Band: Hatred

Title: Blasphemous Deliverance

Label: Deity Down Records

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Release date: March 2008

Review: CD

The pretty young Dutch label Deity Down Records releases the first full length studio album by Hatred , a formation from the Netherlands that was born nine years ago (January 1999). Two self-released mini-albums, Hatred (2000) and Chaos In The Flesh (2003), and several superb gigs in Europe (e.g. supporting Lord Belial , Vader , Grave and Suffocation ), created an enormous fan base, which convinced the band to continue the path they took: a path of brutal, intense and powerful Death Metal! In May last year, after a new singer joined ( Koen Dingemans from Stronghold , by the way), Hatred entered the famous Excess Studio ( Thanatos , Brutus , Seth , Severe Torture , Gorefest and many others) with Hans Pieters in Rotterdam for the recording of their official full length debut album. The Excess Studio , indeed, that's why the sound is raw and brutal, yet full at the same time. In the vein of both former recordings, Blasphemous Deliverance brings pretty refreshing yet extremely harsh mid-tempo Death Metal with groovy and technical song structures. The firm and powerful songs are overwhelming, yet without exaggerating one single moment. And even though Hatred do combine elements from the Dutch and American scene, this band does certainly come with an own approach, an own face. Doomy parts go well together with a few accelerations, and intensity does have the perfect marriage with technical skilling. Blasphemous Deliverance certainly is not the most renewing recording in years, yet it is a highly acceptable one! One of the best Dutch Death Metal debuts ever, that's for sure.

84/100

Ivan Tibos.