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Hatebreed is an American metalcore/hardcore band from Bridgeport, Connecticut, formed in 1994. The band released its debut album Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire in 1997, which gave the band a cult following. The band signed to Universal Records and released Perseverance in 2002, which hit the Billboard 200. The band is described to combine elements of hardcore and heavy metal. They have played a major role in the Connecticut hardcore scene.

Their songs often feature motivational lyrics, powerful and "bruising" riffs, and an overall "beatdown hardcore” sound. <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Their song “Live for This” was nominated at the Grammys in 2005 for Best Metal Performance. The group are also known for their live performances,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and have gone through multiple line up changes but lead singer Jamey Jasta has remained a stable throughout the band’s tenure. Their 8th and most recent album Weight of the False Self was released in 2020.

History

Early years and debut album (1994-2001)

Hatebreed was formed in 1994 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The founding members consisted of Jamey Jasta the frontman, Chris Beattie on bass, Dave Russo on drums along with Larry Dwyer Jr and Wayne Lozinak as the guitarists. This 5 piece began by recording a three-song demo and selling it to locals in 1995 and those songs would eventually be released on a split 7" with New York's Neglect in the same year. They followed that with the highly acclaimed EP Under the Knife scheduled to come out on Big Wheel Recreation in 1995 but then was self-released 1996, and went out on tour around the east coast/midwest supporting UKHC band Voorhees.<ref name="Glasper 2012">Template:Cite book</ref> That same year seen the departures of Larry Dwyer Jr and Dave Russo. The following year with an almost an entirely new lineup the band released their debut album Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire on Victory Records, then the home of some of the biggest bands in American hardcore. Satisfaction sold more copies than any other debut in the history of the record company. The album is viewed as classic in both the hardcore and metalcore genres.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":2">Template:Cite web</ref> They then took part in the Warped Tour in 1998. During the late 1990s and early 2000s Hatebreed went through many lineup changes, with Jasta and Beattie being the two mainstays. They continued touring heavily during this time joining the Tattoo the Earth tour in 2000 and making their first appearance at Ozzfest in 2001.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> That same year longtime drummer Matt Byrne joined the band.

Rise in popularity Perseverance and The Rise of Brutality (2002-2005)

Their tours with heavy metal bands such as Slayer, Deftones, Entombed and Napalm Death influenced their music and brought them to the attention of many non-hardcore fans. These influences were apparent on the band's next two releases. First was 2002's Perseverance, which became the band’s first to chart on the Billboard 200 peaking at number 50.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> The album has gone on to receive high praise highlighting its powerful riffs, Jasta's commanding vocals, and excellent production, making it a streamlined and brutal listening experience.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref> This was also the bands first release under Universal marking their major label debut.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> They then went on a in support of the album including their second appearance at that years Ozzfest, appearing on the Ozzfest 2002 live album.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The following year seen the release of their 3rd studio album The Rise of Brutality which charted even higher on the Billboard 200 debuting at number 30. This album is viewed as a pivotal album in Hatebreed's discography showcasing a tighter, more focused version of their metallic hardcore sound. Critically, reviewers were largely impressed with the album's unrelenting aggression and motivational lyrics.<ref>Template:Citation</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Once again they went on a extensive touring schedule for the album including taking part in The Unholy Alliance Tour in Europe with Slayer, Slipknot and Mastodon. In December 2004, it was announced that Hatebreed was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance at the 47th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles for their song "Live for This", which appeared on their album The Rise of Brutality. The award was ultimately given to Motörhead for their cover of the Metallica song "Whiplash".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Supremacy, For the Lions and Self titled (2006-2009)

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Hatebreed performing in Amsterdam in 2009

In June of 2006, Hatebreed went on an extensive European tour which included a performance at the Download Festival in Castle Donington, UK. Immediately following this European tour, they played the main stage at Ozzfest 2006 alongside DragonForce, Lacuna Coil, Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed, and co-headliners System of a Down.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The band's fourth album, Supremacy, was released in August 2006, their first through Roadrunner Records, featuring new guitarist Frank Novinec (who had previously spent time playing with Ringworm, Terror, and Integrity). Jasta described it as an "all-out onslaught of completely adrenaline-charged, in-your-face brutality".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The album debuted at number 31 on the Billboard 200 and became their first to chart in top 100 in 7 several countries outside the US.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It was met with mostly positive reception, Blabbermouth.net wrote “The bottom line is that you will find in "Supremacy" exactly what you would expect from HATEBREED. Though not as memorable as the excellent "Perseverance", the album largely succeeds at giving the fans what they want.”<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

