Black Metal from the Ukraine. Their third album from 2003.

HATE FOREST born in 1995 and split-up in 2004.
A true legend of Slavonic Black Metal, never being part of the scene, never giving interviews or making photos, the band crafted own name with their extreme individualism and estrangement.
HATE FOREST's music can be described as grim, cold, aggressive and straightforward black metal, mostly very fast with low, distorted vocals and dark ambient elements.
The band's lyrics are heavily influenced by Scythian and Slavic legends, the mythology of H. P. Lovecraft, and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. 

"Battlefields" is very carefully mastered. The most tragic and serious HATE FOREST album. Featuring documentary recordings of Ukrainian old traditional songs and a real funeral made in small Carpathian village as final track "Keening". Most of those Ukrainian nobles, which images you can see in the booklet died in battles or were executed.

Re-issue, revisited layout, CD jewel case edition.