Nel 1996 esce per la Nuclear Blast il seguito di "The Fourth Dimension", album che aveva proiettato gli hypocrisy ai vertici del death svedese.
Sotto l'apparente monotonia di tematiche legate al mondo degli UFO gli Hypocrisy riescono invece ad esprimere contenuti molto più ampi e variegati delle altre band death metal: l'arrivo del popolo alieno è visto con speranza, metafora di un avvenire forse luminoso; il contatto con lo Straniero è descritto anche in termini di evocazione demonica, con un misto di esaltazione e orrore; da queste idee nascono due perle come "Roswell 47" e "The Arrival Of The Demons (part 2)", lente ed evocative, piene di feeling con una progressione melodica sconosciuta anche ad altri gruppi death svedesi. La prima è uno degli inni del gruppo: è un duro attacco al sistema, reo di avere occultato lo sbarco della razza aliena sulla terra nel celebre sito americano di Roswell, nel lontano 1947; lo squallore della moderna cittadina, con i suoi musei- truffa sugli UFO è distante anni-luce: il tema negli Hypocrisy è solo spunto per una serie di considerazioni che mostrano un distacco progressivo dalla società, dall'umanità. Allontanamento che si concretizzerà in "Paradox": un mid- tempo dal sapore epico su cui si innestano le vocals di Peter Tagtreen, che si alternano tra growl disperato e voce filtrata, fredda e distante, che sottolinea l'alienazione finale del protagonista, costretto al suicidio.
Il disco è un susseguirsi riuscito di pezzi veloci, tipicamente death, supportati dalla notevole perizia tecnica dei componenti (senza alcun virtuosismo caro ai colleghi americani) e altri più ragionati: "Buried" è la "Piece By Piece" degli Hypocrisy; incentrata sul piacere di torturare e uccidere, nasconde però un significato più profondo inserito nel contesto dell'album, rappresenta le sofferenze che il sistema (o lo stato, non viene detto) con crudeltà infligge agli uomini, fisicamente e mentalmente. "Alieno" è il termine attorno cui ruota il concept dell'album: la discesa degli alieni, quelli provenienti da un altro pianeta, perseguitati ed eliminati come gli "alieni" che vivono qui sulla terra, i "diversi" che sono derisi e colpevolizzati ogni giorno; l'alienazione dell'individuo di fronte all'agghiacciante Potere di qualche entità Politica sopra di lui; il fascino/terrore dell'uomo per l'Alieno, l'elemento di diversità che sconvolge la sua vita.
Il trittico finale abbandona decisamente i territori estremi, scegliendo soluzioni rock-oriented, sulle orme dei Pink Floyd, passione del cantante; "Slippin' Away" porta l'ascoltatore d fronte alla scena del suicidio del protagonista: Peter canta nel ritornello "Bury the pain/ As I bury the knife in my body/Slowly slippin' away/ To another dimension of virtue". Distacco dalla vita che forse non si concretizzerà mai visto il testo di "Drained"; l'uomo è "svuotato" di ogni passione, di ogni gioia, vivendo come un automa i giorni inutili che gli rimangono: ha perso.
Da AVERE
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
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
Carico i commenti... con calma
