Purity - Hate Forest

Cold and relentless Ukrainian black metal (292 words)
by Burning_Darkness - written on 02/11/09, updated on 02/11/09 (Very useful, 21 readings)
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Following on from The Most Ancient Ones , Ukrainian black metal band H Hate Forest s 2003 second full length, Purity continues in the vein of if its predecessor with fast, cold, harsh and uncompromising black metal. The music is lo-fi and frequently repetitive, with simplistic bars of fast riffs hammered out endlessly whilst the drums blast away in the background, although the songs are nevertheless extremely well-structured, with engaging song progression and variation in tempo that keeps the adrenaline pumping at all times. There are also sweeping, melancholy eastern-european sounding riffs evident here and there throughout, and occasionally a song will switch to a ...

Scythia - Hate Forest

To Those Who Came Before Us (314 words)
by Burning_Darkness - written on 30/06/09, updated on 30/06/09 (Very useful, 30 readings)
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Released towards the end of H Hate Forest s career in 2004, Scythia , is a re-recording of their first demo from 1999, and combines their stripped-down, relentless black metal style with some interesting musical touches and atmospheric devices to create a suprisingly varied and cohesive album. The songs are still comprised of harsh, freezing black metal, and many of the riffs on offer here possess an icy, droning quality full of strained melody and dread, that will likely appeal to fans of early Gorgoroth and Mayhem. The sound here is less trebly than on earlier efforts, with more low-end sound present, and the songs rattle on with a well established sense of momentum ...

Most Ancient Ones - Hate Forest

The Raw Sound of Nature (262 words)
by Burning_Darkness - written on 30/06/09, updated on 30/06/09 (Very useful, 47 readings)
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The first full length by shadowy Ukrainian band H Hate Forest The Most Ancient Ones offers a little over over three quarters of an hour of rumbling, ominous black metal. The production is very trebly and raw and the songs are characterised by repetitive and hypnotic tremelo riffs, ludicrously downtuned bass, and high-speed, snare-heavy drumming, with the occasional shifts down to a slower tempo and minor chord changes being about the only things that gives any of the tracks any variation. Every song on the album initially sounds close to identical, but sustained listening does reveal subtle melodic differences and small tweaks in song structure. The vocals are also ...