Hypocrisy

The great experiment...Ballad death suicidal music from hell

Review Score:

(10/10)
I have to hand it to Peter, he had balls to make this album. Where past Hypocrisy albums, subtly used elements outside of death metal, here we see Hypocrisy making the full swan-dive into its influences, forgoing most of its traditional death metal approach. Songs are VERY different from one another, often using thrash, punk, doom, heavy metal, and a unique form of deathy atmospheric rock that has never been tried before. Peter overdubs his vocals using 5 of 6 techniques including screams, croons, and chants along with his tradmark growls. The theme of the album is pretty much Peters miserable state of mind and I would describe this as extremely depressing atmospheric death rock. At times its overdramatic and probably more popular with female metallers (kinda like how Megadeths cowntdown to extinction gave Mustain alot of female fans). I support this album for two reasons. One, because at least Hypocrisy admit what theyre influnced by, and two, because they took a chance and were brave enough to experiment. Underground metal rarely experiments anymore and when they do, they are ridiculed. Sadly, due to fan criticism, Hypocrisy abandoned this sound after this release. It would seem that they were not brave enough.

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