Hatesphere is a Danish death

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 and thrash metal

Thrash metal

Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...

 band from Aarhus

Aarhus

Aarhus or Århus is the second-largest city in Denmark. The principal port of Denmark, Aarhus is on the east side of the peninsula of Jutland in the geographical center of Denmark...

. The band was formed in 1998 by guitarist Peter “Pepe” Hansen. As of 2010, the band consists of vocalist Esben "Esse" Hansen, guitarists Peter “Pepe” Hansen, and Jakob Nyholm, bass player Jimmy Nedergaard and drummer Mike Park. The band has released six albums and two EPs to date. The new album "The Great Bludgeoning" is to be released in the end of September 2011.

Biography

Formed in Aarhus, Denmark, by guitarist Peter "Pepe" Hansen in 1998, HateSphere quickly overpowered the Danish metal scene, while concurrently setting an immeasurable new standard for thrash metal

Thrash metal

Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...

 domestically and abroad. HateSphere’s first three albums, Hatesphere, Bloodred Hatred and Ballet of the Brute, upgraded the band’s status from local sensation to Europe’s hottest up and coming thrash quintet. Under the leadership of Scarlet Records

Scarlet Records

Scarlet Records is an Italian independent record label based in Milan. It is most notable for featuring two side projects from Soilwork front-man Björn "Speed" Strid, as well as band like Agent Steel, Royal Hunt, Skyclad, Eldritch, Hatesphere, Primevil, Labyrinth, Dark Moor and more. Born in 1998,...

, HateSphere toured Europe with The Haunted

The Haunted

The Haunted is a Swedish metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1996.The original members were Anders & Jonas Björler, Peter Dolving, Adrian Erlandsson and Patrik Jensen...

 in 2003 and again with Exodus

Exodus (band)

Exodus is an American thrash metal band formed in 1980 in Richmond, California. Spanning a career of over 30 years, Exodus has gone through numerous lineup changes, two extended hiatuses, and the deaths of two former band members. Guitarist Gary Holt remains the only constant member of the band,...

 in 2004, while also turning heads at Wacken Open Air

Wacken Open Air

Wacken Open Air is a summer open air heavy metal music festival. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany...

, With Full Force

With Full Force

With Full Force is a metal, hardcore and punk festival held annually in Germany since 1994. The 2011 edition took place on July 1 and July 3 at the Roitzschjora airport in Löbnitz near Leipzig in the Saxon county of Delitzsch.-2010:...

, and Hellfest Festivals.

In 2005, HateSphere inked a deal with SPV Records

SPV GmbH

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 and assembled a production team of established Danish producers; including Tommy Hansen, Jacob Hansen, and Tue Madsen

Tue Madsen

Tue Madsen is a Danish music producer and sound engineer, who is well known in metal genre for his work with bands like The Haunted, Mnemic, Hatesphere, Ektomorf, Cataract, Exmortem, and Born from Pain. His first work as a producer was the album Embraced by the Absolute by Autumn Leaves in 1997...

. The Sickness Within was released in September of that same year receiving rave reviews from the worldwide metal media. The pure ferocity, complexity, and brutal grooves enshrined in the album, landed HateSphere on multiple tours of Europe with Kreator

Kreator

Kreator is a thrash metal band from Essen, Germany, formed in 1978, but formalized in 1982 under the name Tormentor. They originally performed a speed metal style with Venom influences. Their style of music is similar to their compatriots Destruction and Sodom, the other two big German thrash metal...

, Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel is an American death metal band based in Tampa, Florida. UK music magazine Terrorizer ranked one Morbid Angel album in its “Top 40 greatest death metal albums”, with their 1989 debut Altars of Madness appearing at number 1...

, Soilwork

Soilwork

Soilwork is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Helsingborg. They are currently signed to Nuclear Blast. Formed in late 1995 by Björn Strid and Peter Wichers, originally under the name Inferior Breed, the band changed their name in late 1996 to Soilwork .Their sound is a fusion of the classic...

, Dark Tranquillity

Dark Tranquillity

Dark Tranquillity is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg. They are one of the longest-standing bands from the original Gothenburg metal scene, and are one of the most integral pioneers of the melodic death metal genre of music....

, and Chimaira

Chimaira

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. In addition to headlining shows in support of The Sickness Within, the band made appearances at Wacken Open Air

Wacken Open Air

Wacken Open Air is a summer open air heavy metal music festival. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany...

, Metal Camp, and Roskilde Festival

Roskilde Festival

Roskilde Festival is a festival held south of Roskilde in Denmark and is one of the six biggest annual music festivals in Europe . It was created in 1971 by two high school students, Mogens Sandfær and Jesper Switzer Møller, and promoter Carl Fischer...

