Album review : HATEBREED – The Rise Of Brutality / Supremacy (2CD Deluxe Ed)

Cherry Red [release date: 14.07.23]

“Heavy Music is this cleansing, therapeutic and cathartic experience for so many”. So says Jamie Jasta, frontman of US Grammy nominated, Metal/ Hardcore band, Hatebreed.

No surprise then to learn that his band are longtime friends of, as well as one time support acts for cutting edge metal luminaries like Black Label Society, Slipknot and Slayer.

Filling the gap since 2020’s Weight Of The False Self, (the band’s 9th album release since 1997), this twinpack CD reissue captures the band well and truly on the rise, and each CD carries a bonus track.

CD1: The Rise Of Brutality (2003)
There’s a certain kineticism and freedom of movement in Hatebreed’s brutal metalcore. ‘Live For This ‘ and ‘This Is Now’ just radiate energy. There’s also an intensity to the music, using it as an emotional power, disturbing, lyrical, technical, dark in places, light in others. ‘Live For This’ was nominated for a Grammy award in 2004.

CD2: Supremacy (2006)
The visceral power of raw, thundering, bass heavy guitars behind Jasta’s elemental vocals and barbed, politicised lyrics, continue to give the band’s songs an emotional weight, as they throw out bold statements to grab hold of the listener/audience. The explosive ’Defeatist’ and ‘Divine Judgement’ work best.

This was the band’s fourth album, and by then it was clear that Hatebreed were a band walking their very own tightrope, and it’s quite some balancing act.

To paraphrase Jasta in an interview with The Partyflock website: “There’s nothing better than loud amps in your face, cranked up riffs, and lyrics that give you a charge”. ****

Review by Brian McGowan

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