Dawn ov Hate são uma banda de black metal old-school espanhola, que contém membros ilustres do underground espanhol, nomeadamente de bandas como os fantásticos Asgaroth, os funeral doomers Of Darkness e dos promissores Foscor.

Aproveitando o facto de estarem prestes a lançar o seu primeiro álbum, A Ritualis Metallum Infernalium não perdeu tempo a entrar em contacto com eles, para lhes fazer umas questões acerca da banda e do lançamento que se avizinha.

1 – Hails, Dawn ov Hate! It is a pleasure to have you answering our questions. Would you be kind enough to tell us how did Dawn ov Hate start and what are their goals?

Ave Heraklyon! DoH starts three years ago (aprox) when Bastard (Of Darkness, Graveyard) and I (Sign of KatuMarus, ex-Beheaded Lamb) decided to create a band together. We know each other for a lot of years and we have been involved (and still we are) in many bands into Spanish extreme metal scene. We had some interesting ideas and wanted to spread them and take them out from ourselves so we asked to Fiar (Foscor) if he wanted to join and accepted, this way we closed the circle with this line-up and recorded our first work, in a too fast way, I must say. Our goal is to continue playing “black fucking metal” until it motivates us enough to do it. Personally, I don’t see myself playing anything more than extreme metal and I hope It will be like this for many years more…

2 – Dawn ov Hate was born in 2004 and after 3 years, a demo was released. The demo is called “Death D’Hivern” which is the same name your next album shall have, something that we will discuss later. Apparently, this demo is a promo CD that was sent to some labels and friends and its impression was limited to 66 copies. Why have you decided to that it this way?

Well, I’m not too sure that we’ll keep the same name for the next album. The new album is (already) composed with new stuff, new songs… so I wouldn’t like to keep something what doesn’t fit with the new “vision”. We recorded (and spread) the promo CD with the only purpose of getting a deal with some label, something that finally happened. The promo CD doesn’t have any economical value… it’s just composed by a recorded CDR with pro-print info sheet. We limited the edition to 66 just because we didn’t want to spend too much money with this. As I’ve said, that wasn’t any interest in doing a “limited edition” for collectors nor anything like that, just a reasonable quantity for not wasting our money.

3 – Also about your demo from 2006, it is known that it is completely sold out. Were any of the copies really sold to people? If so, did you have any feedback from it?

No, no copies left from this stuff. They were just sent to record labels, some zine and some close friends just to get their valuable opinions. About feedback, well, as you can imagine, we got some different opinions and feedbacks. We found some people who liked the stuff a lot and wrote us with nice words, demanded us for live gigs… and some of them weren’t any interested in what we were doing. I must say it was not as easy as I thought in a first moment about finding a “nice” deal with a record label. If I have to be sincere with you, I always thought that the stuff would be released pretty time before, but well, we got eternal patience with this and we took this demo just like something to be a little more known into black metal scene. We would like to strike harder with our new stuff which is going to be quite better than our previous work. I guess the scene is overpopulated with black metal bands so it’s not so easy to get your stuff released, and if you put this together with piracy, massive mp3 downloading and all this shit, then, I find a logical thinking if record labels doesn’t want to risk their money releasing stuff…


4 – So, your debut album will be called “Death D’Hivern” as well and it will include all the songs from the demo. What should we expect from these old songs? Are they fairly different from the demo?

Yes, same songs, better sound… it’s just as easy like that. The sound was too low about volume when we did the mastering so we wanted to fix that. Besides, our label DEATH DEALERS ASSOCIATION needed around 30mins so we arranged some interlude and some new parts to make the total running play time a bit longer. We are lucky, because Bastard owns a professional recording studio so it’s “free” for us to make some arrangements. And so it was done. We mastered again all the songs and the final result gives more power to the tracks. Besides that we got a new amazing layout from our comrade Perversor. We did a first layout ourselves but we weren’t satisfied enough with the result, so DEATH DEALERS ASSOCIATION put us on contact with Perversor and everything went really great. We love the new layout, it expresses exactly the concept of DoH, he did a really great job, as well as in some others works he does. We can say we have increased the level of the recording in a very high percentage with this new imagery.


5 – What does “Death D’Hivern” means and is it related in any way with a concept behind the album or is it just a name you though that sounded good for your release?

The word “hivern” means “winter” in Catalonian language, so you could translate the title like “Death of Winter” more or less, although the concept is a bit deeper than a cliché title that could you think of at first sight. First of all, we love Catalonian language, culture and tradition above all so we were agreed in including some Catalonian word. We will use for sure some more Catalonian language in our next album; this is something we want to empower in all of our coming works.

6 – The label which is going to release your first album is called Death Dealers Association and it is based on Poland. How did you discover this label and what convinced you that it was the best option for releasing you album?

They contacted us. And we are deeply thankful to them about this. They showed a big interest in our work… We didn’t ask for anything, we don’t play music for the money or recognition; these two things are totally secondary. Of course is nice if you get some euros by doing something you like or someone writes you and says he/she likes your music, but the only thing we wanted was someone showing us respect and interest in our music. DEATH DEALERS ASSOCIATION gathers both and it’s a big pleasure to us to work with them. They are bidding hard for new (and not so new) bands and we hail them for this. We only demanded some few copies for the band, the same shit as always, band trades, friends… We hope all the copies will be sold out and DEATH DEALERS ASSOCIATION will be able to re-invest the money in releasing more stuff from bands. Music should be done about feelings and not about money, anyway, everyone has their own interests.

