Interview- Peter Tägtgren
"1994- Hypocrisy had just released their album "The Fourth Dimension".
ABHFR: How would you describe the new album?
PT: I would describe it as dark, depressing, kind of mixed with speed metal, kind of Gothic in a way. I don't know, it's kind of hard, basically what it's uh I don't know it's kind of hard to describe it yourself you know.
ABHFR: I know, mainly I ask because I haven't heard it yet. I have heard it makes all your old stuff sound kind of boring and that this one is a lot better.
PT: Yeah.
ABHFR: How would you say it is different from your old stuff?
PT: Because this time we tried to make the music more simple, not 200 different riffs in one song, you know, like when you hear the chorus, you know it's the chorus. We made the songs a lot simpler, not so much shit, not shit but not so much complicated stuff, you know. More older speed metal type stuff.
ABHFR: A little more simplistic?
PT: Um.. Yeah.
ABHFR: Kind of along the lines of what Grave did this time?
PT: No, it's more simple.
ABHFR: What are you doing now that the album is out?
PT: The only thing we've got going right now is a tour of Europe. It's a festival tour actually. It's a Nuclear Blast tour, it's six Nuclear Blast bands that are going to out and tour. Just for eight gigs, it's going to be like a new year's festival.
ABHFR: So you don't have any American tour plans in the works?
PT: No, nothing that I know of right now, but we want to go. Record companies want us to go, but we need to find a good tour. So it's kind of hard. There aren't too many bands releasing albums, you know.
ABHFR: How would you say going from a three piece to a five piece has changed your music?
PT: Nothing really because I basically wrote all of the music myself, so it doesn't really affect Hypocrisy. It was like this: I made a demo myself, recorded and played the instruments and shit. I got a contract off of that and had to form a band off of that and you didn't know most of the people that you took into the band. After a while you find out how people are and you find out you can't work with them. So, that's basically how it was. The three of us that are left you know, we are not just playing in the same band, but also very good friends. It works out very well. The three of us are much a like but the other guys weren't like us. That's basically what happened.
ABHFR: How about lyrics? What do your lyrics deal with?
PT: It's very much out of the body, and very reality, it's not science fiction or anything, you know. Like one song is about how white religion uses people to get ahead like dragging alcoholics and homeless people off the street and give them food in the church and then just use them until they don't know what's up or down, then when they have no need for them they just kick them out. The Fourth Dimension the song is about the out of body experience, it's about when your soul leaves the body and you can see your body go off in the future and you can see all the mistakes it does, and you try to change it, you try to get into your body but your body won't let you back in. It's kind of weird to explain it.
ABHFR: So have you experienced anything like that?
PT: Well, my soul is in my body it let me in this time, but you never know. There is a lot of different things. One song is about the apocalypse, it's not the bible's apocalypse, it's mine. There's a bunch of different things.
ABHFR: What's next? Are you going to record a new album?
PT: Yeah, definitely. We don't know yet what we're going to do with it, what kind of direction. I mean the first album doesn't sound like the second one and the second one doesn't sound like the third one. Personally I think we took ourselves to a new level writing music and lyrics. With the next album we'll try to take it to the next level, a step forward. So many bands release one album then the next one sounds the same as the first one. That's never going to happen with Hypocrisy, I can tell you that.
ABHFR: That's all I had because I haven't had a chance to listen to the album, and I'm sorry I didn't have better questions for you.
PT: Yeah, I know.
ABHFR: Anything to add?
PT: Just hope to see all the people that wrote us and buy the album, you know.
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