Acts of Hate is the 2009 album by German melodic death metal

Melodic death metal

Melodic death metal is a heavy metal music style that combines elements from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with elements of death metal. The style was developed during the early and mid-1990s, primarily in England and Scandinavia...

 band Soul Demise

Soul Demise

Soul Demise is a German death metal band from Neumarkt in Bavaria, founded in 1993 as Inhuman. Their musical style is mainly influenced by Swedish band At The Gates and their Göteborg sound....

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A promotional clip for the album's opener, "The Tempest", was included to Maximum Metal Vol. 138 by German magazine Metal Hammer

Metal Hammer

Metal Hammer is a monthly heavy metal music magazine published in the United Kingdom by Future Publishing, and in several other countries by different publishers. Metal Hammer articles feature both mainstream bands and more unusual acts from the whole spectrum of heavy metal music...

, while the album itself features a clip for "Evidence of Spoken Words".

Background

It took the band four years to release a follow-up to 2005's applauded album Blind. Acts of Hate is the first album to feature new members Michael Dauscher on bass and Jan Sotiriu on drums.

Reception

Dominik Winter of Metal Hammer gave the release high points, calling the band "the Swedish Germans in the metal circus" and especially recognizing Roman Zimmerhackel's vocals. This was backed up by the review in Legacy, laying its attention on the compositions of the "Bavarian Swedes", stating that they ultimately stepped out of the shadow of their idols, At the Gates

At the Gates

At the Gates is an extreme metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, and a major progenitor of the Gothenburg death-metal sound. Their early albums lean towards a death metal sound, but later albums sound more like melodic death metal.Initially active from 1990 to 1996, the band reformed in 2007 for a...

. Other specialist publications were in the same vein.

Track listing

1. "The Tempest"
2. "Day of Reckoning"
3. "Evidence of Spoken Words"
4. "Six Billion"
5. "Commit Suicide"
6. "Acted Out of Hate"
7. "Time Wasted is Time Lost"
8. "A Reason For Dying" (instrumental)
9. "The Game"
10. "Crows Gown"
11. "Slight Hope"
12. "In Blind Human Hate" (instrumental)
13. "Evidence of Spoken Words" (video clip)

Personnel

• Roman Zimmerhackel – vocals
• Andreas Schuhmeier – guitars
• Alex Hagenauer – guitars
• Michael Dauscher – bass guitar
• Jan Sotiriu – drums

• Drums recorded by Stephan Fimemrs at Aexxys-Art
• Guitars, bass and vocals recorded at Station 24 Studios
• Engineered, mixed and mastered by Christoph Brandes at Iguana-Studios
• Cover artwork by Killustrations
• Layout by Karim Daire
• Bandphoto by Andreas Seitz

External links

• "The Tempest" video clip