Hateful Abandon

Hateful Abandon

Threat

Sentient Ruin Laboratories

***Bankers are getting richer, cops more corrupt, and politicians are running entire nations into the ground to stuff their pockets, while the rest of us toil and wilt in a gutter of helplessness and resentment, as the shadows of war and class enslavement elongate further into a futureless, horizonless twilight. After ten long years shrouded in silence no one would have imagined or foreseen the return of Bristol’s masters of bleak sonic detestation. Yet their grandiose re-emergence from the shadows is not only unexpected, but it restores Hateful Abandon to their most shimmering and relevant form, resounding as more necessary, intimidating and bloated with bile than ever before, as they regain their role as sinister immune response to a broken world overrun by bastards. The duo of multi-instrumentalists Tom “Swine” Price and Martin “Vice Martyr” Brindley thus rebound to resplendent despondency after a decade of silence with “Threat”, a brand new full-length release of cross-disciplinary sonic execration once again weaving the grim fibers of post-punk, industrial, anarcho and crust punk, black metal and darkwave into their own idealization of resentment and scorn toward a world they do not recognize or accept. “Threat” not only perfectly continues the legacy of their previous three acclaimed full-lengths (2008’s “Famine”, 2011’s “Move”, and 2014’s “Liars/Bastards”) erasing a ten-year absence completely, but it evolves the duo’s unrivaled vision further, cementing their status of defiant outsider cult consecrated by a career spanning almost twenty years that has has seen few credible rivals or imitators. Once again...