D:HATE “Game With Ghosts”

D.HATE
“Game With Ghosts”
(Metal Scrap Records)
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I don’t like Pantera. Maybe I’m totally of track here but everything everybody else likes about them I don’t see. So whenever I hear an album that even closely resembles Pantera’s sound I get hesitant. D.Hate made me think of Pantera classics like “Walk” sped up and I don’t know what to think about it. Have I been totally wrong about Pantera or is it just that I like what D.Hate performs that I think I’ll like Pantera too. Enough about the P band. D.Hate are best described as thrash metal with somewhat of a groove. You can hear the marching rhythm pumping in the back ground that drives the music forward. It gives the music that groovy feeling that makes your head move back and forth. I can see people synchronized bopping their heads to this in a metal club in some rural German city. And that is as good a grade as any. Anders