HYPOCRISY | announce first chapter of re-issues + launch pre-order

17th March 2023 0 By Jon Deaux

In November 2021, death metal titans HYPOCRISY released their 13th studio album Worship to massive acclaim from fans and media, ending up in the top ranks of many of the year’s poll lists and scoring some of their highest chart results to date. Promoted on the band’s most extensive live cycle in a long time, tracks like ‘Chemical Whore’ and ‘Children of the Gray’ were well received, alongside classic tracks such as ‘Roswell 47’, ‘Inferior Devoties’, ‘Fractured Millennium’ and ‘Eraser’. During this extensive run HYPOCRISY toured the States, performed at festivals like Wacken (DE), Summer Breeze (DE), Maryland Deathfest (US), and Alcatraz (BE) to name but a few played a highly successful European tour and finished 2022 with an unforgettable trip to South America before launching 2023 aboard the 70000 Tons of Metal cruise. But now, HYPOCRISY and Nuclear Blast Records will launch the first, and definitely not the final chapter of a catalog campaign bringing back all their legendary past records, some of which are many sought-after rarities.

“Chapter One” begins with classy vinyl and CD editions of Penetralia (1992), Osculum Obscenum (1993), The Fourth Dimension (1994), and Abducted (1996) on May 5th, 2023. Documenting their evolution from the violent and utterly morbid Masse Broberg fronted first two records, the much-revered opus The Fourth Dimension showed a darker and more melodic approach until Abducted, which includes live staple ‘Roswell 47’, this first phase of HYPOCRISY’s career laid down the groundwork for the Swedes trademark sound.

The 2023 reissues feature all original art with a few careful touch-ups – the band logo on Penetralia was for example never meant to be pink/purple – and preserve true death metal classics in an astonishing form that have been unavailable especially on LP for far too long. Get ready to revisit one of the most consistent and dynamic discographies in the genre!

Pre-order those formats here:
https://nblast.de/HypocrisyShopInt
https://hypocrisyband.com/chapter1