BIOGRAPHY:

2004
In April 2004, the three partners in crime, Tomy Laisto, Joni Suodenjärvi and Tuomas Vähämaa found themselves in a situation, where cooperation with fourth member of their previous band started to be almost impossible. It was time to create something new, something that was to become the band we know today as Hateform.

Soon after, Petri Nyström was auditioned to handle the vocals. Petri was recruited to the band on the spot, as the aggression and integrity of he's performance proved him as the first and last candidate for this job. To complete the existing line-up, another guitar player was yet to be found.

Hateform played their first gig on June 11th 2004. On that gig, the band were forced to use Hateform's sound engineer Heikki Kaplas as a session musician to share the guitar duties with Tomy. Since Heikki was just a replacement, obvious decicion was not to do any more gigs until Hateform would find a suitable guitar player for the job.

From June to September, few guys were trying out but something just didn't match. Somewhere in July, Insomnium guitarist, Ville Vänni announced his interest to fulfil the place of the second guitarist. September he joined to band as a full member of Hateform.

Nerve wrecking rehearsing continued with Ville, since Hateform was scheduled to participate in Deathkampen 2-minitour in Finland. After the tour, Hateform had time to settle down, focus on future gigs and prepare themselves for studio sessions.

2005
was the year to showcase Hateforms first studio effort, which was scheduled to take place in February 25th to 27th at Fantom studio. In addition to playing live in various places in Finland, the rest of 2005 was devoted to send debut release worldwide to various labels, zines, radio stations and gig organizators. The self-titled demo/promo achieved positive reactions in the media and some smaller record companies presented their interest in Hateform's potential.

2006
The beginning of the year 2006, the band encountered a minor line-up change as guitarist Ville Vänni, told that he was unable to continue playing in Hateform. His medical studies and other band Insomnium were the main reasons why ways had to part. Ville promised to play, if necessary, all the scheduled gigs until June 2006 in case a new guitarist wasn't hired by then.

Fortunately, a new guitar player was in sight sooner as the band could expect. Tomy knew this amazing player, Tom Gardiner, from the bands Murdread and Scorched Earth Tactics. He came to Jyväskylä to see Hateform live and to discuss the situation with the rest of the band. He told Tomy that his part in both of those bands was at the end of the road so it would be great to have a chance to play in the same band with him and rest of the guys.

Hateform decided to give him a shot, and only a week after the first meeting in Jyväskylä, Tom was on his way for his first rehearsal with Hateform. Tom would replace Ville as soon as possible, since Hateform had quite many gigs booked already. Once again the band locked themselves in their rehearsing place and started training with Tom. Schedule was nothing less than hectic.

Living proof of Hateform's potential is that with only two weekends of rehearsing the new Hateform line-up entered the Spine band contest, and scored the second position. As a reward, Hateform was booked to play at Scooprock 2006, indoor metal festival in Mikkeli. Hateform played together gig after gig and people's reaction towards the new line-up was amazing. Hateform established them as a solid machinery of ass kicking, sharing the stage with some of the top bands in Finland.

Meanwhile, Hateform returned to Fantom studio in september to record their second promo cd, Retaliate. In addition to playing some live shows, the remaining months of 2006, band prepared themselves for new and greater achievements.

2007
Once again, huge job was ahead when it was time to start spreading latest release Retaliate to Finnish and international media. Hateform was awarded with "Demo of the month"-titles in Imperiumi, which is Finland's biggest metal website and in Soundi and Inferno magazines, two perhaps biggest monthly released music magazines in Finland. Hateform received good feedback from their latest release and now the band keeps their fingers crossed and hope that next step in Hateform's journey would be finding a way to release their first full-length album, with or without help of record labels. New material was coming with full speed and Hateform couldn't hardly wait to get back to live stages.

Patience and hard work was finally rewarded. By the end of summer 2007 Hateform signed a record contract with 7:45 Records, a new Finnish record label. With the help of Teemu Heinola and Jori Haukio as Hateform's engineers the band started recording the soon to be entitled debut album. The recordings took the time of all the weekends of october and november at Palmgren conservatory, Pori. Hateform carefully sqeezed every last bit of effort in the making, as the release date was already scheduled for early 2008. During the end of the sessions the album declared itself the name Dominance, since it unleashes the contribution of all three sources: Hateform, 7:45 Records and Ansa studios; A good jumpstart for 2008 on behalf of all parties.