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You didn’t see this coming!

It’s 2010 and we thought we should start off the new year by making quite a bit of changes. Some might come as a total surprise, some may not. We were never a band who gave a fuck about what other people think anyways. That sounded cool, huh?

First off we wanna thank Jo Enckell for her work with TPH since 2003. She’s done a great job on the albums she’s been a part of and will always be a huge part of TPH’s history. Yes, Ms. Jo is no longer a part of TPH. There are no grudges held or anything, we just feel it’s time to enter a new stage in our career. This is what Jo has to say about this:

“I’m so happy to have been a part of The Project Hate MCMXCIX, to have been able to participate on four killer albums! This band will always have a special place in my heart. I love you guys and to all the fans – you rule! – Jo”

Many of you will wonder why Jo is relieved of duty after all these years. It’s simple – we have done fantastic albums with her since “Hate, Dominate Congregate, Eliminate” some 7 years ago, but now we feel it’s time to go for another type of vocals when it comes to the female parts. We are looking for something else to further enhance our sound. And we have found it.

In fucken Portugal of all places.

Let us introduce Ms. Roque to the fold. A killer chick with an absolutely fantastic voice including range, dynamics and power. Ms. Roque is destined to make her mark in TPH history with the strongest vocals we have ever had. You will have more info on her shortly in case you don’t have the strength to Google her yourself. In her own words:

“I’m very proud and thankful to be joining TPH, its an honour to be joining forces with such talented musicians. A big thank you to Lord K for believing in me and my «pipes» !  To all the fans of TPH , I promise you guys that I won’t let you guys down! I’m very motivated and ready to kick some serious ass!! Truly yours – Ruby”

Welcome Ms. Roque to The Hate. We are extremely happy to have her on board and look forward to work with her for years and years to come.

We are not done yet though… What? We are changing drummer as well? Yes, we are. Thomas Ohlsson, who played on “The Lustrate Process” and did a great job with it, is also replaced. Why? Well, sometimes the answer is right in front of you, you just forget to look since it’s too close.

Of course Tobben Gustafsson of Torture Division and Vomitory is the man to be the last piece of the Hate puzzle. It dawned on us some time ago; why the hell isn’t one of our fave drummers and best friends playing drums for TPH? We know what this guy is capable of and it’s safe to say we’ll get the finest drumming of our career with the next album by having Golden T on it. As said before, his nickname isn’t fucken Golden for nothing, you know. Here’s what Tobben has to say about being the new drummer:

“I am very excited to join forces with K and J again, but now in The Project Hate MCMXCIX! From having been not so impressed in the beginning, I have grown to like this band a lot over the years. Their sound is truly unique and it’s not the kind of metal I’m used to play, so it will be a big challenge for me to take on this honourable task. It will demand a lot of hard work, blood, sweat and frustration but I know it will all be worth it in the end. Prepare for a masterpiece!”

More changes? Well, kind of… We haven’t heard from Michael Håkansson in quite some time. We actually don’t even know what he thinks about the latest album. Whatever he’s doing (probably repairing motorcycles and whatnot) we wish him the best, coz Michael is one terrific guy. He didn’t play on “Lustrate” and K doesn’t mind doing bass so he’ll do that on the coming albums as he used to before Michael entered the Hate-fold on “Armageddon” and “Hora”. Thanx for the killer work you did on those recordings, kid.

TPH has always been about progression. We have always wanted to push the limits. We have done that with each and every album and will continue to do just that, even more-so with our 7th studio recording. We are putting gasoline on our fire and it feels great. We are upgrading The Hate.  The work with album 7 has started (actually it started some time back, we just didn’t tell you) and it will be a massive process to complete this one. Things are going really well with the song writing and we are not walking away from the formula that’s made us achieve recognition. We won’t guess when all the material for this album will be completed but let us state that we are far into the process. We will work harder than ever before on this coming, guaranteed-to-be masterpiece. And trust us – it will be downright fucken phenomenal.

Last off, another huge “thanx” to Jo, Michael and Thomas for the work you have done with TPH. We will always love you for it.

