FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
METAL BLADE RECORDS signs HATE ETERNAL!
I'm very please to announce that Metal Blade Records has just signed a worldwide deal with Death Metal Legends, Hate Eternal.

Formed in 1997, Hate Eternal's goal has always been to challenge musical limitations and create new boundaries with no compromise; to obtain goals aimed at by many yet reached by only a select few; to create music that not only defies all clichés, but that creates a true sense of power, dissonance and consonance, heaviness and speed, melody and brutality, simply put horrific hymns. Guitarist Erik Rutan has crafted an impressive career by attaining that goal consistently for well over a decade with his legendary work in Ripping Corpse and Morbid Angel. Not to mention his other career as engineer/ producer for bands such as Cannibal Corpse, Soilent Green, Six Feet Under, Cellador, Vital Remains, Premonitions of War, Goatwhore and Into the Moat just to name a few, and the list goes on.

Metal Blade Records owner/CEO, Brian Slagel, had this comment:
"I am truly honored to be working with Hate Eternal. They are a legendary band and I am so happy to welcome them to the Metal Blade Family." - Brian Slagel

Hate Eternal guitarist, Erik Rutan, had this to say regarding their signing:
"Signing to Metal Blade for us reconfirms that all the hard work, blood, sweat and tears we have put into the band has been worth every single moment. This is completely amazing. We know we will forge on with all the support and confidence a band can ask for from their record label. We are proud to be a part of the hugely successful Metal Blade Family and look forward to bringing our music to the next level." - Erik Rutan

Hate Eternal is currently in the writing process for the follow-up to their 2005 release "I, Monarch" that shall be recorded at Rutan's own Mana Recording Studios in June/July 2007.

http://www.hateeternal.com
http://www.myspace.com/haeteternal
http://www.metalblade.com

Sick.

hopefully its more thought out than I, Monarch.

Awesome... who will be drumming on the new one?

They should bring Roddy back in, just for the studio work.

hate eternal blows

Hate Eternal are so boring. Why does Rutan waste his time with H.E. when he should be busy putting Ripping Corpse back together!

Kinslayer said:

This statement is 100% true.

"Hate Eternal's goal has always been to challenge musical limitations and create new boundaries with no compromise"

yea thats why I monarch didn't sound any different than King of All Kings! Hate Eternal and Nile need to call it quites.

i will agree that Hate Eternal isnt nearly what its cracked up to be. however with Nile, they did nothing but far exceed expectations with Annihilation of the Wicked. after the less than mediocre Black Seeds of Vengeance and the quasi-good In Their Darkened Shrines, Annihilation was a leap into ludicrious speed.

You people are all crazy. I Monarch really does not sound like King of All Kings. I don't get that at all.

As for Nile, Black Seeds was better than ITDS but Annihilation blows them both out of the water.

Ripping Corpse, for all intents and purposes, are still an active band. They're called Dim Mak. That's where those musicians are at now, they'll never go back and write another 'Dreaming with the Dead'

Dim Mak is insanely sick though, so no loss.

Kinslayer sumed it up

Head! Pants! Now!

I, Monarch is a great album.

Why are we comparing them to Nile in this thread? They are 2 totally different bands.

ConquerTheBaphomet said:

Cause they're two overrated boring death metal bands.

True.

I know they are overrated.

hooray for metal blade, dipping into the same boring pool of semi-popular, overrated bands that have been dragging thier feet for the last few years. speaking of nile, i hope metal blade signs them next, followed by shadows fall, deicide and god forbid. instead of, you know, signing fresh bands with great ideas and music.

the only thing good mentioned in this thread is dim mak.

ps: buy the new martyr, element, defeated sanity, ulcerate, beneath the massacre and agalloch cds. they all fucking rip. well maybe not agalloch, but it's amazing doom metal and will depress the shit out of you, almost as much as knowing metal blade is still around.

a band thats not a cookie cutter metalcore band gets signed to metal blade?
kudos to metal blade

tomx nli said:

Martyr is on a level of it's own

DS and Element are pretty fucking sick. Ulcerate are not quite at that level but theyre good.

BTM is fucking boring as all hell after a while. Hate Eternal write way better songs than those dudes.

You forgot the new Odious Mortem, that is gonna blow everything else out of the water this year.

oop! i totally forgot about odious mortem. thier new stuff thats floating around is pretty killer. also lets not forget new decrepit birth. PUMPED.

Anthony said:

I don't know about that dude, Erik Rutan writes some pretty shitty songs.

I dunno man, I'm a big fan of Erik and HE and I dont agree with that at all. Opinions dont mean anything anyways.

w/e just personal preference, I just cant listen to them for more than 10 minutes. some stuff on Conquering the Throne is pretty cool tho

i think the rutan is pretty fucking sick. im def a HE fan, and im not worried about how popular or overated they are procieved to be.

metalblade is pretty gay though and i agree with others who have shat on their M.O. as a label.

the new odious mortem is gonna be sick!
defeated sanity is sick, BUT SO IS INHERIT DISEASE!!

how about the contrast between
the new decrepit birth shiznit vs. 'and time begins?!'
the old shit was fucking brutal, blistering, hyperspeed fucking illness.

then new shit seems to be more chuck schuldiner inspired
with lots of melodic runs and shit.
to me it kinda sounds long winded and a little pretentious....
i dunno, to others it might sound sik and refreshing..............anyone?

i guess i was hoping for something in the same vein as ATB.

i'm finding that if i see a cd released by Metal Blade it deters me from buying it.

so you're saying the new Amon Amarth isnt good because its out on MB? i dont know...

no no, i'm not saying all, but its happened more than once. however the new Amon Amarth is fucking outrageous.

i almost though it was nigh-impossible to be epic without blaring keyboards and super high pitched vibratos... but i guess i was wrong. the new AA is probably one of the most epic albums i have ever heard.