.

HateSphere continued to raise its profile on an international level by touring Japan, co-headlining the UK with Gojira

Gojira

Gojira is a heavy metal band formed in 1996 in Bayonne, France. The band was known as Godzilla until 2001. Gojira is composed of Joe Duplantier on vocals and guitar, his brother Mario Duplantier on drums, Christian Andreu on guitar and Jean-Michel Labadie on bass...

, and headlining the first edition of The Danish Dynamite tour with Raunchy and Volbeat. HateSphere again made history by being the first Danish band to tour China. Following the 2007 release of Serpent Smiles and Killer Eyes, HateSphere yet again hit the road headlining Europe with Aborted

Aborted

Aborted is a Belgian death metal band formed in Waregem, Belgium in 1995. The group comprises vocalist and founder Sven de Caluwé, guitarists Eran Segal and Mike Wilson, bassist J.B. Van Der Wal, and drummer Ken Bedene. The band members of Aborted are from Belgium, France, Israel, United Kingdom,...

 and Dagoba

Dagoba

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, which was followed by successful performances at Wacken Open Air and Roskilde Festivals and a support tour of Poland with Behemoth

Behemoth (band)

Behemoth is a Polish blackened death metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground, alongside bands such as Vader, Decapitated, Vesania and Hate....

 in September.

Serpent Smiles and Killer Eyes also shot up to position 26 on the Danish National Music Charts. Soon thereafter, HateSphere amicably parted ways with then vocalist Jacob Bredahl, who chose to concentrate on other musical endeavors. Without missing a beat, HateSphere assembled its strongest, and present lineup, showcasing its intensity, bottomless drive, and ravenous new frontman Joller Albrechtsen at the 2007 Danish Metal Awards (DMeA). All doubt cast over the band’s lineup instantly shattered as the band hit the ground running with a month long co-headlining tour of Europe with Swedish legends Dismember

Dismember (band)

Dismember was a Swedish death metal band that formed in 1988. They are well known in the death metal underground. They split up in October 2011.-History:...

. HateSphere was indeed back in business.

HateSphere entered Antfarm Studios in November 2008 to record the next album entitled To the Nines

To the Nines (Hatesphere album)

- Personnel :* Peter "Pepe" Lyse Hansen - rhythm guitar* Mixen Lindberg - bass guitar* Dennis Buhl - drums* Jakob Nyholm - lead guitar* Jonathan "Joller" Albrechtsen - vocals-Release dates:*23.03 – Denmark*25.03 – Finland & Spain...

. To the Nines was recorded, mixed and mastered in less than a month under the leadership of longtime friend and producer Tue Madsen

Tue Madsen

Tue Madsen is a Danish music producer and sound engineer, who is well known in metal genre for his work with bands like The Haunted, Mnemic, Hatesphere, Ektomorf, Cataract, Exmortem, and Born from Pain. His first work as a producer was the album Embraced by the Absolute by Autumn Leaves in 1997...

 (Earth Crisis

Earth Crisis

Earth Crisis is an American metalcore band from Syracuse, New York, active from 1989 until 2001, reuniting in 2007. Their most recent record, To the Death, was released in May 2009 through Century Media....

, The Haunted

The Haunted

The Haunted is a Swedish metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1996.The original members were Anders & Jonas Björler, Peter Dolving, Adrian Erlandsson and Patrik Jensen...

, Heaven Shall Burn

Heaven Shall Burn

Heaven Shall Burn is a German heavy metal band from Saalfeld, formed in 1996. They combine an aggressive metal sound with lyrics that show a militant support of anti-racism and fighting social injustice. All members of the band are vegan.-Biography:...

) at AntFarm Studios in Aarhus and was released by Napalm Records

Napalm Records

Napalm Records is an Austrian independent record label focused on heavy metal and hard rock.Originally, Napalm Records focused mainly on black metal acts such as Abigor and Summoning and folk metal bands such as Falkenbach and Vintersorg....

.

In February 2010 vocalist Jonathan "Joller" Albrechtsen left Hatesphere, and the band announced that Mevadio singer Morten "Kruge" Madsen would replace Albrechtsen on the February–March North American tour with The Black Dahlia Murder

The Black Dahlia Murder

The Black Dahlia Murder is an American heavy metal band from Waterford, Michigan, formed in 2001. Their name is derived from the 1947 unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short, often referred to as Black Dahlia. The band comprises vocalist Trevor Strnad, guitarists Brian Eschbach and Ryan Knight, bassist...