On September 13, 2006, former guitarist Lou Richards committed suicide at the age of 35; he had played on Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire and Perseverance before leaving the band in 2002.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Hatebreed headlined the second stage on the 2007 Ozzfest tour. Hatebreed appeared at Wacken Open Air festival in 2008 alongside Iron Maiden, Children of Bodom, and Avantasia. In April 2008, Hatebreed signed a worldwide deal with Koch Records.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On February 9, 2009, guitarist Sean Martin quit the band.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Sean quit the band to pursue other interests in music that are more studio-related. However, Sean remains close to and in contact with Hatebreed members. This resulted in the return of founding guitarist Wayne Lozinak. In May of that year they released a cover album For the Lions which featured covers of other hardcore bands like Sick of it All and Agnostic Front. On September 2, 2009 they released their first concert DVD, titled Live Dominance which debuted at number 1 on the Billboard DVD chart.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2009, the band released For the Lions on May 5, a studio record consisting of covers of songs by artists that have influenced the band's development. Artists covered included Metallica, D.R.I., Crowbar, and Cro-Mags.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Also in the same year, Hatebreed's sixth studio album, a self titled Hatebreed, was released on September 29. The record debuted at number 37 on the Billboard 200 and was met with positive reception.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

The Divinity of Purpose and The Concrete Confessional (2010-2016)

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Hatebreed at the Oberhausen Impericon Festival in 2016

In 2010, Hatebreed participated in the third annual Mayhem Festival, alongside 3 Inches of Blood, Shadows Fall, and other bands. On February 17, 2011, it was announced that Hatebreed would partake in the fourth annual Mayhem Festival to yet again headline the Jägermeister stage for three dates only.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2012 the band went on Australian tour alongside the Cro-Mags and Biohazard, They also held a celebration tour for the 10th anniversary of their album Perseverance.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Hatebreed also got to play on the 2013 Vans Warped Tour in Australia alongside bands like Parkway Drive, The Offspring, Simple Plan, The Used, We Came as Romans, Man Overboard, H2O and many more, as well as the United Kingdom Warped Tour alongside Coheed and Cambria, Rise Against, Enter Shikari, Flogging Molly, Like Moths to Flames, The Wonder Years, Sublime with Rome and much more.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Their seventh studio album, The Divinity of Purpose, was released on January 25, 2013, in Europe and on January 29 in North America. The cover art was done by Eliran Kantor (Testament, Sodom).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The album became their highest charting on the Billboard 200 peaking at number 20, it also charted at number 1 on the US Hard Rock Chart.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Along with the chart success the album was met with generally positive reviews, AllMusic's James Christopher Monger, the reviewer characterized the record as "Meatier and more hardcore-centric than their last offering.”<ref>Template:Citation</ref> In 2014 they embarked on a Latin America tour alongside Napalm Death. They went on a co-headlining North America tour with the Butcher Babies that went into 2015.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Hatebreed released its eighth album, The Concrete Confessional, on May 13, 2016. The album debuted at number 25 on the Billboard 200 and charted even higher in Belgium, Austria and Switzerland. Like many of their previous albums it received positive reception, keeping up with the style they are known for.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Weight of the False Self (2017-2020)

Hatebreed was announced to take part on the 2017 Vans Warped Tour, as they appeared on the Monster Energy Stage alongside other bands like Gwar, CKY, Carnifex, Municipal Waste, After the Burial, Silent Planet, Anti Flag and many more groups rounded out the lineup. Hatebreed also toured extensively in celebration of two of their albums anniversary’s dubbed the “20 Years of Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire & 15 Years of Perseverance” tour which extended into 2018.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> They also embarked on the EMP Persistence Tour alongside Madball and Terror.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2019 they embarked on a 25th anniversary tour.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> After touring the early part of 2019 with Obituary, Cro-Mags, Terror, and Fit for an Autopsy, Jamey Jasta said the band would spend the second half of 2019 writing and recording a new album.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The band's ninth studio album Weight of the False Self was released on November 27, 2020.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The album was met with positive reception, Regarding the work, Dom Lawson of Blabbermouth.net said that "This is their strongest album in over a decade and the perfect antidote to looming grey skies."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Working on new material (2021-present)

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Hatebreed in 2023 at the Full Force festival in Ferropolis, Germany.

