Hate Forest is a Ukrainian

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band formed by Roman Saenko, the leading member of

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, Dark Ages, and

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. 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

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quality production, sometimes with programmed drums(drummer is a live player during concerts), and dark ambient elements (some releases have consisted entirely of dark ambient tracks). Musical influences are mostly from

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n 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

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's philosophy. The band never gave interviews, never released photos, and held its distance from the black metal scene. After Hate Forest disbanded, Saenko focused on

, and other side projects such as Blood of Kingu,Windswept and Precambrian which are of different inspirations. 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

and Dark Ages) – Lead vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, and drum programming. * Thurios (also in Drudkh, Blood of Kingu and Astrofaes) – vocals and guitar (for live performance, 2002)

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) * ''

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'' (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

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, 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) * ''Innermost'' (full-length, recorded in 2021; released in 2022)

References

External links

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