Death ’til Death – Day 6: Hypocrisy

When I originally came up with a list for the Death ’til Death feature, I wanted to include at least one Melodic Death Metal band. Since then, I’ve written down a few that I’ve considered for this place and crossed them out again. Amon Amarth were considered, because of how big they are nowadays and by getting more fans, they might lead them to more Death Metal. But I decided not to go with them. In Flames were also considered, because they were one of the first Melodic Death Metal bands around and released some of the most groundbreaking work of the genre. I didn’t go with them because of their recent output. At The Gates were next to not be featured, because even though they released some of the most archetypal Melo Death, they mostly inspired upcoming Metalcore bands. And this is not a feature about Metalcore. So who else could be featured on Day 6? Fucking Hypocrisy. Why? Well, because they own and released some of the best Melodic Death Metal ever.

In the late 80’s, Peter Tägtgren lived in Florida for three years — where he was active in the rising Death Metal scene, and played with people like Malevolent Creation’s Phil Fasciana. He returned to Sweden in 1990 and formed Hypocrisy. They released their debut album Penetralia in 1992, with Masse Broberg (later Dark Funeral vocalist) on vocals. They released one more album with Broberg, until Tägtgren took over vocal duties.

With the change in vocal position, Hypocrisy also started to change musically and lyrically. While their earlier output was executed well, it wasn’t very innovative. That changed with their next album Fourth Dimension, and even more so with their classic Abducted. The band shifted from Death Metal, to atmospheric Melodic Death Metal. Lyrically Tägtgren didn’t sing much about usual Death Metal themes, but his lyrics mostly dealt with extraterrestrial and paranormal topics.

Mainman Peter Tägtgren is not only the guitarist, vocalist and producer of Hypocrisy, but also of his side-project Pain. He also produced the likes of Dark Funeral, Marduk, Dimmu Borgir, Amon Amarth, Immortal, Children Of Bodom, Shining and Sabaton. As if that wasn’t enough, Tägtgren not only owns a recording studio in Pärlby, but also the entire village it’s placed in. That’s right, Peter Tägtgren owns a village.

After the critical flop of Catch 22 in 2002, when Hypocrisy flirted with Nu-Metal, they made an impressive return with Virus and the massively underrated A Taste Of Extreme Divinity. The band is now, maybe more than ever before, one of the most respected Extreme Metal bands. Deservingly so.

Hypocrisy – Buried

Death ’til Death introduction – Day 1: Death – Day 2: Possessed – Day 3: Morbid Angel
Day 4: Cannibal Corpse – Day 5: Nile – Day 6: Hypocrisy – Day 7: Obituary

Lemmy is honest about his looks

Lemmy is not the most handsome guy in the world, but his moles have been licked by more women than I have masturbated to, so I give the guy a lot of credit.

In a recent interview with Daily Record, Lemmy said women are not as keen on sleeping with them as they once were…

“Women don’t go to extreme lengths to get at Motorhead no more. We’re too ugly and old. […] Gene Simmons of Kiss slept with 5000 and took pictures of them all and put them on his fridge I didn’t take pictures of all of mine because I started before there was Polaroids.”

Read full article here.

Haha, this guy would make a fortune writing one-liners for t-shirts. 1,000 women, imagine that. I only slept with about 800, so I’m behind Lemmy, but getting there.

Keep up the good work, Lem. Get to that 2,000 number.

Amy Lee fell. Dose of Metal laughed.

Amy Lee tripped and fell down at an Evanescence gig in New York. This is exactly why women need to stay in the kitchen.

You can watch the incident in the video above, at around 3:40.

To be fair to her, not only did she trip on the floor mat, but she also kept going like a pro. So kudos to her, I just can’t help it when I see the opportunity for a few sexist jokes.

Trivium go acoustic again

Trivium go acoustic again, and they want you to hear them do an acoustic rendition of their ‘Built To Fall’ song, so I’ll be damned if I’m not gonna embed it here and force you to do so.

The original song has a video which has been released a few days ago, and you can read my amazing comments on it right here. You can also read Mark’s review of their latest album here. We’ve covered this band more than we should have, apparently.

Anyway, my opinion on this acoustic song is: I have no opinion, cause I haven’t listened to it.

But hey, you go ahead!

GWAR gwo on as if nothing happened

GWAR lost a band member, but let’s not get that in the way of touring… I mean, careers first, right?

Let’s see what GWAR‘s frontmonster has to say about this:

“As the singer of GWAR and one of his best friends, I feel it is my duty to try and answer some of the questions that surround his tragic and untimely death. I know the sense of loss and pain is far greater in scope than in the insulated environment of a band on tour, and I will do my best to provide what clarity and comfort I can.“

Singer, eh? Someone’s a bit full of himself… Anyway, moving on:

“As we work our way through these difficult days the question is — what will GWAR do? After a lot of consideration, we have decided to carry on with the tour. Although the great temptation would be to return home, curl into a fetal position, and mourn, we can’t do that. First off, Cory wouldn’t want that. He would want us to go on and would be pissed if we didn’t. Plus we know the fans don’t want us to quit. They are going to want a chance to come to grips with their loss, and there is no better place to do that than at a GWAR show. Though it’s hard to believe, I think we all would feel a lot worse if we stopped.”

Read full article here.

Okay, here’s what I think. I think this is strictly a business decision, and this guy is trying to cover it up. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think a band should just stop because of a tragedy like this, and I do agree that almost no musician who passed away would ever want for his life’s work to just stop because of him. So I understand that bands need to go on.

But something about just continuing with a tour in times like these just doesn’t sit well with me. Not that I think canceled dates are a good idea, since a lot of fans might be annoyed, but I don’t know, take a few months off, pay your respect, bury him, then go on.

Not trying to be an asshole about it, but it feels like they said ‘What’s done is done, let’s just keep getting paid!’

I am in no way trying to say that the members of GWAR are not feeling sad or anything, I’m actually pretty sure this is probably not their decision. But the whole thing reeks of disrespect to me, so I won’t buy their excuses.

People used to laugh at Slipknot for taking so long to ‘move on,’ but they look pretty good right about now.