After 15 successful years in HATEBREED one can pat oneself on the back definitely! The self-titled 5th studio-release beams with pride and polarizes the field of vision of every mate willing to buy as an absolutely must-have nearly penetrating. Once HATEBREED, always HATEBREED. This presumes not only to the crowd grown over the years, no, this presumes also to the immense chunk of rage embedded in the Connecticut guys’ bellies. One can indulge in the erroneous belief that the tons of gigs played in the past could lead them into certain one-dimensional behavior and belittlement. Well, one could… Instead of this Jasta and Co. play through other playgrounds and pimp scene-classics by the Misfits, Agnostic Front, Slayer and other top acts with the HATEBREED trademarks on the lately released tribute album For The Lions. One can think that this journey could be the kick-off to fathom the brutality and identity-scale with Hatebreed a blink of an eye later. Phat mosh and neckbreaking tracks as Become The Fuse or Everyone Bleeds Now are also a fist in your face like the typical bulldozing HATEBREED pit-hymns or raging Metal attacks (Between Hell And Heartbeat, Hands Of A Dying Man). But something changed as well! What was all over town is permuted by Jasta: he detects his mighty voice new and inserts sing-parts at times. The hammer-track In Ashes They Shall Reap is rising up to an ultimate hammer-track exactly for this reason maybe, Everlasting Scar mutates to a popular song in Ryker’s or Sick Of It All manner by this. Completely without vocals Umdiminished satisfies as a dark instrumental slide on the other hand, No Halos For The Heartless ploughs in the direct opposition and glistens with a milling hookline with the special lighter effect for gigs. But never fear! The unusual elements complete the sound at best and should care for anticipation and a cliff-hanging interest igniting in every fan! And like I said before: Once HATEBREED, always HATEBREED!