小简介
Hatesphere并不是在“时髦”的潮流中诞生出的一支新晋Nu-Thrash 乐队，尽管他们的音乐听上去颇具“时尚”的味道。乐队从1993年组建至今，他们的风格也随着时间的推移而逐渐转变着。总体来讲，Hatesphere的音乐是以传统Thrash Metal作为根基，以新派的嘶吼式唱法作为主导唱腔，同时将瑞典哥德堡式的吉他solo加以精炼简化，并运用迅猛强悍的鼓的演奏作为整体铺垫的。乐队拥有着自己稳定的步伐，从2001年开始，他们在每一年都有新专辑或EP推出。而在2005年中，乐手们的创作力更是异常丰富，一张EP与一张专辑的成功发行令人满意，可见，Hatesphere已经越来越成为丹麦金属界最具代表性的乐队之一。丹麦另一支金属核乐队Raunchy的鼓手Morten Toft Hansen曾在2000年至2003年效力于Hatesphere。
Denmark's Hatesphere is one of a handful of bands reigniting the flame of '80s speed metal by way of the so-called Scandinavian neo-thrash movement (spearheaded by the likes of Arch Enemy and the Haunted). Started as Cauterized in 1993 by Danish high-school chums Claus Nielsen (vocals), Peter Lyse Hansen (guitar), Frantz Dhin (guitar), and Jesper Moesgaard (drums), the group underwent various transformations (quickly adopting the new moniker of Necrosis and continually exchanging personnel) over the ensuing decade, issuing several heavily traded demos along the way.
Finally stabilizing into the lineup of Hansen, Moesgaard, vocalist Jacob Bredahl, guitarist Ziggy, and bassist Mikael Ehlert Hansen, the newly renamed Hatesphere found a home with Italy's Scarlet Records for the release of their eponymous debut album in 2000, and 2002's Bloodred Hatred. The latter saw the replacement of Moesgaard with new drummer Morten Toft Hansen (that's right, another Hansen), but otherwise held steady in the band's part trash, part death metal, and part neo-thrash hybrid style, gaining them a small following along the way. But there were more changes ahead for Hatesphere, who, after replacing Ziggy with guitarist Henrik Jacobsen and welcoming yet another new drummer in Anders Gyldenøhr, managed only an EP named Something Old, Something New in 2003. They returned to full force in 2004, however, unleashing their potent third album, Ballet of the Brute, in North America through famed metal indie Nuclear Blast Records.