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Biography
1993: HANDFUL OF HATE was put together by Nicola B.
1994: The band records the demo tape "Goetia Summa".
1996: HANDFUL OF HATE signs a deal with Northern Darkness Records for the release of two albums.
The band records its first album "Qliphothic Supremacy" at the end of 1996.
1999: Northern Darkness Records releases the second album "Hierarchy 1999".
The deal with the label ends this same year
2000: HANDFUL OF HATE records a 3 songs promo tape.
The swedish label Downfall Records offers the band to release 2 songs on a limited 7"-ep.
2001: Downfall Records releases the infamous "Death From Above EP" on 7"-ep, limited to 666 copies.
2002: The band decides to record a new 2 song promo CD. Code666 Records offers HANDFUL OF HATE a record deal for one album.
The song "Hell's carnal scream", taken from the "Promo 2002", appears on the "Better Undead Than Alive", a double compilation CD by Code666 Records.
2003: Code666 Records spawns the third full album called "ViceCrown". Warlord Records releases a limited 500 copies 7"-ep called "Scorn And Conquest" which includes either the title track from the "Promo 2002" and the Impaled Nazarene's cover "The Horny and the horned".
2004: Downfall Records releases the "Blood Calls Blood" MCD, including all remastered songs from "Promo 2001" plus an old 1999 unreleased song as bonustrack. Under license of Code666 Records, Russian label CD-Maximum releases the east -European version of "ViceCrown" album. First small european tour in England, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and Switzerland.
2005: HANDFUL OF HATE signs a one- album deal with the Italian label Cruz Del Sur Music.
2006: HANDFUL OF HATE records the fourth full- length album "Gruesome Splendour". It gets released on November the 20th.
2007: The band promotes the new album through a massive european live-gigs campaign.
After a while, the band decides to stop the activity after 14 years of work in the underground field, with the release of 4 albums, 1 mcd, 2 EPs and many concerts around Italy and Europe. With four different minds, interests and conceptions concerning the
band's next steps and efforts which have made it impossible to carry on in this troubled way. The band thanks all supporters and people who have worked with us during all these years.
"Personally I do not know yet if this decision will be an irreversible end or, in the future, with fresh thoughts, ideas and passion,
the name Handful of Hate will rise again from the ashes." - Nicola Bianchi.
2008: Handful Of Hate are working to gather a new line up to for a come back. |
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