Hate, Dominate, Congregate, Eliminate
About the recording
There’s also a complete studio-report for this album, so check that one for even more details. Strongest memories is all the friends being there all the time, drinking beer, some of them doing backingvocals and whatnot. Except for when K and Petter did the bass and guitars there were people all over the place, taking part in the recording-progress. A good memory is when a close friend entered the studio as K and Petter had just put down the 4 rhythm-guitars and says ” That’s a great bass-sound!”. The bass was still to be recorded…
This album introduced Jo Enckell to the Haters and she did some excellent work. Mieszko did his (probably) best production ever with a bass-sound bands can only dream of. He gave it to us. It was a lovely recording with a bit of a stressed mixing. Something around 20 days in total were spent in Soundlab Studios and after that recording we felt that we have peaked. This album is still a gigantic monument for us and holds a very special place in our hearts. We got closer to what we always aimed for…
About the title
We thought about a lot of stuff but nothing really appealed to K in a way that is needed, so we started to ask around on our forums for some suggestions, just for fun. A Canadian called Derek came up with the title to 90%. Can’t remember what the inital “E” word in the title was, but K didn’t approve and changed it to “Eliminate” and there it was. Then we based the song-titles around the album-title and for the first time ever we just used one-word titles thruout a whole album. Quite a challenge for the guys who usually thinks titles like “Oceans of seemingly endless bleeding” are short and good.
About the cover
Once again, webmaster Marko had completely free hands to do what he wanted. His friend, Jouni Väänänen, took alot of photos and Marko played around with them to make the cover what it is today. A genious move was to make the cover in the color it is as it throws you completely off-guard and it’s definitely not a color you associate with metal in general.
