Hate Forest

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Hate Forest
Origin Kharkiv, Ukraine
Genres Black metal, dark ambient
Years active1995–2004, 2019–present
Labels
  • Ancient Nation
  • Back on Black
  • Beverina
  • Black Metal Store
  • Blut & Eisen
  • Blutreinheit
  • City of the Dead
  • Darker Than Black
  • Dread
  • Elegy
  • Funeral
  • Galgenstrang
  • Hammer of Damnation
  • Kolovrat
  • Ledo Takas
  • Miriquidi
  • Nawia
  • Night Birds
  • Noble Wolves
  • Northern Heritage
  • Osmose
  • Primitive Reaction
  • Pussy God
  • Red Stream
  • Slavonic Metal
  • Soldats Inconnus
  • Sombre
  • Supernatural
  • The True Neverdead
  • Those Opposed
  • Totenkopf Propaganda
  • War Arts
  • Werewolf
  • Zyklon-B
Members Roman Saenko
Thurios
Website www.myspace.com/hateforestukraine

Hate Forest is a Ukrainian black metal band formed by Roman Saenko, the leading member of Drudkh, Dark Ages, and Blood of Kingu. Thurios joined the band in 1998 after the recording of Scythia. The music is mostly very fast, but occasionally slow, with low, distorted vocals, raw low fidelity quality production, sometimes with programmed drums(drummer is a live player during concerts), and dark ambient elements (some releases have consisted entirely of dark ambient tracks). Musical influences are mostly from Scandinavian black metal to traditional death metal, especially Bolt Thrower (they covered their song "Cenotaph"). According to the band, its lyrics are about mythology, mainly Slavic, and inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's stories and Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy. [1] The band never gave interviews, never released photos, and held its distance from the black metal scene. After Hate Forest disbanded, Saenko focused on Drudkh, and other side projects such as Blood of Kingu, Windswept and Precambrian which are of different inspirations. This project officially came to an end in 2016, but in 2020 released a new album.

Contents

Members

Final lineup

(Note: both the following members were the original lineup which made up Hate Forest).

Previous members

Discography

Albums

Compilation albums

EPs


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References

  1. "HATE FOREST Albums To Be Reissued". Blabbermouth.net. 2009-06-17. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
  2. "Hate Forest - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives". Metal-archives.com. Retrieved 7 October 2020.