HATEBREED
PERSEVERANCE
UNIVERSAL
Following a substantial label upgrade from independent Victory to megabuck Universal, Hatebreed's much-anticipated follow-up to 1997's Satisfaction is the Death of Desire verifies that hating is still the band's business, and business is still indeed good. Channeling their exceptionally keen take on the ugliest of all human emotions into the most brutal hardcore imaginable, Hatebreed strays little from their previous vein; the arrangements are fairly simple (for hardcore) with song structures harboring those mega transitions known to stir a mosh pit up to its full potential. Lyrically, Hatebreed ignores political and social topics, and concentrates on emotional responses that originate closer to the brain stem than the neo-cortex.
-- CF
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