Behold a new Arrival of Sweden´s finest, Hypocrisy! After their experimental album Catch 22 in 2002, workaholics Peter Tägtgren, Mikael Hedlund and Lars Szöke reinvent the glorious times of The Final Chapter and Hypocrisy – through a full load of ten new, catchy and absolutely stunning tracks: Songs with a gloomy doom attitude and heavy mid-tempo smashers as well as faster stuff fill every moment with the magical feeling that makes Hypocrisy so special among the masses of Scandinavian death metal bands nowadays.

The history of Hypocrisy began in 1991 when Peter Tägtgren sent out demos to several record companies and got signed to Nuclear Blast. Penetralia, Osculum Obscenum and The Forth Dimension, aggressive death metal albums with a slight melodic touch and lyrics about aliens and extraterrestrial incidents, marked the first steps of the band and earned them a high profile within the European underground. The break through came with an intended end actually: The Final Chapter, originally considered to be the last record of Hypocrisy as Peter wanted to put more time and energy into his electro metal project PAIN, turned out to be the most successive work of the band thus far. With its mixture of death metal and doom/gothic elements, The Final Chapter reached a bigger audience than before and got the attention of people who normally were not interested in brutal music. Encouraged by the great responses, the band recorded Hypocrisy and the majestic opening song ´Fractured Millennium´ became a melodic death metal hymn of excellence. Tours all across Europe established the great reputation of Peter and Co. and several concerts in the USA also enthused the American audience to the Hypocrisy phenomena. After the next hammer Into the abyss, Hypocrisy released a best of album titled 10 Years Of Chaos And Confusion to celebrate their tenth anniversary. The album featured a fan-elected tracklist with all the hits of the last decade. 2002's Catch 22 defined a new dimension of sound for Hypocrisy with progressive, punk and rock´n´roll influences and led Hypocrisy into a modern era of popular death metal.

If you liked Hypocrisy´s outputs of the late 1990s, you will definitely love The Arrival; an album as strong and intoxicating as death metal can be. No doubt a new masterpiece of Peter & Co, ready to blow your mind!

Biography taken from the Official website.