HATEBAZ

Those rumors that have been floating around are apparently true: Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta is working with Sebastian Bach on the latter’s new album. Blabbermouth reports that Jasta has said the following about the collaboration:

All the Skid Row/Bach fans need not worry; I am not trying to infuse a Hatebreed/Kingdom of Sorrow sound or style. I’m just hoping to write and produce a bunch of GREAT anthemic metal/rock songs for him. Think Painkiller-era Priest meets Vulgar Display of Power meets Slave To The Grind.

I think that Jasta has the right idea about what kind of album Baz should make – lest we forget, Skid Row and Pantera were tour mates once upon a time, and certainly the Priest/Skid direction doesn’t seem far-fetched – but I am not confident that Jasta is the man to make this happen (and I say that as someone who actually likes Hatebreed). As our pal Anso at Hipsters Out of Metal! notes, “if Jasta were able to pen material on par with Paaain!Killah!, Vulgar, [and] Slave (greatest hard rock album of all time?), I gotta ask: Why has he been holding this material back for a Sebastian Bach solo album that no one will hear?”

-AR