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Who the Hell Listens to Hatebreed?
Seriously? Do you know anybody that has a Hatebreed album? They must be out there because these guys appear to have a huge-ass following. I just punished myself by listening to their latest album, Hatebreed. Some of the riffs are actually pretty cool, but the content is just way too cheesy to overlook. I thought bands were done with that East Coast hardcore breakdown shit? You know what I’m talking about – that part in the song that goes, “Dun-dun-dun-dun. (pause) Dun-Dun. (pause) Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun.” Weak-sauce.
The whole tough guy/hardcore thing is really unappealing. I’m almost positive that if you wear a Hatebreed shirt you’re pretty much guaranteed to never have a woman speak to you. The whole album just comes across as 15 tracks of pre-pubescent hormonal frustration. Take a look at these lyrical gems:
“Born to bleed, fighting to succeed, built to endure what this world throws at me!”
“Every lasting scar shows us what’s it taken to be who we are.”
“You fucking bleed now! ERrrrrrrrah! This will be the bleeding of your life!”
How this band got so popular is beyond me. They’re headlining the Decimation of the Nation Tour over Cannibal Corpse and Hate Eternal for fuck’s sake. Although, I guess that’s actually a good thing because then I don’t have to sit through Hatebreed to watch Cannibal Corpse tear it up. And yes, I’ve seen Hatebreed live once at Ozzfest and they blew goats.
Hey, Jamey Jasta, I got news for you: You weren’t the first one to wear a bandana on stage:
As if all that wasn’t bad enough, for some reason white-pride and neo-nazi assholes have taken the band’s logo and used it as a mark of their ilk:
Did you spot it yet? Yeah, it’s most likely not the band’s fault, but still – what the hell? I can’t wait to hang out with THESE GUYS at the beer garden between sets. Jesus.
Written by DS
Dan Spiteri is the owner and main shenanigan distributor of Bay Area Metal Scene. When he's not blasting his hearing into oblivion, you can find him doing "outdoorsy" stuff like skiing, bike riding and drinking cheap beer.
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I heard that one song of there’s that goes dun dun dun.
I just saw your picture too! What a GEEK!! go back to listening to fall out boy you moron. This is the first time I have ever visited your site and it wil definitely be my last. When I saw this article I thought hmmmm another moron trying to sway people to like the same metal everyone else listens to. I’d love to listen to Hatebreed Breakdowns while I jump up and down on your F*%$#@G Head! Have another Latte you emo F@$K!!
A challenger appears http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQuswBSgB0
They were fun to mosh to at Mayhem Fest, that said I not going to listen to them ever again.
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Its people like you who would have the balls to diss a band for jealous purposes and credit bands like cannibal corpse afterwards… the band is liked enough by people to the point where they became mainstream… good for them! If your one of them scene kids who badmouths mainstream bands… grow the fuck up, its just music!
and BTW, I thought your comment on the [""The whole tough guy/hardcore thing is really unappealing. I’m almost positive that if you wear a Hatebreed shirt you’re pretty much guaranteed to never have a woman speak to you.""] is quite humorous considering your writing a thread on hating east coast hardcore when you hail from the bay area… I dont know if youve been anywhere else in the country, but the bay area is known for 3 things… Metallica, Rice-A-Roni, and homosexuals… So I guess your points are pretty null and void! No need to comment back, I will most likely not be finding this tiny thread again!
Metallica is from L.A. read your history before you say they are from the bay area. Autopsy, Exodus, Death Angel, Testament are bands that came from the bay area and attracted bands from L.A. to leave and move north. East coast and L.A. are areas for mainstream acts and that’s cool, bay area fans happen to like underground acts and is known for having some of the best pits(circle pits in particular) in the U.S.. The bay area has a rich underground history, which anyone who has been interested in metal/heavy music as a whole should know.
despite ill prob get dissed for being a chick with an opinion on metal, i have to say that I AM a Hatebreed fan from as “Diehard as They Come” , “Perseverance”, “Destroy Everything” their music has pushed me when i needed a hard push. sooo that’s it \m/
ps Suicidal was a major influence for Hatebreed hence the Suicidal Tendencies t-shirts and hoodies Jamey sports like 40% of the time. So he probably knew he wasn’t the first with the bandanas.
Obviously you’re the poster child for a typical West coast spineless Bay Area socialist. Their lyrics are about reality and life, and are more motivating and power driven than a bunch of skinny stoners singing about pixies and whining about the government. Fuck it’s embarrassing being raised in such a spineless area. Shit, apparently even some of the rockers here are a bunch of pansies. Why don’t you blog on a fuckin Emo website.
Hey DS, I figured I’d write this before you boot me off your website. I just saw your picture, and at the 2 tenths of a second mark I realized why you have to talk shit about a successful band. Your Ichabod crane looking ass got his ass kicked over and over again in school by someone wearing a bandana. When you’re writing your lame patsy blogs, you’re probably on your laptop in a coffee shop as a typical self proclaimed intellectual. Well if you’re so damn intellectual, you’d realize the reason metal has different sub genres is because the different sounds serve different purposes. If you had class you wouldn’t drink cheap beer, and you had any manhood, you’d relate to Hatebreed. You probably think Metallica is so wonderful, and have jerked off to James Hetfield several times by now. Well if you want to talk about complex metal riffs and song structures, Maiden and Opeth make Metallica (especially newer Metallica) sound basic. All I’m saying is, think first before opening your cock holster.
Hatebreed are pretty awesome if you’re a suburban white boy with no real problems, except for maybe being a real closet case who can’t talk about people who criticize their taste in music without calling them “fags.”
Face it, you tough talkers have wet dreams about bottoming for Jamey Jasta.
