JAMEY JASTA On New HATEBREED Music: 'We'll Probably Have A Single Any Day Now, Or Maybe Even Two Singles' – BLABBERMOUTH.NET

In a new interview with Into The Necrosphere, HATEBREED frontman Jamey Jasta spoke about the progress of the songwriting and recording sessions for the band’s follow-up to 2020’s „Weight Of The False Self“ album. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): „Yeah, I think creatively the ideas are all there, the lyrics are all there, the music’s all there. I’ve been going around taking different meetings with labels.“
He continued: „It was kind of funny and cool — I just mentioned in passing that we were free agents, and then that went kind of semi viral or something, because then we got hit up by every label under the sun. And that was really nice to see that there was interest there from all these labels. ‚Cause I am one of those people that I really believe that your next biggest, best song is always in you. You just have to get to that point where you can channel it or you can grab it out of the ether. Anybody can do it. You just have to get there, and you have to figure out the path there. And now that ‚Weight Of The False Self‘ is finding fans, I thought, ‚Yeah, I could expand on a lot of these topics. But then there was also new topics that I had never touched on before that I had been writing about and riffing out about.“
Jasta added: „The real sort of mother lode of riffs that I wrote that I got inspired was right after Milwaukee [Metal Fest], because you get this post-festival sort of slump where you’re, like, ‚Damn, now what am I gonna do?‘ And I had to go to Europe right away. But TESTAMENT had given me a guitar — they did a deal with Dean, and they gave me this beautiful guitar. And so I just started riffing out on that guitar as soon as I got back. And I don’t know if it just had good energy from the festival in it or if it had a different feel of the neck, but I started messing around with different frets and different placements… But just having that experience and then listening back to ‚Weight Of The False Self‘ and going, ‚All right, yeah, I’m ready. I’ve got enough.‘ I had 24 topics kind of written on a vision board, and I thought, ‚All right, I’ve gotta narrow those down to 14. Can I combine?‘ And then I kept going, kept going, and yeah, now it’s… I mean, we’ll probably have a single any day now, or maybe even two singles.“
HATEBREED spent 2024 celebrating its 30th anniversary with several tours. It was par for the course with the Grammy-nominated Connecticut-based hardcore icons, who are road warriors, in addition to being one of the most impactful and enduring bands of the modern era.
Last month, the band announced it was resurrecting the beloved and annual „Summer Slaughter“ tour for 2025, which kicks off July 8 in St. Petersburg, Florida and runs through July 28 in Grand Rapids. Support for this year’s run will include FUGITIVE, GRIDIRON, MALEVOLENCE, INCITE, ESCUELA GRIND and SNUFFED ON SIGHT on select dates.
HATEBREED celebrated its 30th anniversary with a North American tour last fall. Support on the trek came from CARCASS, HARMS WAY and CRYPTA.
With dozens of pit-stirring anthems across their eight catalog albums, HATEBREED are celebrating three decades of ruthless breakdowns and consistently sold-out shows the world over. Over the course of their career, the band has gone from playing basements and backyards to being a featured, must-see attraction on countless festivals like Graspop Metal Meeting, Ozzfest, Warped and Download alongside massive high-profile tours.
Recently described by Forbes as „more relevant than ever in the metal and hardcore community,“ HATEBREED remains one of the most definitive live acts in music today and recently celebrated a milestone with their track „Looking Down The Barrel Of Today“, which surpassed 75 million global streams on Spotify alone while generating over 600,000 global equivalents across all digital service providers, making it their single biggest career streaming track of the modern era. To date, HATEBREED has sold over 1.5 million albums in North America alone.
Press photo courtesy of Atom Splitter PR
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