Hate – Bellum Regiis LP

(Description from Metal Blade)

With a dozen ferocious and lauded albums since 1996’s Daemon Qui Fecit Terra, Hate’s lucky thirteenth album, Bellum Regiis, sees the unrelenting Polish quartet forging a bolder and more aggressive style than ever. Bellum Regiis’ nine songs see vocalist/guitarist ATF Sinner, guitarist  Domin, drummer Nar-Sil, and bassist Tiermes honing a modern sound rife with eerie atmosphere and depth. Produced by David Castillo (Candlemass, Carcass, Dark Tranquility, Katatonia) at Stockholm’s Grondahl Studio, Bellum Regiis is lyrically a more “humanity focused and personal” album than Rugia. Bellum Regiis’ songs, explains founder Sinner, are a timely aural and visual exploration of “a struggle for power and everything that comes with it.”

More than three decades into a stellar career, Bellum Regiis finds Sinner as profound and poetic than ever, if not more so. To wit, “A Ghost of Lost Delight,” a song possessed of a strange melancholy and meditation. Delving into the cycles of life and death, Hate ultimately offer a powerful and positive entreaty for hope in dark times, as pertinent in 2025 as in eons past. As Sinner sings: “In darkness we crawl toward the starlight / In a race against the flow / We saved our world from oblivion / Ghosts of lost delight… now live!” 

Gatefold, Insert, Download Card
Track Listing:
Side A
Bellum Regiis
Iphigenia
The Vanguard
A Ghost of Lost Delight
Side B
Rite of Triglav
Perun Rising
Alfa Inferi Goddess of War
Prophet of Arkhen
Ageless Harp of Devilry