That was the weakest argument I’ve ever seen or heard. I wasn’t criticizing his taste in music. I was criticizing him criticizing someone else’s taste in music. It also looks like you can’t bash someone without saying something about gays as well (wet dream). Either you didn’t give your lame input much thought, or you have down syndrome. Tough guy with inner city problems. Go OD on heroin.
Hatebreed is music for Bros and idiots that don’t know what metal is.
Hatebreed is not east coast hardcore, they are brocore bullshit that should be erased. real east coast Harcore is Regan Youth, Cro-Mags and early Agnostic Front to name a few
The reason why hatebreed is so big is because 13 year old kids don’t know any better
and if anyone thinks that Suicidal Tendencies is a band like hatebreed, think again dumbass!!!!
Well Well, another alter boy with a fantasy that he knows better. This isn’t a discussion about Hatebreed being the best metal band, or even the best band in any Genre. It’s about certain bands being good at what they do. A real metal/music fan would know that Hatebreed has its place Just like any other band toward the top of their Genre. No, Hatebreed is not pure hardcore (nice observation cheesedick). What they and bands like Throwdown have done is, blend hardcore and metal better than anyone else has.
You don’t think I know metal? I was listening to Sabbath, Priest, Maiden, Saxon, Accept, Testament, Venom, and Slayer when you were probably still shitting yellow, or at least still tossing off to the lingerie section of the sears catalog (Now you shit your pants in the color brown). There are a lot of bands Like hatebreed out there, but you and all your little goody tooshu friends saw hatebreed tattooed on some skinhead punk and assumed they stand for that type of mentality. So you all jumped on the bandwagon and had to bash the band. Looks like you’re the 13 year old DUMBASS!!! Besides ass clown, if the band offends you that much, you aren’t a metal head. You need to go listen to Katy Perry, Brittney spears, or the Jonas brothers. You embarrass the metal world, fuckin pansy. Good news for you retard, I’m looking at the Walgreens ad, and it appears tampons are on sale.
Bullshit, retard. There are tons of bands that have blended hardcore and metal better than shitty Hatebreed. Bands like the Cro-Mags and D.R.I. completely DEMOLISH anything that Hatebreed has ever and will ever put out. Now go educate yourself, stupid kid.
In case you haven’t noticed, Hatebreed are supporters of heavy metal (^the photo of Jasta with a Death shirt, for one). That’s just one thing to respect about them. You should look into the For the Lions album. They cover songs from some great metal bands, and they do a pretty fucking good job at it, especially their version of Slayer’s “Ghosts of War”. Probably the best cover of a Slayer song I have ever heard.
I believe this post is nothing more than just an amateur, one-sided opinion aimed at attacking Hatebreed and their fans. I, personally, enjoy listening to Hatebreed as much as I enjoy listening to metal, but don’t call me a fan. I enjoy metal of many genres. You can say that I have poor taste because I enjoy listening to Hatebreed, but I’ll say that you’re the one with poor taste, not just for not being able to accept the fact that someone like myself can enjoy listening to them, but also because you seem to not find any ability to appreciate the band.
that’s exactly the problem, Jamey is a cheesedick that has a different metal band-shirt for each day of the month. Trying to backhandedly ride on the coattails of other bands
Are you saying that he shouldn’t be allowed to wear a metal band shirt? That’s a retarded argument. Everyone should have the right to wear a metal band shirt if they want. And it isn’t “riding coattails” if he does.
It’s good to see that someone in here actually has a good concept of reality (meaning Byron), my hat’s off to you bro.
And as for homochavez, apparently the chemicals of Oleoresin Capsicum found in many peppers has highly affected your brain. Only few people use the term “cheese dick” and I am one of them. So considering the odds of someone using it besides myself in only 18 prior posts could only mean 1 thing. There is a copy cat in our midst who is not creative enough to come up with his own material. Besides Juan, two, or three, or whatever your name is, if you know for an absolute fact that Jasta has a new shirt every month, you must follow him very very closely. Whether it be out of pure fanship, or despiteful obsession.
Feliz ano nuevo, senor eater.
good on hatebreed for covering this, they b much better if they played old school hardcore/crossover all the time.
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FUCK DO NOT LOSE YOUR TIME FINDING THAT WILL CONVINCE PEOPLE TO DO TO LIKE HATEBREED DEICH ONLY BECAUSE OF YOUR COMMENTS INUTIO FUCK OFF!!!! WHO WILL LIKE ALWAYS LIKE HATEBREED CONSEQUENCES OF DEPENDENT AND I ALWAYS WILL BE SUPPORTING THEM NOW FUCK YOU.
“– that part in the song that goes, “Dun-dun-dun-dun. (pause) Dun-Dun. (pause) Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun.” Weak-sauce.”
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hatebreed sucks, that douche in the band needs to take that death shirt off cause he does it no justice.
i think up yours is in hatebreed
dude u r so extreme
Great article. I’m sick of the usual metal sites posting updates about the shittiest fucking bands on earth just because they’re sort of kind of almost associated with metal. Let the mainstream hold their punches. Metal will never be about that.
Hatebreed is ridiculously awful.
So is Cannibal Corpse, though.
What is that article? do you trying to convence people to not like hatebreed? I actually don’t like it, but, com’on! are you a 15 years kid?
Cannibal Corpse? Yeah, awesome. Tell you what, instead of singing songs about fulfilling your dreams, never accepting defeat and respecting your friends and family – which is the basis of all hardcore music, instead let’s all sing songs about women getting fucked with knives and shooting blood from your dick.
Fucking retard.
I am a fan of heavy music whether it’s old school thrash, death metal, crossover, or hardcore.
It’s easy to slam on Hatebreed because they are popular, but you are missing out on some killer riffs. Listen to their first full length (Satisfaction…), and you’ll hear a hardcore band steeped in love for old Sepultura and Slayer.