Hate Forest - Scythia [Reissue 2004], Battlefields [2004], Nietzscheism [2005]

 

Hate Forest is a black metal band from Kharkiv, Ukraine, formed by Roman Saenko, in 1995.

Thurios joined the band in 1998, after the recording of Scythia.
The band never gave interviews, and never released photos, and tended to distance themselves from the "black metal scene".
Their lyrics primarily focused on Slavic/Aryan mythology, Lovecraftian mythos, and the works of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Hate Forest called it a day, in 2005, with Roman and Thurios switching focus to the Ukrainian folk metal/black metal band, Drudkh. They reunited in 2019 after playing the Nove Kolo festival where they donated all proceeds from their performance to a local children's charity. Their new album Hour of the Centaur was released in December 2020.

Hate Forest were always far from politics, religion, denied any modern world values and ideals. The band never gave interviews, never made photos and always hold the distance from the whole black metal scene.

 

Hate Forest disbanded in 2004 and a new band (fronted by Roman Saenko) called Blood of Kingu was formed, however Hate Forest had reformed for a one-off concert at the Metal East: Нове Коло festival on June 1st, 2019. However, in December 2020, Osmose Productions announced Hour of the Centaur, Hate Forest's first album in 15 years, slated to be released the same month.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  -Scythia [Reissue 2004]  

 1. The Unity     01:27     
2. Scythia     07:06     
3. Forgotten Voice of Black Perun     01:12   
4. Shining Abyss     04:30     
5. Forest of Nevres     04:35     
6. Attila     03:58     
7. Herros     02:11     
8. To Those Who Came Before Us     11:06

 Tracks 1-7 recorded in autumn '98 - winter '99.
Track 8 recorded in winter '02.

 

 

-Battlefields [2004]

 1. У недiлю     01:54 
2. With Fire and Iron     09:12 
3. Проведу я русалочку     01:02 
4. Our Fading Horizons     10:34 
5. Колискова     01:57 
6. Glare over Slavonic Lands     10:20 
7. Поминальна     02:46

 The cover image of this edition is the gravestone of the Cossack military leader Ivan Sirko (c. 1610-1680), located in the village of Kapulivka in the Dnipropetrovsk Region of the Ukraine.
Recorded in autumn '02 - spring '03.

 

 -Nietzscheism [Comp. 2005]

 1. Carl Orff - Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi     05:38 
2. Annihilation     03:27 
3. The Wood Brothers     04:42 
4. Scythia     07:05
5. Shining Abyss     04:25 
6. Aryosophia     06:55 
7. Nietzscheism     07:13 
8. Black God     06:26 
9. Burning Churches     04:30

Tracks 2 & 3 are taken from "Resistance", recorded in spring 2004, originally released by Ledo Takas Records in 2004.
Tracks 4 & 5 are taken from "Darkness" (taken from "Scythia"), recorded in autumn 1998 - winter 1999, originally released by Miriquidi Productions & City Of The Dead Records in 2000.
Tracks 6 & 7 are taken from "Blood And Fire", recorded in winter - spring 2001, originally released by Sombre Records in 2001.
Tracks 8 & 9 are taken from "Ritual", recorded in spring 2001, originally released by Miriquidi Productions & City Of The Dead Records in 2001.