Abducted (album)

Abducted
Studio album by Hypocrisy
Released	February 13, 1996
Recorded	March–October 1995, Abyss Studio, Sweden
Genre	Melodic death metal
Length	47:13
Label	Nuclear Blast
Producer	Peter Tägtgren
Hypocrisy chronology
The Fourth Dimension (1994) Abducted (1996) The Final Chapter (1997)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Abducted is the fourth studio album released by Hypocrisy. It is the album where the band started to change its sound. On this release melodic death metal was brought into the original death metal sound. It was also released as a limited edition digipak, not to be confused with the non-limited edition digipak re-release.

The samples in the intro, "The Gathering", are taken from the so-called Halt Tape, which was allegedly recorded during the Rendlesham Forest incident on December 26, 1980.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Hypocrisy. 

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Gathering"	1:09
2.	"Roswell 47"	3:56
3.	"Killing Art"	2:55
4.	"The Arrival of the Demons (part 2)"	3:17
5.	"Buried"	3:11
6.	"Abducted"	2:50
7.	"Paradox"	4:32
8.	"Point of No Return"	3:54
9.	"When the Candle Fades"	5:30
10.	"Carved Up"	3:28
11.	"Reflections"	2:37
12.	"Slippin' Away"	5:13
13.	"Drained"	4:28

Japanese bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
14.	"Request Denied"
15.	"Strange Ways" (Kiss cover)

Digipak re-release live bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
14.	"Fractured Millennium"	5:28
15.	"Legions Descend"	4:07
16.	"Fire in the Sky"	5:13
17.	"Elastic Inverted Visions"	5:47

This digipack re-release features four live tracks recorded at the Nuclear Blast Festival on September 25, 2000.

Credits

Band members

• Mikael Hedlund − bass guitar
• Lars Szöke − drums
• Peter Tägtgren − vocals, electric guitars, keyboards

Production

• Produced and mixed by Peter Tägtgren
• Recorded and mixed in Abyss Studio, Sweden, March – October 1995
• Engineered by Hypocrisy
• Mastered by Peter In De Betou at Cuttingroom, Solna, Sweden
• Photo, art and design by P Grøn, Sweden

Carved Up

Carved Up is a 7" vinyl single released in 1996 by Hypocrisy immediately after the Abducted album.

Track listing

• A-side: "Carved Up"
• B-side: "Beginning of the End"

References

1. Abducted (album) at AllMusic