''Virus'' is the tenth studio album by Swedish

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band

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. It was released on 19 September 2005 by

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. It is the first Hypocrisy album recorded with their new drummer

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from the

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band

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and second guitarist Andreas Holma. The album features a music video for the song "Scrutinized". Early pressings of the CD were sold with a 13-song limited edition live DVD, with 12 songs recorded in

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on Hypocrisy's 2004 tour as support of

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, and from a different show they play the song "Total Disaster" by

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along with the band's vocalist and bass guitar player Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer. Some CDs have a bonus track, "Watch Out", which appears to be a demo of a song recorded in 2000. Some early pressings have an error where a scratch sound can be heard on tracks 6 and 11. The Nuclear Blast record label said it would mail a replacement to anyone who had one of these glitched discs.

Track listing

Limited edition DVD bonus tracks:
Tracks 1–12 were recorded in

on 4 August 2004. Track 13 was recorded at the

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festival in 2003.

Credits

Band members

Peter Tägtgren Alf Peter Tägtgren (born 3 June 1970) is a Swedish musician, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He is the founder, main songwriter, lead vocalist, and guitarist of death metal band Hypocrisy as well as the industrial metal band Pain i ...

− vocals, guitar, keyboards *Andreas Holma − guitar *Mikael Hedlund − bass *

(Reidar Horghagen) − drums

Production

*Recorded at

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November–December 2004 *Produced and mixed by Peter Tägtgren *Engineered by Hypocrisy *Mastered in Cuttingroom by Björn Engelmann

Songwriting and composition

*Solo on "Scrutinized" performed by Gary Holt

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control Hypocrisy (band) albums 2005 albums Nuclear Blast albums Albums produced by Peter Tägtgren