Metal Anarchy

During an interview with Into The Necrosphere, Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta offered an update on the band’s plans for new music. According to him, the group will “probably have a single any day now.”

Jasta said the following:

“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.

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.

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.”

[via Blabbermouth]