Hateseed - 2025 - Rising Through Decay

(43:42; M & O Music)






















Track list:
1. Strangled 3:31
2. Senseless Atrocity 3:14
3. Take this Fist 3:38
4. Overflowing Anger 3:52
5. Say Goodbye 3:58
6. My Living Nightmare 3:16
7. Pain Addiction 4:29
8. Aych 3:00
9. Surrender and Kneel 3:04
10. Suffer 3:53
11. Wont Be Wrong 4:00
12. Pain Addiction [Acoustic] 3:47

Line-up:
Ivan Magnani - vocals, bass
Edoardo Friese - drums
Andrea Llvi - guitars
Gabriele Turco - guitars


Italian band Hateseed is a fairly new addition to the Italian music scene, as the band was formed as recently as in 2023. Following an initial EP and single that was self released by the band they signed with French label M & O Music for the release of their debut album "Rising Through Decay" in the late fall of 2025.

Good, old thrash metal is what we get with this production, with more of a no frills approach to the art of thrash metal. The guitar sound is big and somewhat primal, with chugging and circulating patterns alternating with impact riff flavored cascades and the occasional venture into subtly more groove-oriented landscapes  and the occasional slower paced passages. Some harmony soloing will appear on occasion, while the proper lead guitar passage tends to stick to a single passage in the song and with a guitar tone that is light, firm and sharp. We get a steady to busy rhythm section depending on need, while the vocals are of the more aggressive kind that comes with a nod or three in the direction of the hardcore tradition.

This is a fairly uniform album, with mainly minor nuances and differences from one song to the next. A good thing if you enjoy the sound and expression of this band of course, but this also means that if you listen to one of their songs and it doesn't appeal, chances are good that this will be the case for the album as such too.

While this is an album that comes with a certain charm to it, it is also an album that comes across as somewhat flawed. The mix and production in particular strikes me as being just too lo-fi in nature, with some songs also having minor noise artifacts and the sound as such comes across as both closed in and arguably also ever so slightly unbalanced. I'm also left with a little bit of a question mark in terms of the mastering of this album.

If you enjoy a more basic sounding variety of energetic thrash metal, and you tend to enjoy bands that have more of a rough and lo-fi quality in the mix and production department, this is an album you might want to investigate. The technical issues may obviously be a detrimental aspect for some, but those who tend to prefer bands with a production quality of the kind that is often described as raw and honest strikes me as a bit of a key audience in this particular case.

Olav M. Björnsen, March 2026

Links:
https://www.facebook.com/hateseed.official
https://www.m-o-music.com/

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