Sorrow - Hate Forest

Scythia - Hate Forest

Released towards the end of 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 ...

Scythia - Hate Forest

Released towards the end of 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 first full length by shadowy Ukrainian band 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 ...

Most Ancient Ones - Hate Forest

The first full length by shadowy Ukrainian band 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 ...

Battlefields - Hate Forest

in structure, the third one, Glare Over Slavonic Lands is more in the vein of traditional depressive, droning black metal, and is reminiscent both of Burzum and of Hate Forest s more melancholy-focused sister band, Drudkh. Whilst the anvil-based percussion is still present, speeding and slowing occasionally to the accompaniment of urgent sounding synths, the song is largely given over to raw and sorrowful riffs, indicative, perhaps, of a scene of fallen dead on the battlefield. Whilst it can be rather samey, Battlefields is a very atmospheric and moving listen, and conveys a sense of militaristic dread and grim relentlessness very successfully, whilst the ...

Battlefields - Hate Forest

in structure, the third one, Glare Over Slavonic Lands is more in the vein of traditional depressive, droning black metal, and is reminiscent both of Burzum and of Hate Forest s more melancholy-focused sister band, Drudkh. Whilst the anvil-based percussion is still present, speeding and slowing occasionally to the accompaniment of urgent sounding synths, the song is largely given over to raw and sorrowful riffs, indicative, perhaps, of a scene of fallen dead on the battlefield. Whilst it can be rather samey, Battlefields is a very atmospheric and moving listen, and conveys a sense of militaristic dread and grim relentlessness very successfully, whilst the ...