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HYPOCRISY
CURRENT NAME	Hypocrisy
FORMER NAMES	Seditious
ORIGIN	Sweden
STATUS	Active
FORMED IN	1990
LABEL	Nuclear Blast
GENRE	Death metal
STYLE	Dark
LYRICAL THEME	-
BAND ADDED	2005-06-25, 00:00
LAST UPDATE	2008-02-02, 02:23

Band biography

Hypocrisy, one of the most successful Swedish death metal bands of all time, began as a solo project of Peter Tägtgren in 1990 under the name Seditious. He had then visited Florida and was inspired by the rich death metal scene that was beginning to form over there. Before leaving for Sweden again he made a promise to Phil Fasciana (Malevolent Creation) that when he returned to the US he would have with him a brutal death metal band and a record contract. Back in Sweden he focused all his energy on writing material for his soon to be band. He recorded all the songs himself but since he was not very happy with the vocals and the fact that he could not play live on his own he found Masse Broberg (ex-Votary) to handle the vocals and Mikael Hedlund to do the bass playing. They recorded a second demo which led to a long-term deal with Nuclear Blast. Soon guitarist Jonas Österberg and drummer Lars Szöke were also added to the band, both of whom had been playing with a band called Epitaph in the US. Hypocrisy played their first ever live gig on June 6th, 1992. With the release of their debut album "Penetralia" in October 1992 a long and prosperous (not moneywise of course...) career began.

Current members Add - Fetch
Reidar Horghagen	2004-	Drums	See also Grimfist, Immortal, Pain
Mikael Hedlund	1991-	Bass	See also Abyss, The, War
Peter Tägtgren	1990-	Guitars, keyboards, vocals	See also Abyss, The, Algaion, Pain

Former members Add - Fetch
Lars Szöke	1991-2004	Drums	See also Abyss, The, Epitaph, War
Jonas Österberg	-1992-	Guitars	See also Epitaph
Magnus Broberg	1992-1993	Vocals	See also Dark Funeral, Demonoid, Dominion Caligula, God Among Insects, Sportlov

Session musicians Add - Fetch
Andreas Holma		Guitars	On tour 2002-.
Mathias Kamijo		Guitars	On tour 1996-2001. See also Abemal, Abyss, The, Algaion, Morifade, N.C.O., Pain

Buy Hypocrisy albums

Official releases Add
1991	Hypocrisy	No label
1992	Penetralia 7.5 / 10 Read our review here	Nuclear Blast
1993	Pleasure Of Molestation	Nuclear Blast
1993	Osculum Obscenum	Nuclear Blast
1994	Inferior Devoties	Nuclear Blast
1994	The Fourth Dimension	Nuclear Blast
1996	Abducted	Nuclear Blast
1996	Carved Up	Nuclear Blast
1996	Maximum Abduction	Nuclear Blast
1997	The Final Chapter	Nuclear Blast
1999	Hypocrisy Destroys Wacken (live)	Nuclear Blast
1999	Hypocrisy	Nuclear Blast
2000	Into The Abyss 8.5 / 10 Read our review here	Nuclear Blast
2001	10 Years Of Chaos And Confusion (comp.) 9 / 10 Read our review here	Nuclear Blast
2002	Catch 22 6 / 10 Read our review here	Nuclear Blast
2004	The Arrival 9.5 / 10 Read our review here	Nuclear Blast
2005	Virus 9 / 10 Read our review here	Nuclear Blast

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