HATE

Release Year: 2015
Artist Origin: POL
Style: intense complex blackened death metal

as if personally concerned about all those Behemoth comparisons, long-lasting entity from Warsaw makes one more attempt to distance the music at least a bit aside, but once again grant the diversity only for the start and finish, involving some unexpected experimental elements and significant dynamic shifts that relentless intense numbers may lack; otherwise it is catchy, menacing, uncompromising and pure Hate that we know so well for more than twenty years now, where guitar tone remains razor-sharp, production polished yet not sterile, and vocal delivery confidently fierce, reinforcing the band's identity while subtly hinting at a broader, perhaps more nuanced vision behind the sonic brutality; Austrian digipak edition with The Reaping bonus is limited to the first press