Satanath Records - Reviews: SAT395

Reviews: SAT395

The German death metal band Hatred Inherit chose a good name for themselves. Humankind’s history, from the most ancient of times straight through to the grisly present, is replete with evidence that hatred is like an inherited trait. From one generation to the next, it seems to be passed down as if a central part of the species’ DNA.

In that context we can contemplate what inspires the band’s music: Is it an expression of our tribes’ undying hatefulness? Or a rage kindled by witnessing it, over and over again? Or a severe despondency and desperation caused by bearing witness to such destructive deviancy?

Each listener can draw their own conclusions from the music, most recently captured in the band’s 31-minute second album Void, which will be co-released on June 13th by Satanath Records (Georgia) and Pest Records (Romania) — and more immediately from the song we’re premiering today: “Shrine“.

To answer the questions posed earlier (from this writer’s perspective), “Shrine” seems to say “all of the above.” It quickly consumes the listener in a furious onslaught of thunderous rhythms, boiling and writhing tremolo’d riffage, and monstrous roars. But the emotional quality of the frantic riffing seems as despairing as it does assaulting.

In addition, the music seems to moan and scream — and the vocals explode in screams as well — channeling agony and fear even as the rhythm section detonate megaton bombs and repeatedly jolt the listener’s spine. Moreover, the high-powered, fleet-fingered riffing convulses in spasms of violent derangement and generates blaring pulses of sound.

The song is a breathtaking but also bleak experience. It’s both unmistakably brutal and technically impressive but also melodically nuanced, capable of harnessing, even at high speed, sensations of hatefulness, rage, despair, and pain.

Hatred Inherit identify their major influences as Malevolent Creation, Dead Congregation, Hate, Morbid Angel, Immolation, Decapitated, Thy Art Is Murder, and Death… and it’s likely that fans of those bands will relish what they’ve done on the new album.

Void was recorded at the studio of guitarist Stipe Šimleša at 3rd Floor Sounds, and it features dark eye-catching artwork by Kai Ski from The Serpent Sun Tattoo. Satanath and Pest will release it on jewel-box CD (ltd. 500 copies) with an 8-page booklet, and digitally. Find pre-orders below, along with a stream of the album’s devastating first single, “Feeding the Abyss“.

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