Hypocrisy

It was not very long ago that Sweden's Hypocrisy supposedly released their last record (1997's The Final Chapter). Well, the band is still alive and have offered us a slab of Hypocrisy2K with Into The Abyss. The title of the album refers to the studio owned by bandleader Peter Tagtgren, (the Abyss) and is a bit of a tongue-in-cheek reference to how the record was recorded. The album itself was done at a lightening fast pace. It only took about five weeks to write, record and mix the whole thing. To be completely honest, the record does feel like it was rushed a little. Not that it is a bad record - I think this band is a little too talented to put out a bum disc. But if they would have worked on the actual songs a little more than they did, I think this could have really been a classic and not just a filler album in an otherwise proficient career.