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│║ Release Information ║ │
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│║ Release Date.Jul-14-2012 Encoder......L3.97 -V2 --vbr-new ║ │
│║ Genre........Death Metal Graber.......EAC ║ │
│║ Year.........1999 Khz/Bitrate..44,1/ Br ║ │
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│║ Ripper.......The_Patriarch Songs........17 ║ │
│║ Covers.......Yes Url... www.hypocrisy.cc ║ │
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│║ Release Notes ║ │
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│║ Artist : Hypocrisy Rating : You Decide! ║ │
│║ Album : Destroys Wacken Label : Avalon ║ │
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│║ Description : ║ │
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│║ Being directly linked to the legendary Abyss ║ │
│║ Studio, an over the top sound is the least you ║ │
│║ can expect from any Hypocrisy album (at least ║ │
│║ from those recorded there). The question is: ║ │
│║ does Hypocrisy shred on stage as much as they do ║ │
│║ in the studio? The answer is contained in this ║ │
│║ tasty little package. ║ │
│║ Recorded at the renowned Wacken Open Air ║ │
│║ Festival in 1998, "Hypocrisy Destroyes Wacken" ║ │
│║ is quite simply all you can ask for to a live ║ │
│║ album. First, to be sure to recreate a perfect ║ │
│║ sound on stage to avoid any further studio ║ │
│║ overdubs, the band had a 3 hour soundcheck ║ │
│║ (!!!), proving once more Peter TΣgtgren's fame ║ │
│║ of perfectionist. And as you push play and are ║ │
│║ greeted by the first notes of "Roswell 47", you ║ │
│║ realize it was worth it, as Hypocrisy recreated ║ │
│║ their trademark crushing studio sound on stage. ║ │
│║ Anyone who heard "Abducted" should know this is ║ │
│║ by no means an easy task. ║ │
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│║ But of course a great sound doesn't make a great ║ │
│║ live album. The core of it all lies in the ║ │
│║ performance. Hypocrisy knows that, and they ║ │
│║ prove to be awesome musicians once more. All the ║ │
│║ songs sound organic and powerful even without ║ │
│║ the band's classic studio gimmicks, like vocals ║ │
│║ / guitar effects and keyboards. Actually, the ║ │
│║ band only uses a second guitarist (Mattias ║ │
│║ Kamijo) and very few DAT's to recreate ║ │
│║ indispensable keyboard sections (e.g.: the ║ │
│║ beginning of "Apocalypse") and some sampled ║ │
│║ voices (like on "The Final Chapter"). The ║ │
│║ perfect interaction between the two guitars and ║ │
│║ Mikael Hedlund's rumbling bass creates a rock ║ │
│║ solid wall of sound, recreating the studio ║ │
│║ counterparts so faithfully you will hardly ║ │
│║ notice any missing sounds. ║ │
│║ This rawer appoach gives the songs a new ║ │
│║ dimension, and enhances the "live" feeling ║ │
│║ without butchering the original atmosphere. ║ │
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│║ Being recorded in 1998, the band's live set ║ │
│║ mainly focused on the newest fferings - "The ║ │
│║ Final Chapter" and "Abducted" -, but the ║ │
│║ tracklist includes songs from every album the ║ │
│║ band released to date. Of course, it's those ║ │
│║ older songs who make "Hypcrisy Destroys Wacken" ║ │
│║ such an interesting listen: "Osculum Obscenum", ║ │
│║ "Left To Rot" and "Pleasure of Molestation" have ║ │
│║ never sounded so ferocious and intense, freed ║ │
│║ from the static album production and Masse ║ │
│║ Bromberg's not very intense vocal performance ║ │
│║ compared to Peter's inhuman growls and shrieks. ║ │
│║ However, the rest of the set is just as ║ │
│║ rewarding: great pit movers like "Buried" or ║ │
│║ "Insaminated Adoption" unveil their real ║ │
│║ potential, and even slower tracks like ║ │
│║ "Apocalypse", "The Fourth Dimension" or the ║ │
│║ closing "The Final Chapter" don't lose an inch ║ │
│║ of intensity of heaviness compared to their ║ │
