Hatebreed

Hatebreed came roaring out of Connecticut's hardcore scene, later making New Haven home base, with Jamey Jasta barking over the top of every lineup change the band has ever gone through. Their 1997 debut, Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire, built them a cult following the hard way, one show at a time.

Perseverance, released in 2002, took the pit into the Billboard 200. It's a blunt instrument of a record: riffs that land like body blows, breakdowns that stop time, and lyrics that play like pep talks shouted through a megaphone. "I Will Be Heard" is the thesis statement, a fist-in-the-air anthem with a title that doubles as a vow. The Rise of Brutality followed in 2003, and "Live for This" earned the band a Grammy nomination in 2005, which is not a sentence anybody predicted for a band this proudly ugly. Supremacy in 2006 brought "Destroy Everything", a title that tells you everything.

Jasta has been the one constant, with Wayne Lozinak and Frank Novinec on guitar, Chris Beattie on bass and Matt Byrne on drums in the current crew. They made their name as a live band, and they have kept at it into an eighth album, Weight of the False Self, in 2020, still preaching self-belief at maximum volume. They remain a major force in Connecticut hardcore.

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