The Project Hate MCMXCIX (often referred to as simply Project Hate or sometimes T.P.H.) are a Swedish Death Metal band with Industrial influences that was formed in 1998 by Lord K. Philipson and Jorgen Sandstrom. They recorded a demo with the help of Dan Swano in the winter of that same year. After recording 3 tracks and sending them out to various studios, they were signed by Massacre Records (based in Germany) in 1999. Afterwards, they acquired female vocalist Mia Stahl and began recording their debut album, which was released worldwide in 2000.
Since then, they have gone through several second guitarists, bassists, drummers and female vocalists, though the two founding members remain. Their most recent album was Spewing Venom into the Eyes of Deities, released in November 2021.
Current Lineup
- Jorgen Sandstrom (vocals)
- Ruby Roque (vocals)
- Tobben Gustafsson (drums)
- Lord K. Philipson (guitars, bass, programmings, keyboards, serpents and backing vocals)
Discography:
- Cybersonic Superchrist (2000)
- When We Are Done, Your Flesh Will Be Ours (2001)
- Killing Helsinki (2003)
- Hate, Dominate, Congregate, Eliminate (2003)
- Armageddon March Eternal - Symphonies of Slit Wrists (2005)
- In Hora Mortis Nostrae (2007)
- Deadmarch - Initiation of Blasphemy (2009)note
- The Lustrate Process (2009)
- Bleeding the New Apocalypse - Cum Victricis in Manibus Armis (2011)
- The Cadaverous Retaliation Agenda (2012)
- There Is No Earth I Will Leave Unscorched (2014)
- Of Chaos and Carnal Pleasures (2017)
- Death Ritual Covenant (2018)
- Purgatory (2020)
- Spewing Venom into the Eyes of Deities (2021)
- Abominations of the Ageless (2023)
The Project Hate provides examples of:
- Album Title Drop: "Forsaken by the Naked Light of Day".
- Death Metal: Mixed with Industrial Metal and Symphonic Metal.
- Digital Piracy Is Evil: Lord K repeatedly expresses his distaste for pirating music. This got to the point that upon the release of Spewing Venom, digital downloads were locked behind a link sent out to fans who bought it to prevent it from leaking too soon.
- Epic Rocking: The vast majority of their output is over 6 minutes in length, with half of their songs being over 8 minutes and fair chunk of those breaching the 10-minute mark. Only two of their albums are under an hour long, and many of them even approach 80 minutes in length.
- Harsh Vocals
- Kill It with Fire: The appropriately titled "Burn".
- Rage Against the Heavens
- Rock Me, Asmodeus!
- Strictly Formula: For the most part, if you turn on a Project Hate album, you know what you're getting. Bombastic epic death metal with symphonic and industrial elements, female clean vocal segments to add to the melody, extremely long songs, anti-religious lyrics, groovy portions, electronic breakdowns, and occasionally a guest appearance.
- Soprano and Gravel: One of the only death metal bands to have female clean vocals.
- Vocal Tag Team
- Villain Protagonist
