Artist: Hypocrisy
Title: Penetralia
Label: Nuclear Blast
Cat #: NB67872
Release Year: 1992 / 2023
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Jewel Case

Penetralia is the debut album from the Swedish death metal band Hypocrisy originally released in 1992.

The Swedish death metal band Hypocrisy was formed by Peter Tägtgren in 1990 upon his return to Sweden from Florida, where he had been inspired by the state's flourishing death metal scene (bands like Morbid Angel, Deicide, Death, and Obituary).

In 1992 the band signed its first contract with Nuclear Blast Records and released its monumental debut “Penetralia”. It marks the only time that the band functioned as a five-piece. This album displays a strong influence from American Death Metal. The follow-up “Osculum Obscenum” (1993) marked another milestone in the history of crushing extreme death metal. This album is evil and dark Black/Death Metal the way it should be. When compared to other Death Metal albums of the same period, this absolutely kills nearly everything.

Hypocrisy have long been an integral part of the death metal map. Peter Tägtgren has built a musical legacy that is second to none.

The first 4 albums of the band: Penetralia (1992), Osculum Obscenum (1993), The Fourth Dimension (1994) and Abducted (1996) are released as reissue on CD in jewel case with poster booklet, and single colour and limited multicolour vinyl reissues.

The first two albums were not sung by Tägtgren himself but by a certain Mr. Masse Broberg who is better known as Emperor Magus Caligula from DARK FUNERAL !!!

Recommended if you like: Bloodbath, Kataklysm, Insomnium, At The Gates, Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquillity, Dissection

Track Listing:
1. Impotent God
2. Suffering Souls
3. Nightmare
4. Jesus Fall
5. God Is A Lie
6. Left To Rot
7. Burn By The Cross
8. To Escape Is To Die
9. Take The Throne
10. Penetralia