Photo Gallery: Hypocrisy + SepticFlesh + The Agonist + Horizon Ignited @ Apolo 2, Barcelona (October 15th, 2022)
The swedish death metal gods performed an amazing show accompanied by three powerful bands.
Hipocrisy and SepticFlesh‘s tour was one of the most anticipated for extreme metal lovers in the peninsula so far this year. The visit of two of the greats of the genre in our country was an unavoidable event for those of us who enjoy the most authentic proposals on the scene and, what better way to do it than with two extreme legends accompanied by two great guest artists: Horizon Ignited and The Agonist
The Finns Horizon Ignited, who for now only have two great studio albums to their credit, had been presenting their most recent studio work: Towards the Dying Lands, released at the beginning of July of this same year under the Nuclear Blast label. The band consists of drummer Jiri Vanhatalo, guitarists Johannes Mäkinen and Vili Vottonen, vocalist Okko Solanterä, bassist Jukka Haarala and keyboardist Miska Ek.
Horizon Ignited setlist consisted basically of their most recent studio album, performing six of the ten songs that give life to Towards the Dying Lands, with songs such as Servant, Fall Apart or the title track of the album itself, Towards the Dying Lands, in addition to delight us with some songs from their debut album such as Equal in Death or Leviathan
The Agonist, for their part, focused their live performance on their most recent EP titled Days Before the World Wept, released in 2021 under the Napalm Records label. The Canadian quintet currently consists of vocalist Vicky Psarakis, guitarists Pascal Jobin and Danny Marino, bassist Chris Kells and drummer Simon McKay
Four songs dropped from Days Before the World Wept in what would be half of their setlist, performing all the songs on the EP, leaving out only Feast on the Living. Likewise, they also focused their live performance on Orphans from 2019 to play In Vertigo, the title track and Blood as my Guide, rescuing only Perpetual Notion from their Eye of Providence from 2015, completely forgetting albums like Five (2016), Prisoners (2012), Lullabies for the Dormant Mind (2009) and Once Only Imagined (2007).
The Greeks SepticFlesh led by bassist and vocalist Spiros Antoniou focused their repertoire on Codex Omega (2017) and Modern Primitive (2022), completely forgetting about Titan (2014) to return to The Great Mass (2011) and Communion (2008). The ten songs performed by the Athens-based quintet left authentic hymns for posterity such as The Vampire from Nazareth, Neuromancer, Portrait of a Headless Man or Anubis.
We finally received the Swedes Hypocrisy lead by Peter Tägtgren who had been presenting their album Worship released last year under the Nuclear Blast label, doing an extensive review of their complete discography in which in addition to the bassist Mikael Hedlund they still have the guitarist Tomas Elofsson and drummer Henrik Axelsson.
The band released only three songs from their most recent album, among which Chemical Whore and Children of the Gray stand out, giving us a complex Weed Out the Weak from A Taste of Extreme Divinity (2009), the bestial Inferior Devoties from Osculum Obscenum (1993), the unique and imposing Impotent God from his glorious debut Penetralia (1992), finishing the event in Barcelona with the iconic Roswell 47 from Abducted (1996).
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