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Against All Odds

Album Review: Hate Forest – Against All Odds

After a 15-year pause in full-length releases, Ukrainian iconoclast by the very act of drawing breath HATE FOREST returned with 2020’s Hour Of The Centaur. Reconfigured as a solitary entity, this HATE FOREST showed no lowering of quality, still – and perhaps even more – steadfast and commanding in its commitment to be true to none but itself. Concluding what began with EPs Sowing With Salt and Justice, Against All Odds arrives. The presence of live drums for the first time on a HATE FOREST album is announced with a turret-mounted machine gun in ‘Werewolves’. Inhuman in its sheer speed, […]