Candlelight Records today confirms January 13 as the North American release date for Hateful Abandon’s album titled, Liars/Bastards. Cvlt Nation previewed the release explaining “…one needn’t have any knowledge of the band’s black metal roots to enjoy the music, which stands on its own as excellent dark synth/industrial/postpunk.” Formats will include CD and digital (iTunes, Spotify). The label plans to release the band’s earlier recordings during 2015 with a new full-length album planned to follow.
Hateful Abandon is Tom ‘Swine’ Price on drums, percussion, bass, guitar, backing vocals, synth, programming and sampling and Martin ‘Vice Martyr’ Brindley on lead vocals, bass, guitar and effects. The band formed in 2004 and is based in the U.K. (Bristol). The current release, Liars/Bastards, was produced by the band and engineered and mixed by Price at his studio called The Compound, in Somerset, England. “Liars/Bastards is a painfully honest soundtrack to our current world,” Price says about the new record. “We’re dealing with hidden esoteric truths, paranoia, loss, love and hate.”
“The album cover is an accidental nod to Crass” Brindley confirms. “It was originally created to go behind the CD tray, but Candlelight recognized how iconic it looked and wanted it for the cover. Crass are a big influence of mine.” The band offers a glimpse into the album with their list of shared influences, including old Killing Joke, Godflesh, Dead Can Dance, Blade Runner Original Soundtrack, Swans, Burzum, Einsturzende Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle, Public image Ltd, Cabaret Voltaire, Mark E. Smith, Crass, Amebix, DAF, Dub, old Black Metal, John Peel, old Skinny Puppy, Black Sabbath, power electronics, The Road (film), Animal Farm, haunting traditional Kurdish calls, ancient factories and high rising concrete scabs.
“Hateful Abandon make a clean break from the minimalism of their Thatcher-era forebears” Metal Underground recently posted “and instead weave a dense and intricate web of sounds from the same lexicon. By this strange alchemy, Hateful Abandon manages to summon a simultaneous sense of spaciousness and claustrophobia that makes for a novel and unnerving listen.” Long time supporter Zero Tolerance Magazine writes “[the] psychic landscape here is one of crumbling urban decay, post-industrial ennui giving rise to shout-it-from-rooftops anger.”
The eight tracks on Liars/Bastards are 1. “Maze of Bastards,” 2. “Culprit,” 3. “High Rise,” 4. “The Test,” 5. “The Walker,” 6. “There Will Never be Peace,” and 7. “December.” Visit the band online at facebook.com/hatefulabandon or twitter.com/HATEFULABANDON.