7 – Your imagery is clearly satanic, as the album cover and the songs show. I wanted to ask you how that spiritual side of yours influences you in terms of music composition. Do you get your inspiration from hatred towards Christianity only or from somewhere else?

I’d say this album is more anti-Christian than “satanic” in its imaginery concept. We used a lot of biblical passages and apocalyptic visions to perform the lyrics and visual concept of “Death d’Hivern”. I wouldn’t dare saying this is a “concept” album composed around “Apocalypse” but in its major part we talk about this. Maybe this is our way to deny of what once was created and demand for total annihilation of false idols and prophets. Of course is a black hate spit on the face of Christianity too but we didn’t abuse at all of “satanic” images and totems…

8 – Once again, due to your satanic beliefs, I am forced you to question something else. Personally I would say that every single person needs only a bit of knowledge and reasoning to see the Christian Church’s hypocrisy. What lead you to fight against mankind’s greatest disease, as I like to call it?

Church and Christian mafia abused so much of people that now are getting their own medicine. People seems to have opened their eyes and realize of the hypocrisy built upon the faith of people. We are just a little warrior more in this crusade of religion discredit, a pain in their fat asses of Christianity and their age of lies. Dawn ov Hate is our little contribution to their destruction…

9 – The Portuguese black metal underground is becoming very consistent due to bands who managed to drift away from the marasmus that worldwide black metal is about to get into. Recent bands like Crystalline Darkness, Tumulum and Penitência seem like a good suggestion from our country, along with the “oldies” Decayed and Corpus Christii. How is the black metal underground in our neighbour country, Spain? What bands do you think are the best in “España”?

Well, in fact, here is pretty the same thing of what you say about Portugal. We actually have some new good bands and there are some old bands refusing to be buried what is really a great thing. I will always like bands such as PRIMIGENIUM, NAZGUL, BEHEADED LAMB, URUK-HAI… they built black metal scene in Spain when all people were listening to death metal (style which I fucking love, don’t get me wrong!) I played in some of the named bands and I’m still close friend with some members into those bands, I have a lot of respect for what they did and represented in Spain, but we have to look into the present/future and I see great bands too, just to mention some, FOSCOR is doing a fucking great job and promoting Spanish black metal out of our borders, same goes for PROCLAMATION, TEITANBLOOD (be aware with their new work!!) between others. I must say, not naming anyone just for being diplomatic, there are a lot of SHITTY bands here. About black metal scene I think we are now a bit late, because we always had the quality but never did the effort enough or had the confidence in making this bigger… Anyways, better late than never!!

10 – Your brand of black metal is called by you as “Pure Fucking Black Metal”, which is a label that I’ve found really capable of fitting your sound. What are the bands that have influenced you the most and why?

Pure black fucking metal… there’s no other way! It’s sometimes hard to me to understand some other kind of label about black metal. I assume people wants to re-invent black metal or disassociate theirselves from “traditional” black metal adding some stupid suffixes but we are proud of what we play and we don’t want to search for bombastic labels to our music. This is only BLACK METAL… raw guitars, raping basses, fast drums… the way black metal should be! About influences, the list would be endless, you know. I can say we take A LOT influences from old bands and some more from new bands. We are not pretending to sound like Darkthrone but we are not going to invent anything new either… We three have listened to thousand black metal bands during our lives so it’s almost impossible to not get some influences from many of them… I think is ok… Just say one band without any influences from any other band…

11 – I understand that all the 3 members of Dawn ov Hate have or had others bands beside this project. Did you have any difficulty on meeting and rehearsing because of the other projects, also of great quality, like Foscor and Of Darkness?

No, there’s not any problem with our side-bands since we just met when we have some new stuff to arrange. Every one of us has it own role into Dawn ov Hate pretty clear so, we just need to met and work on those ideas. The music from DoH is basically composed by Bastard and we have total faith in what he does. Of course, we discuss about the lines or basis of a song… We three add our personal touches to the final result and I think this is one of the reasons we can play, just in my opinion, good songs. I don’t care what other members do in their respective “main bands” but we three are totally concentrated when we gather together to play with DoH and this is what it counts for me.

12 – Since you are about to release the album Death D’Hivern” do you have any gigs planned, to promote the album, by now? Do you consider the possibility of playing in Portugal somewhere in a not so distant future?

Well, being sincere, there are no plans to play live in a near future. I have to admit that it would be great to do this since I like the “live” experience but this is not our goal at this moment. Maybe in some future we could play some live attacks. Of course we would love to play in Portugal and since you are our neighbours it would be pretty easy to arrange something with any of the bands there. I hope someday… I’m pretty sure we could do a pretty aggressive and intense show

13 – Thank you for answering this interview. We hope to see you soon in Portugal. Do you want to tell anything else to the readers?

First of all, thanks to you for your questions, I hope the answers will result of interesting for your readers, which I hope they will be thousands! Just stay tuned for our new works which are going to be intense and strong. Write to dawnovhate@hotmail.com if you need anything from us. We appreciate your support… 666 TOTAL BLACK FUCKING METAL…

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