│║ album renditions. Add a couple of fan favourites ║ │
│║ like "Killing Art" and "A Coming Race", and what ║ │
│║ you have is the album's winning eleven. I could ║ │
│║ wish for some more ("Mind Corruption" or ║ │
│║ "Abducted" would destroy live), but the set ║ │
│║ remains lengthy and rich as it is. ║ │
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│║ As a bonus, Hypocrisy added four studio tracks ║ │
│║ as a "thank you" to all fans who didn't allow ║ │
│║ the band to quit after "The Final Chapter". ║ │
│║ Since two of these songs would later resurface ║ │
│║ on the band's following album, "Hypocrisy", I ║ │
│║ believe these songs were originally meant to be ║ │
│║ released as an EP forerunning the new album... ║ │
│║ whatever. "Time Warp" and "Until the End" (which ║ │
│║ gets mistyped twice on this cd - first as ║ │
│║ "Unkill the End" and then as "Till the End"!!) ║ │
│║ show two different sides of the same band, the ║ │
│║ first being a very fast blazer and the latter a ║ │
│║ moody, atmospheric ballad, both featuring ║ │
│║ Peter's clean voice on the forefront (thrash- ║ │
│║ like screams on "Time Warp" and melodic singing ║ │
│║ on "Until the End"). They dound like demos or ║ │
│║ pre-productions of the album songs (there are no ║ │
│║ liner notes explaining where the bonus tracks ║ │
│║ come from), but they already sound pretty ║ │
│║ developed and arranged, just with a rawer sound. ║ │
│║ "Fuck U" is only available here, and as the ║ │
│║ title suggests is a very funny song, almost a ║ │
│║ punk rock parody with Peter sounding as if ║ │
│║ drunk; anyway, the song itself is a speedy ║ │
│║ headbanger built on very good riffs, and makes a ║ │
│║ very pleasant listen. To my knowledge, the last ║ │
│║ track, "Beginning of the End", was also ║ │
│║ available as the b-side of the "Carved Up" ║ │
│║ single, but I don't know if this is the same ║ │
│║ version (once again due to the absence of liner ║ │
│║ notes). It doesn't sound like it comes from the ║ │
│║ sessions of the previous three tracks, but it ║ │
│║ doesn't sound like a song from "Abducted" ║ │
│║ either, so it can possibly come from the ║ │
│║ "Abudcted" pre-production sessions (as Peter ║ │
│║ himself stated that lots of songs were dropped ║ │
│║ off the final tracklist because the band thought ║ │
│║ they weren't good enough). Anyway, it's another ║ │
│║ great song with many shifts from slower to fast ║ │
│║ tempos, with Peter's voice sounding closer to ║ │
│║ Black Metal than anything else. ║ │
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│║ So we have 11 great live songs and 4 very good ║ │
│║ bonus studio tracks. Excellent sound quality. ║ │
│║ Excellent performance. This works both as a ║ │
│║ treat for long time Hypocrisy followers as well ║ │
│║ as an introduction to new fans. ║ │
│║ I can give it nothing but a full 100%. ║ │
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│║ Release Tracklist ║ │
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│ 01 - Roswell [04:17] │
│ 02 - Inseminated Adoption [04:22] │
│ 03 - A Coming Race [04:57] │
│ 04 - Apocalypse [05:30] │
│ 05 - Osculum Obscenum [04:58] │
│ 06 - Buried [02:50] │
│ 07 - Left to Rot [03:52] │
│ 08 - The Fourth Dimention [05:07] │
│ 09 - Pleasure of Molestation [04:51] │
│ 10 - Killing Art [02:45] │
│ 11 - The Final Chapter [05:22] │
│ 12 - Time Warp (Studio Track) [03:59] │
│ 13 - Till the End (Studio Track) [05:44] │
│ 14 - Fuck U (Studio Track) [03:46] │
│ 15 - Beginning of the End (Studio Track) [02:58] │
│ 16 - Request Denied (Japanese Bonus Track) [04:41] │
│ 17 - Strange Ways (Kiss Cover, Japanese Bonus T [03:25] │
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│ ║ Greetings To: ║ │
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│ Too all people who contributes to make this │
│ archive of good music in a exceptional conditions │
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