HATE: New Album Update

Polish death mongers HATE are currently in the studio recording their new album, "Anaclasis", for an late 2005 release via Listenable Records.

Commented mainman Adam the First Sinner: "We're extremely satisfied with the results we got after over a month at Hertz Studio, where most of the tracks were laid. Earlier we worked on a synthetic background and samples at Hard Studio, Warsaw, with Kris Wawrzak as a co-producer. All the rest was recorded at Hertz with Wieslawski Bros. — producers of our previous album, 'Awakening of the Liar'. We had a comfort of six weeks booked at the studio which enabled us to experiment with the sound and work on every small detail. Thanks to this, the record sounds breathtaking! Power, aggression and hypnotic trance of fastest blasts ever — that's what you're gonna get.

"When recording guitar tracks we consciously avoided Mesa Boogie amplifier, which is most commonly used gear nowadays. Instead we used a Randall (signed by Dimebag Darrell of PANTERA),combining it with a Marshall Fourmade and Soundman which turned out to be a great choice. As for drums, we used Tama Starclassic enriching its sound with some good samples that made it more selective and powerful. I mentioned about synthetics and samples which you might associate with some new metal or shit like this. But don't get mistaken! This album's gonna be one of the fastest and most extreme records in the whole metal genre! The tempo of almost each song is well above 240 metronome beats per minute. It's a really devilish speed. Our drummer, Hellrizer, proved to be in a very good shape at the studio so we decided to play some tracks faster than planned before. But the best of this material is compositions and the fact we managed to realize them exactly as we had intended to.

"Comparing to 'Awakening of the Liar' the new material is more complex and in most part differs quite a lot from a traditional death metal. In our opinion extreme music needs fresh ideas, sounds, ways of expression, and that's what we bore in mind all the time when working on 'Anaclasis'.

"As for the lyrics, the album is a blasphemy against God and dogmas which are considered guidelines even by those not too religious. For example, having a wife/husband, having children, being moral, polite, sticking to the rules of the society, reconciling to your fate etc. It's a bunch of cliches and superstitions to us and we've nothing but scorn for this way of thinking. Another central theme of the lyrics is a transcendental, demonic world, which I believe is parallel to the reality we normally percieve; these worlds criss-cross and influence each other. You will find this idea reflected in the music — besides my vocals there are demonic, women's voices that sound as if they come from beyond. We used such effects in almost each track on the album so you may get an impression of a 'haunted' music. Those of you who know us from previous releases should not find it difficult to recognize which band it is. However, this time we offer something more progressive, evil and dirty than anything before. We don't resign from characteristic choruses because they make music closer to a listener, but we don't want to play death metal in the same classical way any more. We want to push it further to the limits of extremity and gives it a new sound. 'Anaclasis' is our first attempt to achieve this. I hope you'll find it interesting. Here you have the titles of the tracks: 'Anaclasis', 'Necropolis', 'Hex', 'Malediction', 'Euphoria of the New Breed', 'Empire of Dirt', 'Immortality', 'Fountains of Blood to Reach Heavens'. See you as soon as possible! Deny the fucking cross!"