With governments finally admitting that UFOs do in fact exist, and humanity
attempting to heal from a state of recent crisis, the timing couldn’t
be more appropriate for the newest addition to the HYPOCRISY catalog:
WORSHIP, due to be released Fall 2021 via Nuclear Blast Records. Aptly
titled, the album cover shows a mass of humans reaching up mindlessly to
the sky as glowing spaceships shaped like the HYPOCRISY crosses sigil
beam down to descend upon earthen civilizations and Mayan temples.
Designed by artist Blake Armstrong (Kataklysm, In Flames, Carnifex, etc.),
WORSHIP’s artwork speaks to the history of the relationship between humanity
and extraterrestrials. “They’re coming back to collect,” explains
founder and HYPOCRISY mastermind Peter T?gtgren.
A track entitled CHEMICAL WHORE breaches the subject of pharmaceutical
addiction, and those who engineer it. “We are all chemical whores.
We regularly consume prescriptions and drugs because we think we need
it; we use one pill to heal the damage done by another medicine... it’s a
vicious cycle.” Musically, it’s the only song that was written by all 3 core
members of the band and translates into a recognizable, mid-tempo HYPOCRISY
sound much like ERASER or FRACTURED MILLENIUM. Traveling
from Sweden to Russia, the band also shot an official music video for
CHEMICAL WHORE.
The DEAD WORLD music was written by Peter T?gtgren’s son, Sebastian.
“We actually started to write an album together, something like 11 or 12
songs, but we never put any vocals in there and we just sort of set it aside.
Then when I started writing HYPOCRISY I realized I really liked the song…
it feels fresh. I think my kid got some new blood in there.” While the song
comes equipped with a modern feel, the writing is still old fashioned at its
core. Going into detail about the illuminati and black ops government, the
lyrics examine how miserable these figureheads and theories can make us.
“Call it fantasy, call it sci-fi, there are plenty of conspiracies in the world but
I find these ones interesting,” explains T?gtgren.
GREEDY BASTARDS is another track outlined by simplicity and catchiness.
Chugging riffs encapsulate a sound that almost verges on the realms of
thrash while still keeping its feet firmly planted in the world of death metal.
The lyrics touch on the greed and methods of control that we see various
governments around the world today; how they manipulate people
against one another and abuse the masses.
For T?gtgren, the inspiration to write new HYPOCRISY comes in waves. “I
believe we were out on tour for another project and I began to get hungry
again. I started spitting out some new riffs and when I had 7-8 songs done,
I invited the rest of the guys to join me and contribute, and from there we
started putting everything together. We had a break for a few months,
continued recording, went back on tour… it never stops. There was a lot
of jumping back and forth, and then COVID came and things got really
weird.”
T?gtgren was one of the many musically inclined who was forced into
sudden isolation upon the onset of COVID 19, only for T?gtgren, this is
common practice when creating new songs. “A lot of things in the world
stopped, and it was time to finish everything I hadn’t finished.” As usual,
all recording and mixing took place at T?gtgren’s home studio in Sweden.
It has been 8 long years since the last record, and HYPOCRISY fans can
feel the itch. WORSHIP is 11 tracks of precise, ferocious musicianship.
Commonly inspired by the fusion of the modern and the ancient, HYPOCRISY
has once more found a way to combine innovative ideas with classic
sound in order to deliver something metalheads can enjoyably consume
with awe and brutal vigor. HYPOCRISY is Peter T?gtgren (Lead Guitar &
Vocals), Mikael Hedlund (Bass Guitar), and Reidar “Horgh” Horghagen
(Drums).
01. Worship
02. Chemical Whore
03. Greedy Bastards
04. Dead World
05. We’re The Walking Dead
06. Brotherhood Of The Serpent
07. Children Of The Gray
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