Hate Eternal Fury & Flames
Hate Eternal’s follow-up to their 2005 album I, Monarch is just as brutal as the last. There are an unrelenting amount of kinetic blast beats, and double kicks abound. The St. Petersburg, Florida based quartet never let up on their style of extreme death metal. From the opening track “Hell Envemon” onwards, the songs, for the most part, tend to bleed together. (No pun intended.) As with many death metal bands, Hate Eternal’s tracks suffer from monotony. With hardly any peaks and valleys to grab on to, it is just a straight plain of drop C tuning played over low guttural screams. The only exception is the last song “Coronach,” which is the typical symphonic intro/outro (placed where one sees fit). Different, but not exactly original. It’s not that Fury & Flames doesn’t have its merits. You can’t deny that Jade Simonetto does some brilliant drumming. It’s just that barring a few interesting instrumentations, each song could have easily passed for the one before it.