, Obscura

Obscura (band)

-History:Obscura was founded in 2002 by Steffen Kummerer. The band was named after the Gorguts album Obscura. In 2006 Obscura self-released their debut album Retribution and toured alongside Suffocation within Europe. A European headlining tour through East and South Europe followed in 2007...

, and Augury

Augury (band)

Augury is a progressive death metal band from Montreal, Canada who released their debut album, Concealed in September 2004 on Galy Records, and a follow-up, Fragmentary Evidence, in July 2009 on Nuclear Blast Records.-History:...

.

In July 2010 the band announced that a permanent replacement for Jonathan "Joller" Albrechtsen had been found in Esben "Esse" Hansen, also known from Danish metal band As We Fight. At the same point it became known that bass player Mixen Lindberg had left the band and that he would be temporarily replaced by the band's former bass player and founding member Mikael Ehlert until the end of 2010. The band toured the US and Canada September–November 2010 supporting Nevermore

Nevermore

Nevermore is an American heavy metal band from Seattle, Washington. Formed in 1991, they are known to incorporate elements from styles such as thrash, power, progressive, and neo-classical metal into their songs, and also makes use of acoustic guitars and a wide range of vocal styles.-Early years...

. In May 2011 the band announced that Gob Squad bass player Jimmy Nedergaard had joined the band.

Current members

• Esben "Esse" Hansen - vocal (2010-)
• Peter "Pepe" Lyse Hansen – rhythm and lead guitar (1998-)
• Jakob Nyholm – rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
  
   (2007-)
• Mike Park - drums
  Drum kit
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   (2009-)
• Jimmy Nedergaard - bass (2011-)

Former members

Vocals

• Jacob "Dr. J" Bredahl (1998–2007) (Chaosium, Allhelluja, The Kandidate, Barcode, Last Mile)
• Jonathan "Joller" Albrechtsen (2007–2010) (Scarred by Beauty, Mudslide)

Lead guitars

• Niels Peter "Ziggy" Siegfredsen (1998–2003) (Cryonic)
• Henrik "Heinz" Bastrup Jacobsen (2003–2007) (Koldborn, Sadogoat)

Bass

• Mikael Ehlert Hansen (1998–2007)
• Mixen Lindberg (2007–2010)

Drums

• Jesper Moesgaard (1998–2000)
• Morten Toft Hansen (2000–2003) (Raunchy)
• Anders "Andy Gold" Gyldenøhr (2003–2007) (Grope, Artillery
  Artillery (band)
  Artillery is a Danish technical thrash metal band. They participated in the early development of the genre, and their highly energetic, riff-centric and often fast-paced music is similar in style to that of Voivod, Coroner, Megadeth and Sabbat from the same era...
  
  , Pixie Killers)
• Dennis Buhl – drums
  Drum kit
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   (2007–2009) (The Downward Candidate/The Kandidate, Sinphonia, Evil Masquerade
  Evil Masquerade
  -Biography:Evil Masquerade was founded in the summer of 2003 in Copenhagen by guitarist Henrik Flyman . He hooked up with Dennis Buhl behind the drums, Kasper Gram on bass and Henrik Brockmann on vocals to record the band's debut album. It was released early 2004 under the name "Welcome to the...
  
  )

Touring members

• Morten "Kruge" Madsen – vocals (2010)

• Morten Løwe Sørensen - drums (2005)

• Henrik "Heinz" Bastrup Jacobsen - guitar (14 June 2008 in at Rock Palace Open Air in Pushkin, Russia, standing in for Jakob Nyholm as well as 19 February 2010 at Rock 51 in Sarpsborg, Norway, standing in for Peter "Pepe" Lyse Hansen. The latter is the only show so far in the band's history to not feature Peter Lyse Hansen)

• Mikael Ehlert Hansen – bass (2010)

Studio albums

• Hatesphere (2001)
• Bloodred Hatred (2002)
• Ballet of the Brute (2004)
• The Sickness Within (2005)
• Serpent Smiles and Killer Eyes (2007)
• To the Nines
  To the Nines (Hatesphere album)
  - Personnel :* Peter "Pepe" Lyse Hansen - rhythm guitar* Mixen Lindberg - bass guitar* Dennis Buhl - drums* Jakob Nyholm - lead guitar* Jonathan "Joller" Albrechtsen - vocals-Release dates:*23.03 – Denmark*25.03 – Finland & Spain...
  
  (2009)
• The Great Bludgeoning (2011)

EPs

• Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed and Something Black (EP, 2003)
• The Killing (EP, 2005)

Videography

• Sickness Within
• Reaper of Life
• Forever War
• Drinking With the King of the Dead
• Floating
• To the Nines

External links

• Hatesphere official website