take
to decide it's a ?
good-bye my love
i' m taking your life
? you ?
to slowly stream away
i putting of ? body
so you have a peace of mind
good-bye my love
killing you with my bare hand
10 Deathrow (No Regrets) (05:46)
Our Lord's no savior
And I ain't no saint
They will take me to the electric chair
Yeah, Ha-ha-ha
No remorse
and no regrets
All those have since
went to hell
I have my demons
You have one too
Where are you?
Closing up in your world?
Dying, you chose me
I'm here restrained
My only protectors
are your words
Dying...[etc.]
The walls are closing in
My soul is at his power
Soon, I will face my sin
Life will I see
My final days are counting
Lord, oh wash away this pain
My body's getting colder
And yes I'll, I'll submit
[2nd refrain:] And yes I'll, I'll give in
I found God
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