Hypocrisy "Penetralia"

Hypocrisy began as a solo project of Peter Tägtgren under the name Seditious.

During the late '80s/early '90s Peter lived in the US and became heavily influenced by the American death metal scene. He then moved back to Sweden and with a new perspective on death metal.

Penetralia is the debut studio album by Hypocrisy, released on October 5, 1992 on Nuclear Blast Records. This is the first of two studio albums with vocalist Masse Broberg, who would later be dismissed as vocalist, with guitarist Peter Tägtgren assuming the position instead. Hypocrisy's lyrics do not focus on the paranormal and science fiction as would be the case in later albums, instead focussing on more "traditional" death metal themes such as Satanism and anti-Christianity. Two music videos would be made for tracks from the record: Impotent God and Left to Rot. The album was later remastered and re-released as a double disk album with their second album Osculum Obscenum in 2013.

Track listing

1. "Impotent God" 3:45
2. "Suffering Souls" 3:25
3. "Nightmare" 4:27
4. "Jesus Fall" 3:25
5. "God Is a Lie" (titled "God Is a..." on the back cover of the original pressing) 2:56
6. "Left to Rot" 3:32
7. "Burn by the Cross" 4:45
8. "To Escape Is to Die" 3:52
9. "Take the Throne" 5:18
10. "Penetralia" 6:32

Total length: 41:57

Hypocrisy's first logo, which was Masse Broberg's idea, was made by Peter Almlöf.

"God Is a Lie" was titled God Is a... on the back cover of the original pressing. 

The lyrics are not present in the booklet.

Music videos:

- Impotent God

- Left to Rot

Recording information:

Recorded at Studio Rockshop.