Hatebreed Start Work On Long-Awaited Second Album (Metal Hammer UK - April 2001)

Hatebreed Start Work On Long-Awaited Second Album
added: 30/04/2001

Connecticut metalcore crew Hatebreed are working on their long awaited second album, tentatively titled 'Perseverance'.

Frontman Jamey 'Jasta ' Shanahan gave Metal Hammer an update of the follow-up to 1997's 'Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire', which is scheduled to include the songs 'Unbreakable', 'Unloved', 'I Will Be Heard', 'Remain Nameless' and 'A Final Prayer For The Human Race'.

"We're playing four or five new ones [on their recent support slot on the Sepultura US tour]. We're getting great feedback on this tour from the songs we didn't play on Tattoo The Earth. The material is better and more focused. It's expanding on the formulas that worked on the last record."

Hatebreed have helped to push the metalcore genre into the forefront. Touring consistently, they have easily become the biggest act to breakthrough in years.

"So many kids come up and say, 'I would have never listened to All Out War, Candiria or Buried Alive if I didn't heard you guys first," says Jamey proudly. "Now that we've played with Entombed, Six Feet Under, Machine Head, Type O Negative and Deftones - we come out and do what we do. We don't try to change our style to go over with those crowds. If those crowds are into us, then great. What we sing about is real. It's not for just one group of people. Anybody can get into it."

With the help of Slipknot, Hatebreed also play this summer's US Ozzfest's second stage.

"For us to be on Ozzfest is ridiculous," Shanahan says incredulously. "There are so many labels willing to pay so much money to get their bands on there. It wasn't necessarily a power move, but Slipknot and our management [No Name] just hooked us up. We're lucky because they want their fans and their people to experience real music made by real people. Slipknot are one of the few bands out there, besides Sepultura, who respect us and see us get bigger than just the punk and hardcore / metalcore circuits."

The band are also working on UK and European dates. For updates go to: www.hatebreed.com.

Rei Nishimoto - Metal Hammer