Artist: Graveworm
Title: Ascending Hate
Label: AFM Records
Cat #: AFM492-9
Release Year: 2015
Duration: Album
Format: CD Digipak
Quality: New Sealed

Ascending Hate is the eights album from the Italian blackened death metal band Graveworm.

Ascending Hate is their most intense and powerful work since their 2003 masterpiece “Engraved In Black” in your hands. Founding member Stefan Unterpertinger has returned to the band with „Ascending Hate” after 10 years!

GRAVEWORM are one of the leading extreme metal acts in Europe. In the 18 years of their history so far, the Italian dark metallers have not only achieved to deliver quality music constantly, they have released classics if the genre (just think back to 2003’s „Engraved In Black“). It’s exactly this very special mixture of symphonic black metal elements, gothic and thrash, that makes GRAVEWORM sound so unique.

And even in their nineteenth year of history, the band doesn’t fail to surprise: even though GRAVEWORM are known for delivering quality sound - only few would have expected the band to return that energetic, strong and powerful. Songs such as „Buried Alive“ or „Blood Torture Death“ sound very fresh, are bursting of power and come up with strong melodies. This immensely high-quality level is kept up over the whole playing time of “Ascending Hate”, which closes with a very GRAVEWORM’ish cover version of the Bon Jovi hymn “Runaway” (available as bonus track on the Digipak version).

More than three and a half years after their previous release “Fragments Of Death“, the band returns in amazing shape and with an album that exceeds all expectations.

Recommended if you like: Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Old Man's Child, Rotting Christ, Samael, Naglfar, Dark Funeral

Track Listing:
01. The Death Heritage
02. Buried Alive
03. Blood/Torture/Death
04. To The Empire Of Madness
05. Downfall Of Heaven
06. Stillborn
07. Liars To The Lions
08. Rise Again
09. Son Of Lies
10. Nocturnal Hymns Part II (The Death Anthem)
11. Runaway (Bon Jovi Cover)