Hate Forest

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Hate Forest is a Ukrainian black metal band formed by Roman Saenko, the leading member of Drudkh, , 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 (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 Blood of Kingu, a band similar in style, but of different inspiration. This project officially came to an end in 2016, but in 2020 released a new album.

Members[]

Final lineup[]

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

• Roman Saenko (also in Drudkh, Blood of Kingu and ) – Lead vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, and drum programming.
• (also in Drudkh, Blood of Kingu and ) – vocals and guitar (for live performance, 2002)^[2]

Previous members[]

• Khaoth – drums (for live performance, 2001)
• Alzeth – guitar (1998–1999, 2002; former Dark Ages)
• Roman Novik – bass (for live performance, 2000 and 2001)

Discography[]

• Scythia (demo, 1999)
• Darkness (EP, 2000)
• The Curse (demo, 2000)
• The Most Ancient Ones (full-length, 2001)
• Blood & Fire (EP, 2001)
• Ritual (EP, 2001)
• The Gates (EP, 2001)
• Blood & Fire/Ritual (compilation, 2001)
• To Those Who Came Before Us (compilation, 2002)
• Purity (full-length, 2003)
• To Twilight Thickets (compilation, 2003)
• Battlefields (full-length, 2003)
• Resistance (EP, 2004)
• Sorrow (full-length, 2005)
• Nietzscheism (compilation, 2005)
• Temple Forest (demo, 2007, recorded in 2000; appeared as a part of To Twilight Thickets, released in 2007 as a stand-alone demo)
• Grief of the Universe/Spinning Galaxies (split EP with , 2008)
• Dead But Dreaming (compilation, 2009)
• Those Once Mighty Fallen (Split with Ildjarn, 2013)
• Hour of the Centaur (full-length, 2020)
• Celestial Wanderer (EP, 2020)

References[]

External links[]

• Hate Forest on Myspace

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