Hatebreed have now been around for nearly 20 years. In a way it seemed surprising as they certainly don\u2019t strike me as a band that have been around for \u201ca long time\u201d, they\u2019ve just always been there. Always been consistent, retaining their fanbase, their sound, their record output, their integrity and of course tour schedule. They just seem to be one of those bands that keep \u2018em coming and before you know it they\u2019ve been around longer than the majority of the young and modern bands, you\u2019ll hear on the radio, will ever hope to stick around for. This is not an easy feat in this day and age. Always ones to wear their hearts on their sleeves the band pretty much get this across early on with \u2018Honor Never Dies\u2019 where vocalist Jamey Jasta screams \u201cSometimes, standing for what you believe, means standing alone\u201d in a tribute to those servicemen that have fought and eventually died alone for their country \u2013 make no mistakes, there is nothing lightweight about Harebreed, especially their song\/lyrical content. This sets the bar early and effectively and there\u2019s no time for resting. \u2018The Language\u2019 is sure to be a new live favourite with its pummelling drums courtesy of Matt Byrne, this track combines the best of metal and hardcore so wonderfully right down to the break down, you can practically feel the sweat and fury of the moshpits.
\nOver the years of relentless touring Hatebreed have carved their brand of metalcore and have never strayed far from the blueprints they set out years ago, and there are few bands that can carry this off. How they manage to pack so many crushing riffs into one album, into one career to be fair, is quite something. With Guitarist Wayne Lozniak returning to the band in 2009 after a lengthy absence the band are clearly continuing to unleash these gargantuan sounds that have become their calling card over the years. The band, under their own admission, swayed away from this for a while, but made a point when preparing to make \u2018The Divinity of Purpose\u2019 the emphasis was on stripping it back to what they love best and that was no messing around, lyrically or musically, the idea was to get everything out there in the most simple and effective manner, with tunes like \u2018Before The Fight Ends\u2019 You\u2019, title track \u2018The Divinity Of Purpose\u2019 and the brutal, thrash leaning, album closer \u2018Time to Murder It\u2019 (presumably not a track about computers), you would be confident in saying they have more than achieved what they were setting out to do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hatebreed have now been around for nearly 20 years. In a way it seemed surprising as they certainly don\u2019t strike me as a band that have been around for \u201ca long time\u201d, they\u2019ve just always been there. Always been consistent, retaining their fanbase, their sound, their record output, their integrity and of course tour schedule. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cd_reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}