Welcome the new blood. A new chapter of the apocalypse just started…

Small update on the recording process…

We are still waiting for J to be able to nail those 2 last songs with his monstrous roars. This means we are in the same situation as some weeks ago. You know K and J’s been busy doing Torture Division gigs but we are doing what we can do squeeze those 2 songs in asap, believe us. Just hang in there. We are working on some small TPH related stuff in the meantime and you will all find out what it’s about as we go along. Stay detuned.

Let us be brief here…

In case someone missed out on this:

We are definitely getting closer to finalizing this masterpiece since J only got 2 more songs to do vocals for as he nailed the 5th one a few days ago. We hope he’ll be able to do one of them this coming week and the last one after we have played the House Of Metal festival with Torture Division which happens next weekend.

K has already started to make notes about all the corrections and small details that need fixing as soon as all the vocals are in place. Dan Swanö will love him for that, we’re sure, haha… But that’s the fun part, making everything come to life as we have envisioned it and with Dan’s magic it even exceeds our expectations.

So, now you know – we are getting nearer completion.

What’s up in the Hate camp?

As we have mentioned there’s only 3 songs left to do vocals for for J… Now when we have the Torture Division gig at the Close Up Boat out of the way hopefully J can nail a tune or 2 before the gig at House Of Metal. Keep your fingers crossed coz there’s not too much work left to do you know… As said before as well; it’s really fucken cool to have Dan starting to mix this already and he’s just sitting about waiting for the remaining vocals before he can continue. In the meantime he’s doing some corrections that we hand over so we are actually working with what we got even though all the vocals aren’t completed yet, so it’s not like we are sitting on our asses doing nothing, just so you have that clear, haha…

You know you will be kept updated as we move along.

Early February 2008 update from the Hate camp

Excuse us for taking a month without updating you lot on our activities, which are quite many. There we go, apology made. Well, seriously, we keep everyone who wants to updated over at our forums on a daily basis so we take the apology back. How about that? On a more serious note, this is what’s currently happening in the land of Hate:

We are one or 2 riffs short of completing the 7th and final track for the next album. The only reason why this last tune hasn’t been finished just yet is lack of time during the last month or so. K‘s been helping out Grave playing some gig or 2 and he’s also recorded the Torture Division demo (with fellow TPH superstar J and Vomitory‘s Grindmaster Flash Tobben) that you’ll all get as a free download shortly at the Torture Division website. Keep yer eyes open for that.

But back to The Hate now…

We are about to finish up all the material for studio album number 6(66), as mentioned. Once again we are quite surprised as for how incredibly good it all sounds. We just have to state it again: It’s the best damn thing we have ever written. And yeah, it’s actually true too. You’ll see when the time comes. There’s still ALOT of stuff to sort before we’ll start to record this one though. We are about to pick out all the parts where the vocals should be any day now. Jo‘s been very active with ideas and suggestions for her parts and we just know that some of it will definitely turn some heads. You never saw some of this shit come from us, that’s guaranteed. It’s only been a few months since the last masterpiece was released so we are really in no rush to complete this one. It feels like we have said this a thousand times, but hey… We’ll take all the time we need to make everything completely perfect. To do all the lyrics will definitely take some time as well, but since the hate against everything that is holy is endless, this will be done in our usual, glorious manner.

“Will Stormvox release the next album?” we hear you ask. We haven’t even discussed that yet so that remains to be seen. Hopefully they have been sorting out their distro-deals now coz the amount of mails we get from people who are asking as for where to find the latest album show that there’s definitely an interest and a demand for what we are doing. You can always order the thing directly from us though, remember that. All the information you need is at the forums of ours. It’ss prolly be way faster to do it like that.

Bassist Michael is a stark raving lunatic, we have to mention that as well. He’s obviously going to do some mindblowing shit (again) on the next recording. The ideas he’s handed over to K are just those of pure insanity. That guy IS bass personified. You’ll see, as always when it comes to that madman. It’s always nice to see someone with an endless stream of ideas, someone who continously pushes himself beyond all limitations.

This is an update made just so you know what the fuck we are up to. Now we’ll get that last song down and start working out all the remaining details so we can start recording this asap. Stay tuned here and at our forums for daily updates on our activities. Thanx so much for the infernal support you Haters show us. We appreciate it and it makes us work harder and harder for every album.