In the summer of 2021, Hatebreed, along with Trivium, served as an opening act for Megadeth and Lamb of God on the "Metal Tour of the Year". Hatebreed replaced In Flames, who were forced to withdraw from the tour due to international visa issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The band continued touring holding a 20th anniversary tour for Perseverance.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In the summer of 2023 they held a European tour titled the “European Slaughterlust” which featured band such as Unearth and Terror as support.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2024 Hatebreed embarked on a 30th anniversary tour which included a special Home State show, titled "The March Metal Matinee" which was held on March 17, 2024, at the Toyota Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford, CT. It featured bands such 100 Demons and Shadows Fall.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> On November 13, 2024 Hatebreed split from founding member Chris Beattie in a 2025 interview Beattie stated it was "completely unexpected." Adding “it was not my decision to leave the band. Someone saw an opportunity to get me out of the picture, and that's where I am now."<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref> Matt Bachand was then chosen as his replacement on their tour dates.<ref name=":0" />

Hatebreed is currently working on a new album, which is tentatively due for release in 2025.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In June of 2025 guitarist Wayne Lozinak stepped away during the band’s European tour due to a brain tumor diagnosis. On July 21, 2025 they released new music for the first time in 5 years with the single “Make the Demons Obey” Matt Bachand then took over for the rest of the tour.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Lozinak underwent successful surgery to remove the tumor in August.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In the summer of 2025, they resurrected the Summer Slaughter tour, headlining alongside Bleeding Through and Malevolence.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In October of 2025, they supported Killswitch Engage on their UK/Ireland tour, this also seen the return of Lozinak post surgery.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Musical style and influences

Hatebreed's musical style has been described as metalcore<ref name="rollingstone1">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="allmusic bio">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and hardcore punk,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> They have blended influences from hardcore and punk rock, as well as heavy metal subgenres such as thrash metal<ref name="allmusic bio" /> and groove metal,<ref name=":3">Template:Cite web</ref> alongside other bands in the 1990s metalcore scene (such as Earth Crisis, All Out War, Integrity and Converge).<ref name="rh">Ross Haenfler, Straight Edge: Clean-living Youth, Hardcore Punk, and Social Change. Rutgers University Press. Template:ISBN. pp. 87-88.</ref> Jasta has also called Hatebreed 'Celtic Frost hardcore'.<ref name="blistering1">Template:Cite web</ref>

Jasta’s lyrics focus on more positive and uplifting messages in a 2016 interview he stated “I write a lot of positive lyrics because there’s always hope, no matter what you’re going through. Adding “ I want to be able to sing songs for the next 10 years that will always remind me that life’s worth living.”<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Hatebreed's influences include metal and hardcore bands such as Agnostic Front, Carcass, Celtic Frost, Earth Crisis, Entombed, Integrity, Killing Time, Metallica, Obituary, Pantera, Sepultura, Sheer Terror, Suicidal Tendencies, Cro-Mags, Sick of It All and Slayer.<ref name="blistering1" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Controversies

In the mid-1990s, vocalist of emoviolence band In/Humanity, Chris Bickel produced a zine calling out Victory Records for their business practices. Bickel attended a Hatebreed show and was quickly surrounded by the band, which threatened him with violence and called him homophobic slurs. After the show, frontman and vocalist Jamey Jasta declared himself a homophobe and again threatened Bickel with violence in a voicemail.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In/Humanity played this voicemail to open their shows, and when Hatebreed played In/Humanity's hometown of Columbia, South Carolina, between-song banter included their hatred of Bickel and his band.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Hatebreed is a longtime sponsor of UFC fighter Chris Camozzi. At UFC 158 in Montreal on March 16, 2013, Camozzi claimed he was required by the UFC "for some reason" to cover Hatebreed's logos, on his T-shirt and ring introduction banner, with black tape.<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref>

