Bristol-based Hateful Abandon refuse to nestle into any classification. Their genre-blurring sound has been described as "a post-apocalyptic journey that isn't bound by artificial genre conventions, incorporating the best elements of the rebellious ideology of Crass, the original spirit of industrial innovation that drove label's like Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records, and the somber post punk and gothic rock of bands like Joy Division and Killing Joke."