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Rating: 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 despite the risk of seeming one-dimensional (although I think they couldn't care less). With the end of 2006, it's time for a new album release, which indeed confirms what I just said. The five shady characters from Connecticut have consistently been able to produce albums of great impact and violence for over a decade, garnering a large fanbase and kickstarting the so-called “metal-core” phenomenon.
With this “Supremacy,” the band does not disappoint; rather, it satisfies all those who expect from them a healthy dose of violence and anger in full hard-core style. The album opens with "Defeatist", the song and single of the album, which seems to be one of the most successful and continues along the same lines with songs like "Horrors of self" and "To the Treshold". Killer riffs and screamed anger without much fuss or finesse, this is the formula that remains constant for every Hatebreed album. Unmissable are songs like "Destroy Everything" which, with an immediate and catchy chorus, 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. In short, Hatebreed do not change their approach by a single iota and probably from a band like this, whose objective is certainly not to innovate with every album release but to remain true to their line, it's right that it should be so. After participating in various Ozzfest, touring with people like Slayer, and the frontman James Jasta hosting the show Headbangers Ball on MTV2, they have reached a nice dose of fame earned with effort.
The album is not particularly exciting, especially compared to its predecessors, but if you “frequent” the genre, it is right to support this band that puts so much passion into what it does and never disappoints.
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 cretinalbo88
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.
An excellent album, recommended especially for those who love hard and extreme music that allows little to melody and much to anger.
