Hate Eternal are an uncompromising, ultra-fast death metal/grindcore band led by former Morbid Angel and Ripping Corpse guitarist Erik Rutan. Building off of a foundation put down by Floridian death metal pioneers like Death and Obituary, the band emerged in the late 1990s with a technically complex take on the genre, an esthetic that they perfected on standout LPs like Fury and Flames (2008), Phoenix Amongst the Ashes (2011), and Infernus (2015).
Hate Eternal presented a change for Rutan in that the group found him doing much of the lead singing in addition to playing guita...