La genesi dell'omonimo sesto lavoro degli svedesi Hypocrisy inizia due anni prima, nel 1997. E' l'anno di "The Final Chapter" ed il suo poco rassicurante titolo sembra far presagire l'imminente fine della band. Peter Tagtgren, leader e fondatore della band, vuole proseguire la propria carriera musicale concentrandosi in particolare sul progetto Techno-Industrial dei Pain e sulle ottime capacità di produttore. Suoi gli studi di registrazione The Abyss, messi in piedi nel 1995, dove si è già distinto per aver lavorato con band del calibro di Therion, Marduk, Dark Funeral.
Ed invece nel Giugno del 1999, in maniera del tutto non preventivata, il ritorno degli Hypocrisy è cosa certa. Un lavoro tra i migliori mai messi in piedi dalla band; prodotto e registrato ovviamente dalle sapienti e totalitarie mani di Peter. L'unica nota negativa, cosa da me riferita in molte altre circostanze, è l'affidarsi ancora una volta alla casa discografica tedesca Nuclear Blast che nella seconda metà degli anni novanta ha scelto di virare verso dei suoni più chiari, con una produzione per lunghi tratti cristallina se non addirittura troppo pulita. Peter è costretto ad adeguarsi a ciò anche perchè il risultato finale delle vendite è di tutto rispetto.
L'album è il più atmosferico, epico di quelli fin a questo momento registrato dalla band; molti brani contengono ariose e fascinose partiture sinfoniche, di ampissimo respiro come mai era avvenuto nel passato recente e più remoto. Anche la voce di Peter, come avviene ad esempio nei sei minuti di "Until The End", si sviluppa in maniera pulita, sorretto da lunghe trame musicali avvolgenti, con un crescendo strumentale di raggelante e fulgida bellezza.
In un paio di occasioni si ricordano ancora di essere una band Death Metal: "Apocalyptic Hybrid" e "Time Warp" sono due terrifcanti scudisciate suonate con una furia ed un impeto degna delle prime pubblicazioni. Velocità debordante, riff di chitarra semplici ma dall'impatto rovinoso; una sezione ritmica graffiante, granitica, imponente. E qui la voce di Peter riassume quelle sembianze growl che lo hanno reso uno dei migliori cantanti di sempre di un genere musicale. Urla strappate, corde vocali tiratissime ad un passo dalla straziante rottura. Impressionante dimostrazione di bestiale e primigenia forza.
Il brano migliore è il decimo della raccolta; "Paled Empty Sphere". Dimenticatevi quanto ho appena scritto nel paragrafo precedente; qui le atmosfere si fanno sempre più rarefatte, oniriche, languide. Passaggi acustici, fraseggi dal sapore addirittura Psichedelico, la voce assume contorni inimmaginabili per una band così estrema. L'assolo di chitarra di Peter sfiora lidi di Pinkfloydiana memoria...non esagero credetemi.
Album dal massimo dei voti per me.
Diabolos Rising 666.
Elenco tracce e testi
02 Time Warp (03:51)
Drifting empty outer space.
Looking for euphoric end.
Searching for the perfect end.
Running for you useless.
They'll try to break your empty mind.
Leaving all your crew behind.
Coming to reality.
You're sucked into the time warp.
Burning, without the use of fire.
Your emotions getting higher.
Can you take it anymore?
Really enough to keep you down.
Your life has just begun.
Will this ever end?
Coming to reality.
You're sucked into time warp!!!
Digging up the missiles from your silo line.
Computer images from the bomb inside.
Project system turning for a burning flesh.
Everything is dead.
Try to end this like you choose it.
But you will always always always ??? to never get away.
Burning for a hole inside.
You know they've got the further way.
Will this ever end?
Coming to reality.
You're sucked into the time warp!
Here we go!
04 Disconnected Magnetic Corridors (05:24)
Breaking down the surface in the night.
It's like running around the evasive ground.
It can't be done.
For the first time I tried to really try.
It's not easy for a blind man, to see the Sun.
I've seen the future and the end is here.
Please forgive me, 'cause I've been there.
