HaatE Interview

1.For those that have never heard of you before, can you tell us a little bit about the musical project?
HaatE is a project I created to make strange and experimental music. The kind of music that always remains in the underground, but that I really like it and I really needed to play.

2.Recently you have released your first album, how would you describe the musical sound that is presented on the recording?
Well, this album sounds very ambient and atmospheric, dark and gloomy but with a glimpse of hope on its path. I also like to put inside few elements of black metal, like screams and blast beats drums.

3.On the album while it was mostly ambient you also added in a few black metal screams in some sections, do you feel this gives your music a darker edge?
Yes, I do. Mainly because black metal is one of my favorite genres of music.

4.What are some of the themes and concepts you bring out with your music?
The themes on this album are completely based on nature, solitude and emptiness.

5.What is the meaning and inspiration behind the name 'HaatE'?
I wanted to name this project Haate Crystal, in honor of Wolves In The Throne Room. (They named a song “Hate Crystal”, I only wanted to add an “a” inside it), but working on the logo I thought that only HaatE looked best. So that’s it.
Afterwards I decided to name the 2nd song of the album “Crystal”, you can imagine why.

6.With this project you work all solo do you feel this gives you the freedom to be more creative with your music?
Absolutely I do. I cannot imagine Haate in any other way than a solo project.

7.The new album is going to be released on SixSixSix Music, how did you get in contact with this label and also how would you describe the support they have given you so far?
Well, I have known Steve, from SixSixSix Music, via Facebook, he contacted me for a compilation he was doing at the time. We’ve been in touch the past few months and finally, when I had this album done I submitted it to Steve. He enjoyed the album and he agreed to release my work under his label.
I can only be grateful towards Steve, he’s helping me a lot.

8.On a worldwide level how has the feedback been to your music by fans of dark ambient?
This work of mine is brand new, so I didn’t get so much feedback yet. But it’s going very well so far.

9.Are you also involved with any other musical projects?
Yes, I am. But I’m not gonna tell you their names.
I really want to keep it separate from those projects of mine.

10.Where do you see this project heading into musically during the future?
I’ll try to evolve my music. I don’t really want to be stuck in a single genre. I’m already writing some new stuff, but they’re still mere ideas, nothing concrete yet.
But probably my next work will sound more than a bit different to this album.

11.What are some of the bands or musical styles that have had an influence on your music and also what are you listening to nowadays?
Well, this album was very influenced by music of Lustre, Elderwind, Ulver, Wolves In The Throne Room and Sunn O))).
While nowadays I’m listening closely to Nebula Orionis, Naglfar and also WITTR’s latest album.

12.What are some of your non musical interests?
Not much beside music. Sorry.



13.Before we wrap up this interview do you have any final words or thoughts?
I really want to thanks Steve from SixSixSix Music who has believed in my project, and to everyone who supports me.
If you want you can join my facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/darkhaate

Thanks for the chance you’ve given me to spread the word.

HaatE/As The Moon Painted Her Grief/SixSixSix Music/2014 EP Review

  HaatE  are  a  1  man  band  that  plays  dark  ambient  that  is  influenced  by  black  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  his  2014  ep  "As  The  Moon  Painted  Her  Grief"  which  will  be  released  by  SixSixSix  Music.

  Noises  and  a  few  seconds  of  silence  starts  off  the  ep  and  a  few   seconds  later  melodic  chanting  and  synths  are  added  onto  the  recording  which  leads  to  a  more  atmospheric  dark  ambient  musical  direction  along  with  some  programmed  drum  beats  and  a  few  minutes  later  harsh  noises  start  coming  into  the  music  briefly.

  Grim  black  metal  screams  can  be  heard  in  certain  sections  of  the  recording  along  with  a  small  amount  of  drones  and  each  track  is  very  long  and  epic  in  length  and  on  the  second  song  is  very  atmospheric  and  experimental  ambient  and  the  synths  also  add  in  elements  of  neo  classical  at  times  along  with  some  elements  of  space  and  progressive  rock,  the  last  track  has  a  dark   atmosphere that  you  can  hear  on  some  of  the  atmospheric  and  ambient  black  metal  albums.

  HaaatE  creates  a  very  interesting  dark  ambient  sound  that  also  uses  a  small  amount  of  black  metal  vocals  and  the  music  also  evokes  an  occultic  atmosphere  at  times,  the  production  sounds  very  dark  and  powerful  while  the  concept  of  the  music  is  very  dark  and  depressive.

  In  my  opinion  HaatE  are  a  very  great  sounding  dark  ambient  project  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  this  musical  genre,  you  should  check  out  this  ep.  RECOMMENDED  TRACK  "Crystal".  8/5  out  of  10.

https://haate.bandcamp.com/