In 2016, former drummer Nick "Nickel P" Papantoniou (a member of the band from 1996 to 1997) was sentenced to 45 years in prison after being convicted of felony murder.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> That conviction was overturned in January 2023 when it was discovered by Attorney James Ruane and proven at trial that Papantoniou's trial attorney had brokered a deal with the prosecution on behalf of another client to testify against Papantoniou and that deal was never disclosed to the court or Papantoniou. The court found Papantoniou's original attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel and reversed the finding and ordered a new trial to occur.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Chris Beattie lawsuit

Following his dismissal from the band in 2024 Chris Beattie sued Hatebreed in July of 2025, the lawsuit directly targeted lead singer Jamey Jasta. With Beattie accusing him of "increasingly erratic" behavior in the months leading up to his firing, ultimately making a "unilateral decision to cut Beattie off from his career, fans, touring, and substantial expected revenue."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> However, the lawsuit directly points to a 2015 agreement between himself, Jasta, and drummer Matthew Byrne that says they were each “entitled to 25% of the sales and revenue from merchandise while the other two members of the band received 12.5%, accounting for the remaining 25% of sales.” On September 25, Hatebreed and Jasta filed their motion to have parts of Beattie’s complaints stricken from the lawsuit. According to a report from Billboard, “the legal effort sought to paint the ex-bassist as a “disgruntled former band member” who managed to “erroneously assert[s] a right to remain a permanent member. That, however, flies in the face of what Hatebreed said was a relationship that was “terminable at-will.”<ref name=":4">Template:Cite web</ref> Hatebreed’s filing also stated that Beattie had signed a merchandise contract in 2015 together with Jasta and drummer Matthew Byrne. That deal outlined that each of the three would receive 25% of the merch income, while the remaining two members would each receive 12.5%. The group also emphasized that the agreement did not give Beattie any rights to the Hatebreed name.<ref name=":4" />

Legacy

Hatebreed have sold over 1.5 million records in North America,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and have become a notable act within the hardcore scene and a stable in their home state of Connecticut. They have also been considered one of the pioneers and leading forces of the metalcore genre, alongside other bands such as Converge, Killswitch Engage, and Integrity. They are considered foundational to the development of metalcore due to their blending influences from hardcore and punk rock, as well as heavy metal subgenres such as thrash metal<ref name="allmusic bio" /> and groove metal.<ref name="rh" /><ref name=":3" /> their album Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire is often cited as a landmark album in both hardcore and metalcore. Critics and fans regard it as a “hardcore classic.”<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> Bands such as Knocked Loose, All That Remains,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Whitechapel,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Terror,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Ingested,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> All Shall Perish<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and Parkway Drive have all cited Hatebreed as a influence.

Band members

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Current

  • Jamey Jasta – lead vocals (1994–present)
  • Matt Byrne – drums (2001–present)
  • Frank Novinec – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2006–present)
  • Wayne Lozinak – lead guitar, backing vocals (1994–1996, 2009–present)

Touring

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  • Larry Dwyer Jr. – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1994–1996)
  • Dave Russo – drums (1994–1996)
  • Nick "Nickel P" Papantoniou – drums (1996–1997)
  • Matt McIntosh – lead guitar, backing vocals (1996–1999)
  • Jamie "Pushbutton" Muckinhaupt – drums (1997–1999)
  • Rigg Ross – drums (1999–2001)
  • Lou Richards – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1996–2002; died 2006)
  • Sean Martin – lead guitar, backing vocals (1999–2009); rhythm guitar (2002–2006)
  • Chris Beattie – bass (1994–2024)

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Discography

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Awards and nominations

Grammy Award

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2005 “Live for This” Best Metal Performance Template:Nom

Revolver

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2011<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Jamey Jasta Revolver's 100 Greatest Living Rock Stars Template:Won

Loudwire Music Awards

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2012<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> “Put It to the Torch” Death Match Hall of Fame Template:Won

Revolver Golden Gods Awards

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2013 Hatebreed Best Live Act Template:Nom

Libera Awards

Year Nominee / work Award Result
2013 Hatebreed Best Live Act Template:Nom

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