Hate Forest

Finding information about Hate Forest is really not obvious. At a time when everything is accelerating, where the internet has taken an undeniable place in the world of music, not a single website, little or no articles, no photos. In fact, only Supernal Music, the band's current label, offers a brief summary that can be found on different sites. Still patience, the collection of progressive information, dropped it and there on forums, blogs by amateurs. This ambient mystery is obviously a will of the father of Hate Forest, Roman Saenko, who cultivates the mystery and ambivalence around his various projects, especially those of which he is the thinker, Drudkh and Hate Forest. While Drudkh seems to be the poetic and almost exhilarating face of Saenko, Hate Forest is, on the contrary, his wild beast using the shape of the Black Metal, an execrable and sadistic weapon sacrificed to his cause. The discography of the group is a burning of incredible hatred and through texts relating to the themes of human (not to say racial) elitism or Nietzschean ideology, the search for supreme hatred starts on good bases. Yet Saenko evokes these themes subtly enough to let an ambiguity hover around his project. Hate Forest, affiliated by its observers with the National Socialist movement, swarming into many black metal groups in eastern Europe, never falls into the explicit assertion of membership of this type of movement, making it a "except" group. Born in Ukraine, the vast creation of a madman gave birth to his first pieces in 1995. He follows many EPs, albums, minis best-of, including Scythia (1999) , The Most Ancient One (2001) and Purity (2003), which are truly representative of the group's very compact work, and which, moreover, has no real evolution, but rather makes a hard-on source of raw black inspiration, whose only evil seems to control what comes out of it. Yet Battlefields (2003) is a real experiment apart from the band, where Ukrainian folk songs serve the despair of a black/doom with almost pagan but always amp of hatred. This record remains to date the only drift of Hate Forest's discography and it is in 2005, with Sorrow that the band seems to have returned soul. Indeed, many noises run across Europe like that it would be their last record. However, the group will have been one of the spearheads of this black metal movement from the countries of the former USSR, and remains an example of success (in all relativity of course) acquired through word of mouth.
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