Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy is a death metal band from Sweden. It was formed in 1990 in Ludvika, Sweden by Peter Tägtgren. Musically, the band started off with a traditional death metal sound on their first albums, but soon drifted to become a melodic death metal band. The lyrics in their early stages - written by original vocalist Masse Broberg - were dealing anti-Christian matters and Satanism. However, the band later chose to focus on lyrical themes such as the paranormal and extraterrestrial, which prompted Broberg out of the band (and to transfer his interests to black metal band Dark Funeral as Emperor Magus Caligula). Their tenth album, Virus, contains lyrics of a more typical death metal nature dealing with violence, the horrors of reality, insanity, torture, war, drug addiction, and emotional struggles.