Metal, Hardcore, Indie, Rock
Guitarist Frank Novinec of Connecticut hardcore/metal stalwarts Hatebreed was asked if he and his bandmates were working on a new album in a recent interview with Hardlore, as per Blabbermouth.
[It’s] coming out this year, yeah. Most, of it’s pretty much — I mean, it’s done.
Frank went on to mention that last July, Hatebreed released “Make The Demons Obey,” their first new single in almost five years.
The nice thing about in this era — I was telling somebody the other day that’s not in the music business like we are — the nice thing about the way things are rolled out now, I think, is you can drop a single even if you have the whole record done, and be, like, ‘All right, now there’s all this time’, where you can really review what you’ve done and you could really change something that you didn’t like or even make another song and all that. It’s not, like, ‘Okay, there’s the record, there’s the two videos. Here’s what are supposed to be the singles. And that’s it.’ So it’s nice to be able to drop the single, which we had a great response for. We love the song. As far as the band’s concerned, we’re real happy with ‘Make The Demons Obey’. And we’ll probably leak another one here soon. And there’ll probably be proper videos coming after that.
Novinec, who became a full-time member of Hatebreed in 2006, was also questioned about if he had written any significant songs for the band’s albums since joining the group two decades ago.
No. I think I have one riff on one song. It was always Chris [Beattie] and Jamey [Jasta] writing the music. That’s it. From day one, it’s Chris and Jamey. They’re the guys [who wrote all the music] from day one, for the most part.
Frank mentioned how Beattie’s sudden departure has altered Hatebreed’s songwriting chemistry.
Wayne [Lozinak], I think, is… We all have our ideas about songs. Songs are presented, [and then we say], ‘Hey, I think we should change this,’ ‘Hey, I think this riff should go longer.’ I’m not a groove dude like that when it comes to writing, I’m not somebody that’s trying to show up and break something that’s not broken.
