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Hate Forest is a rather unusual and controversial band that
hails from the Ukraine. They play raw black metal with dark death growls and
refuse to do any interviews and according to their biography "every subhuman
buying hate forest releases buys a weapon against himself". The band started
recording their first songs in 1995 and have released several mini albums and
seven inches so far. "The Most Ancient Ones" is in fact nothing but a
re-recorded version of their demo / live rehearsal cassette tape "The Curse"
which was released through Kolovrat / Nawia Productions early in the band's
career. This recording features a brand new line-up and the songs are
allegedly played twice as fast as on the original tape which I find hard to
believe but this is still a pretty good example of cold primitive black metal
with haunting evil melodies (listen to the title track and "Inmost Winter"
and you know what I mean). The fact that their music has been referred to as
cold aryan metal is very concerning to me but I have been told not to stick my
nose into that subject so therefore I will not (oh, did I, sorry...). It is
not really a masterpiece, definitely not production-wise, but it is a good
album and Darkthrone fans might very well want to investigate this release
further.
| Tracklist |
1. To The Thickets |
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And Swamps 2. The Most Ancient Ones 3. Inmost Winter 4. |
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Black Forest 5. The Elders 6. Darkness 7. The Night Of |
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Winter Solstice 8. The Curse |
: 45.18
| Buy other Hate Forest albums |
