HATEBREED have shared "Fatal Paradox", the title track from their tenth studio album, due November 6 via BLKIIBLK — the heavy metal imprint of Frontiers Label Group, and a new home for a band that spent most of its career elsewhere.
Jamey Jasta's description of the song doubles as a spec sheet. "It's straightforward, in-your-face HATEBREED. Fast. Hard. It gets down to business and comes up for air two-and-a-half minutes later."
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The record was produced by Chris "Zeuss" Harris, which surprises nobody who has followed the band. "His connection with Matt, Wayne, Frank, Carl and me goes far beyond the producer's chair," Jasta said. "He's been like a sixth member of this band for years."
On the label move, Jasta was blunt about the appeal: "BLKIIBLK put together a dream team to get behind the new HATEBREED record and we couldn't be happier — new label, new horizons, crushing new songs." Frontiers A&R man Mike Gitter framed the signing in the terms the band has earned over three decades: "HATEBREED aren't merely about perseverance — they're about bringing the sound of the extreme to a new level."
Drummer Matt Byrne put the year in his own words: "This juggernaut as we know it is picking up the pace rapidly and is taking no prisoners."
The eleven-track album carries one guest, and it is a good one — OBITUARY's John Tardy appears on "Sacrifice Season".
"Fatal Paradox" track listing:
- Kill Count Increase
- The Carrion Choir
- Decisions Become Destinies
- Total Invincible
- Fatal Paradox
- Still A Threat
- Sacrifice Season (feat. John Tardy of OBITUARY)
- Truth Is A Lion
- Make The Demons Obey
- None Left To Save
- Poison Planet
The album is preceded by "Kill Count Increase" and "Make The Demons Obey", both already out.
HATEBREED remain one of the more stable units in heavy music: Jamey Jasta on vocals, Wayne Lozinak and Frank Novinec on guitars, Matt Byrne on drums, Carl Schwartz on bass.
The band are currently in the middle of the second leg of the Summer Slaughter Tour 2026, which opened August 20 in Albuquerque, New Mexico with TERROR, INCANTATION, GATES TO HELL, TORTURE and CREEPING DEATH in support. The first leg ran July 2 to 24, from Reading, Pennsylvania to Buffalo, New York.
Thirty-two years on from "Under The Knife", the formula has not moved much — and the band have never pretended otherwise. What "Fatal Paradox" promises is the same thing HATEBREED have always sold: brevity, weight and no wasted seconds.