Hate Forest – Scythia (1999)

July 29, 2024

On today’s episode of black metal that sounds suspiciously like goregrind, we have the first (I think?) Hate Forest demo, Scythia. I have always appreciated Hate Forest’s super heavy low register vocals and uncompromising approach to black metal, but that approach is pared back to its most base and inferal core here on this debut. Frenetic drum machines act as a backbone to a sludge of – let’s be fair, quite melodic – riffs, topped with pitchshifted, gloopy, mysterious vocals. An unusual combination, but I like it. Evil shit!