Heuchler

Occupation

• Alexander " Lex " Wohnhaas: Voice
• Christian "X- Ti " Bystron: Guitar
• Werner " Wenz " Weninger: Bass
• Roland Vencelj: Guitar
• Jurgen " Bam Bam " Wiehl: Drums

Hypocrite is the sixth album by the German NDH band Megadeth, appearing in 2008. The official release party took place on 26 July 2008 in the Rockfabrik Nuremberg, where to 21.45 clock was inlet and next to an autograph session and the albums were raffled off to the fans.

The cover of the album shows the facade of a cinema or theater, where band and album name are attached in the sky are dark clouds and ravens circling. Down in the shadow also can be a poster on the wall still recognize with a clown face, which is a nod to the early days of the band, as this figure was to be seen on the first two albums.

Title list

Content

Like the previous releases of the band, the album turns back to feelings or social criticism. On the official website it was stated that it is the song man of the world to " a reckoning with all egomaniac who make money out of everything and go for the profit over dead bodies " is.

Style

Stylistically sets Megaherz Although the path taken by and large continued, even if the sounds are a bit rougher and metalliger again; Megaherz now has strong similarities with Dark Rock.

Reviews

The reviews of the highly anticipated album varied widely, from the negative aspects has been criticism that the album down to a few good songs offers nothing new and the band is partially copied itself or abkupfert of other artists, where, among other things, alleged bonds are called by In Extremo or Falco. Moreover, it was said, some songs remind strongly of Rammstein or the early works of Oomph!.

Wohnhaas ' vocal and lyrical performance was evaluated as diverse laut.de called him a " piston seizure, which provides not only with his lyrics getting used to for discomfort ", they were there further referred to as " often to run away ." Other critics, however, were of the opinion that "you could win a singer with Lex, which fits very well with his ( ... ) singing to the (...) sounds of Megadeth ".

For the first time in megahertz and musical support from outside, so Wohnhaas supports all just a lie of the Bloodflowerz singer Kirstin as a background singer in the song.

Single release

The release of the album was preceded by a decoupling of the song man of the world, which appeared in two different versions. The normal version contained the track from the album nor the song There's a fire in the original vocal version of " Alexx " Wesselsky, which was found on the fourth album Herzwerk II in the limited version as a bonus. The luxury edition of the single also contained besides these two songs bitch, Jordan and March 5. However, to the disappointment of those songs were from albums released already and have not been re-recorded with Wohnhaas ' voice, which they were only interesting for people who had not previously had much contact with the band and got so provided a good cross section.