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Supreme Hypocrisy

    
       
       
       
     
             
The Order are a heavy metal & hard rock band from Switzerland formed in 2004, releasing five albums over a ten year period from 2006 - 2016. The bands line-up has remained constant throughout the years, with 2020 the year the band will release their sixth album 'Supreme Hypocrisy'.    
             
Featuring a heavy hitting style of hard rock that ventures into the heavy metal genre, the new album from the Swiss hard rockers The Order, is bombastic, explosive and more intense than anything the band have released previously. The cuffs keeping them chained to the hard rock genre, are well and truly off, as The Order deliver a fist clenching, head banging forty five minute fury. Prepare for a blast, as we get underway with 'The Show', the only song out of the ten on offer that keeps both feet in the hard rock genre. Delivering a punch that only hard rock can swing, 'The Show' is like a prelude, a warm up if you like, to the heavy hitting and more metal orientated songs that make up the rest of 'Supreme Hypocrisy' - maybe 'The Show' has been written as a concert opener, like so many bands do, but as 'The Show' nears its end, you better get ready for an explosive gallop of heavy metal...    
             
For the title song 'Supreme Hypocrisy' lights the touch paper and we're off in a blazing fury of raucous riffs. With its faster pace pushing 'Supreme Hypocrisy' (the album) into the realms of metal (rather than rock), The Order leave their shackles behind and stretch their legs into a gallop, running furiously along the heavy metal border. 'Back To Reality' is more ballsy, with plenty of punch and crunch. The buzzing guitars are straight out of the NWOBHM play book, the catchy rhythm is intoxicating, and after the average opening song, the two that followed have turned the album into an exciting "I want to hear more" journey. Kudos The Order, kudos... And oh my fucking God - 'Dreams Are Not The Same' is a corker. The surge in energy is incredible, the tempo amazing, and the infectious level right off the scale. 'Dreams Are Not The Same' fairly sizzles, and will almost certainly take your breath away. Introducing a Southern rock style swagger, 'Save Yourself' is a sleaze rock/metal offering, bringing back the glorious sound of the late eighties/nineties when the likes of Faster Pussycat, Ratt and Cinderella were strutting their stuff. 'No Messiah' thunders in and adopts a much rougher and tougher feel than anything heard on the album so far. Heavy hitting and fairly forceful, 'No Messiah' is gonna barge its way past and act like the (proverbial) bull in a china shop.    
             
The sleaze rock/metal sound makes an emphatic return in the mighty shape of 'August In Miami' - but this time the hard rock genre is also sewn into the rhythm. This makes for one helluva catchy song, with The Order delivering one of those "just gets better and better" albums. Taking on a decidedly heavier and much darker vibe, 'Where I Come From' is slow paced and sleazy rock at its moodiest - maybe even touching on grunge as it swathes past. And what's this? Keyboards! A ballad! Well, sort of - 'Sometimes' is just keyboards and vocals. Passion and emotion rise high as 'Sometimes' rolls on all mellow and soulful, leading straight into the final song, the seven minute 'Only The Good Die Young' (and no, it's not an Iron Maiden cover). This 'Only The Good Die Young' is a power ballad with an epic nature that draws tension, very tight. After all the bombast and energy oozing from the albums previous songs, 'Only The Good Die Young' creates an atmospheric and show stopping theatrical ending.    
             
Overall, a heavy hitting and hard rocking album from the Swiss metallers, 'Supreme Hypocrisy' offers surprises left right and centre.    
             
             
Review by Iron Mathew Collins    
             
Reviewed for Metal Gods TV    
             
             
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