Perseverance by Hatebreed

Perseverance, Hatebreed's second album, came out in 2002 on Universal, the big-league follow-up to Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire, the 1997 debut that had won the Connecticut crew a cult following. It put them on the Billboard 200, and it got there without sanding down a single edge.

This is hardcore built like a weight room: bruising, chugging riffs, shouted choruses and Jamey Jasta barking pep talks at anyone flat on the mat. "I Will Be Heard" is the rallying cry, a stomping, fist-up anthem that turns defiance into a singalong. Sean Martin was in the ranks by now, and it was the last Hatebreed album with guitarist Lou Richards, who left in 2002. The Rise of Brutality came next.

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