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.

 Layout cover by Cinic Network.

 

 

  

Hate Forest - The Most Ancient Ones (2001) LP reissue [2011]

 

 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, 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. 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. Despite accusations of being a national-socialist black metal band, there is no definitive evidence available to prove the statement, and the band and their record label had previously expressed an aversion to political lyrics, endorsements, or any sort of mention of modern issues prior to their disbandment.

Hate Forest disbanded and a new band (fronted by Roman Saenko) called Blood of Kingu was formed.

Reformed in 2019 for a one-off concert at Metal East - Nove Kolo.

BOBV231LP

-Tracklist:

Side A:
1. To the Thickets and Swamps     04:05    
2. The Most Ancient Ones     04:53    
3. Inmost Winter     06:00    
4. Black Forest     05:07
   
Side B.
5. The Elders     05:27    
6. Darkness     06:27    
7. The Night of Winter Solstice     06:54    
8. The Curse     06:22

 

-Line up:

• Thurios: Vocals, Guitars
• Roman Saenko. Vocals, Guitars, Bass
• Khaoth: Drum programming. 

 

 

 

Label: Back on Black. 

 Recorded in summer and autumn 2001.

 The music on this album is a re-recording of "The Curse" demo with altered song order and programmed drums.

 

 
Manufactured and distributed by Plastic Head Distribution.

180gram.

 Gatefold cover. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.