Hateful agony

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Hateful agony
General information
origin Munich , Germany
Genre (s) Thrash metal
founding 1997
Website www.hatefulagony.de

Hateful Agony is a German thrash metal band that was founded in 1997.

history

A year after its founding, the band in 1998 with Alcoholocaust a demo on which of the black metal - label At War Records (u a.. Judas Iscariot was published).

This was followed by two self- published albums, Existence Is Punishment (2000) and Black Hole (2003) , before the band was able to split up with Evil Offering ( United by Thrash & Beer !!! ) via Kuravilu Productions in 2004 .

The third and fourth studio albums ( Obey and In the Name of God ) were released in 2005 and 2008, and the compilations Speed ​​Metal Massacre (2007) and Existence Is Punishment / Alcoholocaust (2009) were released via Infernal Overkill Productions and Alucard Records , respectively .

In 2012 the band self- published the work Forward into Doom . Three years later it was - added three bonus tracks - of Violent Creek Records , a sub-label of Swell Creek Records , re-released .

At the end of 2017 the band recorded the album Plastic Culture Pestilence in the Grotesque Studios (release date summer 2018), on which the singers Andre Grieder ( Poltergeist ), Burkhard Schmitt ( Hate Squad ) and Chris Zenk (ex- Erosion ) have guest appearances.

Founding member and only constant since 1998 is drummer Tom. In the six-year phase between the fifth album Forward into Doom and the sixth album Plastic Culture Pestilence alone , the line-up was "completely changed twice (!)", As Totentanz magazine states.

style

The band plays a variant of Thrash Metal as it was popular "in the eighties and early nineties". Destruction and Forbidden or Testament , Slayer or Kreator are named as references .

live

In 2016 the band went on a tour with the Canadian group Aggression , which led through nine European countries (in addition to Germany, France, the Netherlands, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Italy).

Following the release of the 2018 album Plastic Culture Pestilence , another European tour followed with the British thrash metal band Virus , which took Hateful Agony to Germany and Italy through the Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland.

In addition, the band played a number of individual concerts with bands such as Flotsam and Jetsam , Antipeewee , Ratos de Porão or Steel Engraved and StormHammer as well as events such as the "Taunus Metal Festival" (with Stallion , Fatal Embrace and Space Chaser ) .

reception

Jürgen Tschamler, long-time author of Break Out , stated regarding the 2018 work on Streetclip.de:

"Here you combine old school blasts with youthful speed and drive mostly at full throttle. [...] An unspectacular, but solid slaughter festival, which is consistently based on the Thrash Metal specifications of the old guard, but gains enormously in efficiency with the youthful, modern élan. "

- Jürgen Tschamler : streetclip.de

The editor of Metal Hammer summed up much more positively

“Anyone who likes intelligently arranged, strongly riffing, not too melodic Thrash should take a closer look at this album. The southern Germans swing a decent club - the toad-like, maddening voice of front man Jul does the rest. "

- Marc Halupczok : metal-hammer.de

The reviewer of the Totentanz Magazin finds "something to complain about [...] at most at various very daring breaks that could even throw the experienced headbanger out of the rhythm", but the listening pleasure is hardly diminished:

“Old-school Thrash still reigns supreme, it squinting in the direction of Demolition Hammer and never shed its charming rumble factor. Anyone who has had fun with the previous albums of the Munich Thrash squadron can therefore access it without hesitation. "

- Pacifier : Totentanz magazine

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.hatefulagony.de/dt/bandinfo.html
  2. ↑ a b c Arthur: Hateful Agony publish “Plastic Culture Pestillence on August 17th! In: metalglory.com. June 18, 2018. Retrieved August 19, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Holger Ziegler: Totentanz-Magazin - Hateful Agony - Plastic Culture Pestilence. In: totentanz-magazin.de. July 22, 2018, accessed August 30, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Jürgen Tschamler: HATEFUL AGONY - Plastic Culture Pestilence. In: streetclip.de. June 29, 2018. Retrieved August 19, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Sandra “Piggy” Baumgartl: Flotsam And Jetsam + Bliksem + Hateful Agony, Munich, May 25, 2015. In: sound-infection.de. May 28, 2015. Retrieved August 19, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Hateful Agony: Facebook post of October 23, 2016, accessed August 19, 2018.
  7. ↑ Virus / Hateful Agony - Tour 2018 - Flyer in the Deaf Forever forum , July 9, 2018, accessed August 19, 2018.
  8. ↑ Thrashnobyl III (May 7th, 2016): Antipeewee - Hateful Agony - Blake's Vengeance - Disintegrator - Paxtilence, Ballonfabrik Augsburg. In: chillweek.com. May 7, 2016. Retrieved August 19, 2018 .
  9. ↑ RATOS DE PORAO + HATEFUL AGONY + MUTARD. In: munich.eventful.com. Retrieved August 25, 2018 .
  10. ↑ history. (No longer available online.) In: mrw-concerts.de. November 17, 2007, archived from the original on August 18, 2018 ; accessed on August 19, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mrw-concerts.de
  11. ↑ Michael Toscher: TAUNUS METAL FESTIVAL X - Oberursel. In: ffm-rock.de. April 6, 2018. Retrieved August 19, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Marc Halupczok: Review: Hateful Agony - PLASTIC CULTURE PESTILENCE. In: metal-hammer.de . August 17, 2018. Retrieved August 19, 2018 .