It really is an age of being spoiled for choice as much as music is concerned these days. However, as Toilet Ov Hell so aptly describes in this premiere for the Will Crushing Wheel track by Italian technical death metal band Hateful, some music truly stands out as spectacular even for the age it is present in. Taken from the band’s ‘Set Forever On Me’ full length, you can read more and check out the track AT THIS LINK. Excerpt:
‘A large part of their sound hearkens back to earlier ’90s death metal as you might imagine especially with its complex Suffocation style structures and pummeling drumming, yet it manages to sound fresher than what passes for OSDM as well as their techy compatriots.’
| – “authentic Technical Death Metal at its best” – Dioses del Metal (Spain) – “one crushing release filled with technical brilliance” – Infernal Masquerade (US) 91/100 – “this is a must” – Rock ‘N’ Load (UK) 9/10 – “an uncompromising technical death metal tsunami” – Deadly Storm (Czech Republic) – “recommend it highly to all lovers of heavy music” – VM Underground (Netherlands) – “a great presentation of the talent” – Headbanger Reviews (US) – “a record that acts fast but works you slowly” – Disfactory (Italy) |
Hateful (Italy) – Set Forever On Me (September 25th, 2020)
Genre – Technical Death Metal
Release Date – September 25th, 2020
Record Label – Transcending Obscurity Records
For fans of – Gorguts, Immolation, Disincarnate, Cerebrum, Suffocaiton, Spawn of Possession, Archspire, Deeds of Flesh
Italian death metal masters Hateful have created a mind-bending album of epic proportions. They’ve constructed dizzying structures by piling riffs and drum patterns atop one another with delirious fervour and surgical precision. It includes elements of the early technical death metal bands like Atheist, Gorguts, Disincarnate and Death, powerful brutal coagulants such as Suffocation and Deeds of Flesh, and even the kinetic, ever-changing properties of bands like Spawn of Possession and Necrophagist. There’s just so much to unravel as a listener and it’s a rare treat, for Hateful take their time fleshing out the parts and seeing to their fulfillment, rather than rushing blindly through it all without making any rhythmic sense or retaining a semblance of coherence. This is a thinking man’s death metal where the core sound isn’t mutated abnormally nor is the brutality mitigated and yet it incorporates intricate, highly challenging structures, Immolation-esque complexity and dissonance, and exhibits maddening dexterity and endless album replay value. Seven years in the making, Hateful‘s hugely awaited album complements contemporary death metal label mates in Depravity, Atræ Bilis, Sepulchral Curse and Cutterred Flesh and even technical death metal champions Chaos Motion, Cerebrum, Coexistence and The Scalar Process.
Band lineup –
Daniele Lupidi (Valgrind, Voids of Vomit) – Bass, Vocals and Rhythm Guitars
Massimo Vezzani (Voids of Vomit) – Lead and Rhythm Guitars
Marcello Malagoli (Blood of Seklusion) – Drums and Vocals
Track listing –
1. On the Brink of the Ravine
2. Oxygen Catastrophe
3. Phosphenes
4. The Irretrievable Dissolution Process on the Shores of Time
5. Will-Crushing Wheel
6. Caldera
7. Time Flows Differently
8. Our Gold Shined in Vain
9. The Nihil Truth
10. River’s Breath
11. The Proof
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