Hate Squad

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Hate Squad
Hate Squad (2018)
Hate Squad (2018)
General information
origin Hanover (Germany)
Genre (s) Thrash metal , metalcore
founding April 18, 1993
Website www.hatesquad.com
Founding members
singing
 Burkhard Schmitt
guitar
 Tim Baurmeister (until 1996)
bass
 Robert Radeka (until 1995)
Drums
 Helge Dolgener
Current occupation
singing
 Burkhard Schmitt
Electric guitar
 Mark Künnemann
Electric guitar
 Marcel Griese-Kwaśnik (since 2012)
Electric bass
 Bauke De Groot (since 1995)
Drums
 Helge Dolgener

Hate Squad (German: Hasskommando ) is a German thrash metal and hardcore band from Hanover , Lower Saxony . She is considered a pioneer of metal core in Germany.

Band history

Hate Squad is a German metal band founded in 1993 that played a relatively unknown mixture of hardcore and thrash metal at the time. Just five months after its formation, the band recorded the first demo , which led to a recording contract with GUN Records shortly after its release . In 1994 the debut album Theater of Hate was released . On June 2, 1995, Hate Squad played on the tent stage at the 10th anniversary festival of Dynamo Open Air in the Netherlands . The festival had almost 120,000 visitors and the performance was the highlight of their career so far. They were also voted “Newcomer of the Year” by “ VIVA Metalla” in 1995.

In October 1995 their second album IQ Zero was released . The music videos for Not my God and IQ Zero were shown at the Headbangers Ball on MTV and on “Viva Metalla”. A tour with Kreator , Grip_Inc , followed. and pyogenesis , which is why singer Burkhard Schmitt quit his job as a promoter at SPV . The EP Sub Zero - The Remixes , released in 1996 , on which Die Krupps , The Speed ​​Freak and Alec Empire re-mixed Hate Squad material, met with a rather mixed response from fans and music critics.

Founding member Tim Baurmeister left the band before the third studio album was recorded and joined the Ryker’s as a guitarist . Nevertheless Pzyco appeared ! in April 1997 and showed the band stylistically developed. Singer Schmitt had a good vocal performance and the guitarists were certified as having greatly improved guitar work.

After the record contract with GUN Records expired in 1997, it was quiet for a while until the comeback album H8 for the Masses was released in 2004 . In 2008 the fifth studio album, Degüello Wartunes , was released on the German label Dockyard 1 for the band's 15th anniversary . Marcus Bischoff ( Heaven Shall Burn ) and Timo Böhling ( Maintain ) contributed some guest vocals to the album .

Discography

  • 1994: Theater of Hate (GUN Records)
  • 1995: IQ Zero (GUN Records)
  • 1996: Sub Zero - The Remixes EP (GUN Records)
  • 1997: Pzyco! (GUN Records)
  • 2004: H8 for the Masses ( Swell Creek Records )
  • 2008: Degüello Wartunes (Dockyard 1)
  • 2011: Katharsis (Massacre Records)
  • 2013: You Are Not My Fuckin 'God (Best of 20 Years of Raging Hate) (Swell Creek Records)
  • 2018: Reborn from Ashes (Massacre Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pioneers of German Metalcore, Heaven Shall Burn in an interview .
  2. ↑ MetalInside.de: Band: Hate Squad. Retrieved August 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Kupfer: Review of “Pzyco!” In: RockHard Magazin . No. 120 .
  4. ^ Schweres-Metall.de: Hate Squad - Deguello 1993 Wartunes. Retrieved August 9, 2019 .