Negative-Existence - INFIINITE HATRED "Hateful Spell" CD

INFIINITE HATRED "Hateful Spell" CD
[KZCD001]

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Artist: INFIINITE HATRED

Title: Hateful Spell

Format: CD

Country: Korea

Genre: Black Metal

Record Label: Kerzakraum

Infinite Hatred pedal grim, lo-fi BM with a tinny sound and admirably minimal production values. Their debut album veers between proficient and stunning but remains enjoyable at all times. One-minute guitar-based intro ‘Night Bringer’ sets the scene nicely for six helpings of undiluted, untreated evilness from the East. Tracks average around the six-minute mark, commencing with the catchy marker ‘Forest of the Black Shadow’ and giving way to the simplistic wizardry of ‘Black Metal Warlord’ – a stomping exhibition of addictive controlled chaos that weaves its way eerily into your subconscious!!!!

Tracklisting:

1. Night Bringer
2. Forest Of Black Shadow
3. Black Metal Warlord
4. Infinite Hatred
5. Satanic Vortex
6. Unholy Eclipse
7. Hateful Spell

Review:

review by: Mladen Škot [Maelstrom]
The Western world is becoming spoiled, especially when talking about black metal. Just go to an average black metal forum and see them whining about how all the good stuff was recorded before 1995, how all of the BM bands sound the same today and so on. Everyone knows everything about their favorite "underground" bands and the mystery is gone.

Well, in the East, it is not quite so. Without any significant "overground" activity, everything is more or less underground, with all the mystery and enthusiasm that go with it. So, imagine getting a CD from South Korea with an illegible logo, silly song titles ("Night Bringer," "Forest of Black Shadow," "Black Metal Warlord") and messages all over the booklet, such as "We want this album will be used for fuck to all kinds of religion, religious-cranks and posers." Can it be any good? Hell, yeah!

Depending on where on the CD you look, the band is called either Infinite Hatred or Infiinite Hatred and the sole member is Helnakstav, who used to be in Hell (Korea) and Qrujhuk (who???). Hateful Spell is the first official release after two demos. It was recorded in 2003 and remastered in 2006.

Although Burzum is an obvious influence, comparing the two is nowhere near fair. The atmosphere is somewhat similar: despair, bleakness and desolation, but in Infiinite Hatred's case there is an omnipresent feeling of pure, hateful, antisocial, maniacal madness. And of a frenzied, possessed kind at that. Imagine one or two simple riffs (That most Burzum clones would kill for... Pun intended. Do not take literally.) being repeated into infinity without ever becoming boring and bringing up images of an obsessed lunatic, sitting somewhere and playing the hell out of them until he has exorcised all the demons in his mind — and then some. Utterly hypnotic and at times curious, not only because the guitar tone often ends up sounding like a violin.

Then, there is the percussion. Whether it's triggered or programmed, the devilish rhythms are completely illogical and ever changing, always bringing new meanings to the guitar leads, keeping the tempo up and persistently beating the listener into submission. Whatever the drums were influenced by, it was very unholy and there was plenty of it. The distant vocals are merciless, screaming the lyrics (sadly not in the booklet) or just screaming for the hell of it. And, yes, again, possessed.

Dear black metal freaks, while you're still crying for the glory days of 1993, Satan has moved to the East.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 04 May, 2010.

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