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Hypocrisy: The Arrival Melodic Death Metal Nuclear Blast Records February 16th, 2004
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Review
Hypocrisy seemed to really get their big break, as well as their biggest push from Nuclear Blast Records, around 2004 with the release of their album The Arrival, which continues to find the band altering their music, as well as continuing on with songs about aliens and such other related topics. Even though this album spawned the single "Eraser", it's not quite up to par with some of the band's previous releases. The Arrival varies slightly throughout the album. "Born Dead Buried Alive" lacks any real bite and really just acts as an introductory track to the album and tries to set the tone, while "Eraser", the single off this release, is a rather catchy, almost Gothenburg sounding track that will stay lodged in your head for days. The rest of the album seems to be nothing but slower paced song that relay on melody and a Gothenburg sound moreso then anything else. Sure, there's "Stillborn", which is a heavy and insane song, but much of the album winds up sounding like "Eraser" with a few songs that have heavier moments to them, like "New World" and "War Within". Despite the fact that much of the album goes at a rather slow pace, that doesn't mean everything on here is bad. You may not enjoy it at first, but this album does feature some interesting tracks that you will grow to appreciate over time like a fine wine, such as "New World" due to how heavy the song just sounds, as well as the use of deep background singing adding a whole other element to the mix to make it sound that much more haunting. Along with those, you have "Dead Sky Dawning" which is a well crafted, straight forward Melodic Death track that is very soothing track that has a bit more structure to it then the others, and some singing in the background of the chorus behind the rhaspy shouting vocals that works perfectly with the flow of the music. The only problem with these tracks would be that every song after "Stillborn" kind of follows the same song structure, with the exception of "Dead Sky Dawning", and can get rather repetative at times from that, even the shouted chorus with singing behind it. The Arrival is a pretty catchy album from Hypocrisy, though it does have it's faults. If only there were more heavier songs thrown into the album, then this would be a very important release for 2004. Unfortunately, the album has plenty of moments and a few songs that would really have any real bite with you, but that's it. It is definitely worth checking, but it will leave you yearning for the olden days of Hypocrisy.
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