Hatebreed

From Alexisonfire to Anthrax, we ranked the greatest hardcore bands of all time. See who made the list.

Brody King is expanding his career beyond wrestling. King discusses his mission for God’s Hate, acting on I Think You Should Leave and Sound and Fury Festival.

There’s the classic adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. However, a quality band T-shirt is worth a million. Our music tastes are synonymous with our personalities and how we express ourselves, so what better way to embody this than to dive into a collection of classic T-shirts?  Alternative Press is pleased to […]

Philadelphia’s This Is Hardcore festival is back for the first time since 2019. The event will run from July 7-10. Hatebreed and Thursday will headline this year’s festival. SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Comeback Kid, Terror and Madball, among many others, also appear on the bill. Read more: Thursday talk prospect of new music, play career-spanning set—interview Both headlining […]

Born and raised in Florida, Matthew Tyler Musto—these days better known as blackbear—has been making music, and making music his life, since at least 2006.  With five studio albums and seven EPs under his belt (or should that be pelt?), releasing his latest extended play, misery lake, Aug. 13, this year finds blackbear riding high […]

As the world launched into a new millennium during the 2000s, a more modern metal sound was quickly gaining popularity in the United States. Many bands embraced this evolution. Some in particular also heavily influenced the direction of the newly created genre that was metalcore. Even though many of those bands are either not together […]

Proud New Jersey native Frank Iero is one of the scene’s most legendary guitarists and frontmen. Whether you love him from his work with My Chemical Romance, his latest solo project the Future Violents or you can’t get enough of his screams and angsty vocals in Leathermouth, it’s fair to say he’s beyond talented. Alternative Press […]

Rob Zombie is making his momentous musical return with his first single in nearly five years, “The Triumph Of King Freak (A Crypt Of Preservation And Superstition).” After Zombie announced that he had started work on his upcoming album on Aug. 1, 2017 in an Instagram post, the wait has finally come to an end. […]

It’s a big day for Hatebreed. On Friday, the Nuclear Blast band unveiled the title track of their forthcoming album Weight Of The False Self. Along with the single’s lyric video, Hatebreed have also revealed the album’s tracklisting and artwork. Read more: Stevie Lee of ‘Jackass’ and ‘American Horror Story’ dies at age 54 We […]

The heavy metal talk show Two Minutes To Late Night has joined forces with some familiar faces for a cover of Misfits‘ “Earth A.D.“ Frank Iero, Hatebreed‘s Jamey Jasta, The Dillinger Escape Plan‘s Ben Weinman, Max Weinberg and Jordan Olds were recruited for the new cover. The musician-filled Misfits cover was created in support of […]

Believe it or not, there was a time when hardcore was considered a fad. It was angry, unfocused, violent, testosterone-driven and a bunch of other adjectives that nobody wanted to be saddled with. Rock critics and commercial radio stations wanted no parts of it. Hardcore bands in the early ’80s were a tough bunch. They […]

Hardcore has gone through countless stylistic changes since its inception and has inspired a variety of movements within music. Whether it’s the early veterans of the genre such as Black Flag or later acts who spawned metalcore and heavier subgenres by branching off hardcore such as Converge, these pioneers have been repeatedly used as an […]

Hardcore and metalcore have dominated the heavy music scene throughout many eras, from the early 2000s to the 2010s and even today. The early 2000s saw the boom of the new wave of American heavy metal and the emergence of metalcore as the primary subgenre to watch. However, hardcore bands were still laying down hard […]

While people are stuck at home over the next while, picking up new skills and hobbies has been at the top of their minds. If you’ve ever had a guitar just collecting dust in the corner of your closet and you never had the time to really learn, the world has presented us all with […]

Hardcore bands are often praised for heavy instrumentals, but their lyrics are equally as important to the music quality. The artists working in this genre have often gone through life experiences leading them toward this type of music, and expressing their emotions in their lyrics reflects their skills in capturing the sentiment of so many […]

Deathcore has normalized the idea of the hardcore and death-metal scenes coming together. While that’s commonplace now, it wasn’t always like this. Even before the 2000s came and deathcore grew from being a new term to one of the biggest movements in metal, there were bands who carved the path for acts such as Suicide […]