Hatewave

The Chicago-based trio Hatewave specialized in ultra-fast death/grind metal, which was played with a non-traditional slant, perhaps owing to its members' experience in a variety of other genres, including free jazz, no wave, and experimental/noise rock. Their ties to other non-metal-oriented music scenes -- drummer Weasel Walter, for example, was a major player in the mid-'90s Chicago no wave scene that centered around the Skin Graft label -- meant the band's music was heard by many listeners, and carried by some record distributors not normally associated with the metal genre...