Hate Forest - Scythia [demo] (1999) Rerelease [20011]

Hate Forest is a Ukrainian black metal band from Kharkiv, 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, programmed drums, 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 (Which they have 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. The band never gave interviews, never released photos, and held its distance from the black metal scene.

 The band was active from 1995 to 2005.

After Hate Forest disbanded, Saenko focused on Blood of Kingu, a band similar in style but of different inspiration but had also ceased to exist in 2016.

Reformed for a one-off concert at the Metal East: Нове Коло festival on June 1st, 2019. 

 

 

-Tracklist:

Side A:
1. The Unity     01:27
2. Scythia     07:06
3. Forgotten Voice of Black Perun     01:12
4. Shining Abyss     04:30
   
Side B:
5. Forest of Nevres    04:35    
6. Attila      03:58
7. Herros      02:11
8. To Those Who Came Before Us     11:08

 

-Line up:

- Roman Saenko: Vocals
- Alzeth: Guitars, Drum programming
- Arthur Schkolnik: Bass.

 

 

 

Label: Back on Black.

Pressed on 180g vinyl.
Comes in gatefold cover sleeve.

Tracks 1 to 3: recorded in autumn '98 - winter '99.
Track 8 is a bonus track, not included on the original LP. Recorded in winter '02. Originally appeared on the "Tormenting Legends I" compilation LP.

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