Seas ran by and by and far and wide.
It's easy to see right through your fingers and hide.
Fighting for the freedom nowhere found.
Feeling old, too old to fight.
Running around the circles in the night.
How you're supposed to keep it all inside?
I've seen the future and the end is near.
Please forgive me, 'cause I've been there.
It's not too ? left for us to breathe.
That's my story.
The end is closing in.
Seas ran by and by and far and wide.
It's easy to see right through your fingers and hide.
Seas ran by and by and far and wide.
It's easy to see right through your fingers and hide.
Breathing as my body dies to get by.
The light behind the cracks of glass is so bright.
05 Apocalyptic Hybrid (04:04)
Did you want to
Did you want to see that nothing can't be done.
Killing
From here.
Will we fucking die?
The end is near!!!
Stay for the
Everything is
Death is here!
The end is here!
Death is here!
The end is here!
Ahh!
Do you wanna die?
I don't wanna die.
We will all die.
Do you wanna die?
I don't wanna die.
We will all die.
We'll soon know what it's like to die.
They are witnessing my creation.
They take my fucking life.
I don't wanna die.
Burning flesh is lighting up the sky.
Yeah!!!
Learning on the edge, to take it from myself.
I'll take my last breath.
It will be the end!!!
Do you wanna die?
I don't wanna die.
We will all die.
Do you wanna die?
I don't wanna die.
We will die.
Damnation!
The end is here.
Damnation!
The end is here
06 Selfinflicted Overload (04:39)
I've been bred.
As humans fill the Earth, they'll destroy and divide!
ripping from my head.
Their terror never ends.
And when I see my face in the mirror.
I just wanna save my life!
Do you hunger for life?
I'm taking life.
I won't get 'em all.
It's haunting me.
Just leave me alone.
Self inflicted overload.
I'm loosing grip in time.
But do you want to be alive?
Self inflicted overload.
To feed me kept alive.
But you want to be alive?
Ahh!
Time will tell.
In the of my side.
I thought I saw my future, but it was
Do you hunger for life?
I'm taking life.
I won't get 'em all.
I may never
It's closing in.
I don't have a choice.
Self inflicted overload.
I'm loosing grip in time.
But do you want to be alive?
Self inflicted overload.
To feed me kept alive.
But you want to be alive!
Self inflicted overload.
I'm loosing grip in time.
But you want to be alive?
Self inflicted overload.
To feed me kept alive.
But you want to be alive!
You won't
10 Fractured Millennium (05:14)
Yeah!!!
I came from second Universe.
I've travelled far.
I'm a god, I'm not pleased.
Is this the way you're supposed to be?
You're free from the game.
Doesn't anyone care anymore?
Killing your own world.
There's nothing to stop you.
Can't you see what you're doing?
Its got an end, or nothing will be left!
Dying... planet!!!
Mother Nature bleeding, She will die.
Burning... planet!
Burning lives and torching wilderness.
I'm screaming out inside.
But there's no one around.
Raping people ???, but you won't quit.
No!
Ready to strike back.
Ready for death.
Armageddon waits near.
Do the rules of this ???
You gotta go on 'til you die.
We're entering an Age of Money.
Power is all you breed.
Praying to god who don't exist.
Can't you see what you're doing?
Its gotta end, or nothing will be there!
Dying... planet!!!
Mother Nature bleeding, She will die.
Burning... planet!
Burning lives and torching wilderness.
13 Paled Empty Sphere (06:15)
I can feel the sorrow build inside my mind.
The purpose exists at the price I had to pay.
Freedom!
Freedom!
Is this the life I had to live?
I pretend there's nothing to complain about.
Am I lost in the circle that can't be broken?
Or is this just a pale empty dream?
The vault is closing in and I can't breathe.
It feels like I'm under water, and I can't swim.
Freedom!
Freedom!
Is this the life I had to live?
I pretend there's nothing to complain about.
Am I lost in the circle that can't be broken?
Or is this just a pale empty dream?
Is this the life I had to live?
I pretend there's nothing to complain about.
Am I lost in the circle that can't be broken?
Or is this just a pale empty dream?
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