The Fourth Dimension is the third studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 released by Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy (band)

Hypocrisy is a melodic death metal band from Sweden. It was formed in 1990 in Ludvika, Sweden by Peter Tägtgren.Musically, the band started off with a traditional death metal sound on their first albums, and soon drifted to become a melodic death metal band. The lyrics in their early stages -...

 on October 25, 1994. The limited edition digipak

Digipak

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 (cat.-no. NB 112-2 DIGI) — not to be confused with the digipak re-release, had "The Abyss" instead of "The Arrival of the Demons". This track was later re-recorded for The Arrival album. The digipak re-release contains two bonus tracks; "Request Denied" and "Strange Ways" taken from the Maximum Abduction

Maximum Abduction

- Credits :* Mikael Hedlund − bass* Lars Szöke − drums* Peter Tägtgren − vocals, guitars, keyboards...

EP

Extended play

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. After departure with Masse Broberg - original vocalist - lyrics started to base more on paranormal and science fiction. Person in cover is Mikael Hedlund, Hypocrisy's bass player.

Track listing

Band members

• Peter Tägtgren
  Peter Tägtgren
  Alf Peter Tägtgren is a Swedish musician and producer. He is the founder, main songwriter, lead vocalist, and guitarist of the death metal band Hypocrisy as well as the industrial metal band PAIN in which he is the only member....
  
   − Vocals
  Death growl
  A death growl, also known as death metal vocals, guttural vocals, death grunts, and harsh vocals among other names, is a vocalisation style usually employed by vocalists of the death metal and black metal music genre, but also used in a variety of heavy metal and hardcore punk subgenres.Death...
  
  , Guitars
  Electric guitar
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  , Keyboards
• Mikael Hedlund − Bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Lars Szöke − Drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  

Production

• Produced and mixed by Peter Tägtgren
  Peter Tägtgren
  Alf Peter Tägtgren is a Swedish musician and producer. He is the founder, main songwriter, lead vocalist, and guitarist of the death metal band Hypocrisy as well as the industrial metal band PAIN in which he is the only member....
  
  
• Engineered by Gunnar Silins
• Mastered by Gunnar Silins, at Park Studio, Stockholm
• Photos, art and design by P Grøn, Sweden
• Executive producer M. Staiger