Hate is again with a model new file Bellum Regiis due out Might 2 and a brand new single “Iphigenia” streaming proper now alongside a music video directed by Błażej Jankowiak.
On the one, Hate vocalist and guitarist ATF Sinner mentioned “in Greek mythology, Iphigenia was the daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and a princess of Mycenae. The music got here first on this case, however there was an instantaneous have to fill with content material and the story of Iphigenia appeared to attach with it fantastically.
“It is a story about sacrificing your life for a better trigger. However the instance of Iphigenia is hanging as a result of she at one level is given a alternative and may save her personal life, but she decides to be put to demise and on this method assist help the Greek facet within the Trojan Warfare. It is a story of sacrifice which might, all the way in which because the days of Aeschylus and Euripides, divide an viewers of listeners.
“Is it monstrous of her father to be prepared to sacrifice her because of the strain of his generals? To appease Artemis? Is it then heroic or brainwashed that she would sacrifice herself for her folks’s trigger?”
Bellum Regiis was produced by David Castillo (Candlemass, Carcass, Darkish Tranquillity, Katatonia) at Stockholm’s Grondahl Studio. Pre-orders are available here.
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