HATRED’S RISE – Echoes Of The Machine (2025) *HQ*
Sometimes the best albums are released with almost zero promotion. One of these is “Echoes Of The Machine“, the debut album from HATRED’S RISE.
Hatred’s Rise is a Metal Project created by Canadian Pat Larocque with guest appearances by various world-renowned artists from the genre. Larocque is a well known session musician and recording engineer with over 20 years experience in the professional music industry as a touring / session / fill-in musician with companies such as Warner, Capitol, Metal Blade and Century Media Records.
Larocque’s vision for Hatred’s Rise is to bring back the traditional ’80s melodic metal sound spiced with the good melodic side of thrash metal, like Megadeth, Testament and Metallica. “Echoes Of The Machine” features 10 elaborated pieces of melting metal, of course, perfectly produced and executed.
Helping to materialize Larocque’s own music on “Echoes Of The Machine” there’s great metal vocalists Henning Basse (Firewind, Gamma Ray, Metalium) and Mike DiMeo (Riot, Masterplan), guitarist Glen Drover (ex-Megadeth, ex-King Diamond), drummer Shawn Drover (ex-Megadeth, Withering Scorn), among others. Larocque play guitar, and all is really well glued.
And we said ‘the best albums’ above as “Echoes Of The Machine” is one of best melodic metal records we heard in recent time. Hatred’s Rise is not a ‘band’, but a killer project with punchy metallic songs and a modern huge sound. There’s a thrash metal touch underlying all over the record providing a great atmosphere, enhancing the already potent attack of the songs.
This may be an indie release, but sounds million bucks.
Highly Recommended
01 – No More Lies
02 – Darkness Falls
03 – Endless Night
04 – Rivers Of Pain
05 – Eternal Abyss
06 – Echoes Of The Machine
07 – I Will Rise
08 – Ashes Of Silence
09 – Cosmic Eons
10 – Through The Storm
⚡ Mike DiMeo (ex-Riot, ex-Masterplan) – vocals
⚡ Henning Basse (ex-Firewind, Metalium) – vocals
⚡ Pat Larocque – guitar, bass, percussion
⚡ Glen Drover (ex-Megadeth, ex-King Diamond) – guitar
⚡ Shawn Drover (ex-Megadeth, Withering Scorn) – drums
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