Hypocrisy

Some bands play Death Metal. And then there’s Hypocrisy a band that has been hurling riffs from another dimension down to Earth for more than three decades.

It all started with one man: Peter Tägtgren. He recorded the first demos entirely on his own, and only when Nuclear Blast came calling did he bring in musicians to forge a real band. What followed is Swedish Metal history: from the debut “Penetralia” through classics like “The Fourth Dimension”, “Abducted” and “Virus” to the latest album “Worship”, a journey through abductions, conspiracies and cosmic horror.

The sound? Massive and dense, with catchy melodic riffs, crushing drum fills, dark lyrics and vocals that swing between every extreme. And if you think a band like this is just resting on its legacy laurels after 30 years, think again: “Worship” stormed all the way to number 16 in the German album charts. Tägtgren himself says that these days, he can write 20 riffs and not one of them makes the album. With Hypocrisy only what truly kills survives. All killer, no filler – you know the drill!

Now the Swedish mothership is touching down in the Zillertal, and every seasoned Metalhead knows: when strange lights flicker above the peaks at Full Metal Mayrhofen, those aren’t snow cannons. The aliens have arrived. And they brought riffs.