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Rating: Every Hatebreed album doesn't offer much innovation, but let's leave that to bands that have a different approach to music, one of experimentation that often results in unsuccessful amalgamations of genres. Hatebreed doesn't need to innovate and experiment, therefore trying to diminish the real essence of this group with phrases like "songs are too similar" or "no innovation" means unnecessarily seeking intellectualism and forced aspects in music born without any need to present themselves differently than with their own face. Hatebreed's best weapon is a charge, which in a period when metalcore only means melodic vocals and double bass at every opportunity, is truly golden, and then a great spontaneity in creating genuinely angry and snarling songs without the usual adolescent rage of other new-generation metal-hc groups.
Noteworthy in this album are: the riffs, which unlike other hardcore bands, offer more complex rhythms and closer to thrash metal, Jamey Jasta's voice, a roar between Max Cavalera and Iena from Woptime, the excellent production that completely does justice to the band's sound brutality.
Defeatist opens the album with deadly force, Jamey Jasta's scream tearing the air supported by rolls and malicious riffs, the following Horrors of Self and Mind Over all have a similar structure with the mid-tempo interlude that really breaks with its choppy riffs; also excellent are To the Threshold and Destroy Everything, as devastating as the title suggests, with an immediate chorus and relatively low speed, bringing them much closer to metal rather than hc, even in the power of the riffs; worth mentioning are also the penultimate As Diehard As They Come, and the closing Supremacy of Self with choruses a bit reminiscent of Agnostic Front.
In conclusion an excellent album, recommended especially for those who love hard and extreme music that allows little to melody and much to anger, in which speed and hardcore attitude coexist with power and metallic riffs, drums with double bass and truly breathtaking breaks, hyper-fast and tight tempos, but not just one and a half minute shards: also notable mid-tempos and slow interludes with choppy riffs and truly exciting tempo changes.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 Defeatist (03:19)
Trapped Within Your Own Empathy,
Spiraling Into A Cycle Of Loss,
Be Mines With The Bruise Reflection,
Interdiction To Failure ???
The Choice You Do Your Selfish Punishment,
In Your Eyes Its Cursed,
Now Fix The Pure, Tortured With, Imperfection Your Hatred As Endless.
This Is My Hatred This Is My Vow,
Never To Be Broken.
Cause You Hate, Yourself,
And You Hate, This World,
And You Hate, The Fact,
That You Hate, Every Moment!
Defeatist, You And I Will Never Be The Same.
I'm Taking This Vow Of Hatred. '' Take The Vow ''
I Promise To Myself, To Never Be My Own Defeatist.
This Is My Hatred This Is My Vow,
Never To Be Broken.
Cause You Hate, Yourself,
And You Hate, This World,
And You Hate, The Fact,
That You Hate, Every Moment!
Defeatist, You And I Will Never Be The Same.
I Take This Vow,
I Take This Vow Of Hatred,
I Take This Vow,
Never To Be Broken
04 To the Threshold (02:49)
This Is The Sound Of The Lost,
The Beaten And Broken,
Rising Up and finding what has been,
Taken From Us, From The Shadows Of The Past,
From The Depth Of Our Own Failures,
Slipping Forward Into The lies,
Denying Our Demise,
Descamanting What Was Eternity
But Which You Only You Can With Tearing Apart Me,
Give Me Your Broken,
Give Me Your Beaten,
I Will Buld Them Up,
I Will Lead Them,
To The Threshold,
Make You Stronger,
Make You Believe,
I Am One In The Same,
But Now Im Stronger Than Eternity,
Within This Army,
This Is More Than A Battlecry,
Its The Blood Of My Lifeline,
Growing Faster,
This Is The Sound Of The Lost,
The Beaten And Brocken,
Descemating Your Fears,
Stronger Than Ever,
Behind Every Dream, The Young Have Retrieved/Reprieved
Accention, Reducing/Producing Prophecies, OR Instinctions Linked To Supremacy
Now We're Stronger Than Ever,
Stronger Than Ever,
Give Me Your Broken,
Give Me Your Beaten,
I Will Buld Them Up,
I Will Lead Them,
To The Threshold,
To The Threshold,
This Is More Than A Battlecry,
We Were The Broken,
We Were The Beaten,
I Was Once Like You,
Now I Push Myself To The Threshold,
Because I Am Stronger,
Because I Believe,
Now I Spit The Face Of Defeat,
Now Stronger Than All Incertainty
06 Destroy Everything (03:29)
A new life begins!
Destroy Everything! (x3)
Obliterate what makes us weak,
Destroy Everything! (x3)
Decimate what threatens me.
Cleanse this world with flame
End this, cleanse this
Rebuild and start again
Obliterate what makes us weak
End this and embrace the destruction
End this to embrace new life (new life!)
Even a nothing threat, deserves a response you won't soon forget,
I must destroy everything that tries to infect.
Even a nothing threat, deserves a response you won't soon forget,
I must destroy everything that tries to infect.
Destroy Everything! (x3)
Obliterate what makes us weak,
Destroy Everything! (x3)
Decimate what threatens me.
Cleanse this world with flame
End this, cleanse this
Rebuild and start again
Obliterate what makes us weak
End this and embrace the destruction
End this to embrace new life (new life!)
Even a nothing threat, deserves a response you won't soon forget,
I must destroy everything that tries to infect.
Even a nothing threat, deserves a response you won't soon forget,
I must destroy everything that tries to infect.
A new life begins!
Destroy Everything! (x2)
Obliterate what makes us weak,
Destroy Everything! (x3)
Decimate what threatens me.
Destroy Everything! (x3)
So a new life can begin,
Destroy Everything! (x3)
Rebuild and start again,
AGAIN!
12 As Diehard as They Come (02:16)
Some of us have had their faithful day,
When harmony fades and life stands still,
Those who are willing to sacrafice,
Were blessed with the instinct to survive.
This is for those who escaped the tourment,
You know real courage,
You are as diehard as they come.
This is for those who never wavered,
You are fearless,
You are as diehard as they come.
YOU! - ARE! - AS DIEHARD AS THEY COME!!! (x4)
Never waver, never falter,
Remain, DIEHARD!
YOU! - ARE! - AS DIEHARD AS THEY COME!!! (x2)
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By Cornholio
Hatebreed are not a band capable of particular "evolutions." They are a "steamroller" band, whose main objective is to scream all their anger while continuing to stay true to themselves.
"Destroy Everything" ... seems made for the live dimension, where the group is really remarkable, to be sung at the top of one’s lungs along with the audience.
