As some of you may remember, in early April we announced that Sławek “Mortifer” Archangielskij, bassist for Hate, died suddenly whilst on tour with the band.
Fans will, however, be pleased to hear that the remaining members of Hate have decided to continue together as a band. ATF Sinner made the following statement:
“We would like you to know that we have decided to continue with the band and keep on doing our job as always. There is still a big hole in our hearts, but we do not want to focus on mourning over the tragedy. Instead we decide to focus on the band and keeping it alive as well as all the ideas we shared with Mortifer. We treat what we do as a mission and we cannot see the end of it. On some shows to come we will be accompanied by Mortifer’s wife Alexandra on bass guitar. She has been in the business for some time and been involved in a few Russian bands before. As an experienced musician, she will undoubtedly manage on the stage with us. On other shows we will be joined by Piotr Kołakowski (Neyra), a talented musician who had previously been on stage with us as a session musician.”
Hate’s latest album, Solarflesh, is available now via Napalm Records.
