Bellum Regiis

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!”