#104 HATEBREED

Jamey Jasta (0:01)

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Nik Nocturnal (0:30)

Hatebreed is over 30 years old now?

Jamey Jasta (0:31)

Yeah, it's crazy.

Nik Nocturnal (0:33)

Congratulations, first of all.

It's wild. There's not many bands that could say they made it to the 30-year mark.

Jamey Jasta (0:41)

Yeah, and it's crazy because I'm up on stage the other night, and I'm going, holding it down on the drums since 1999, and I'm pointing to Matt, and the crowd's going crazy, and I say, who was alive in 99? And there's only a handful of people, and then I'm like, who was not alive? And you gotta think, wow, 99, yeah, you're 30, what is it, 31 at this point?

Nik Nocturnal (1:04)

I'm 30, and I was 96, so you're in late 20s.

Jamey Jasta (1:07)

99 is 27, you'd be 27 And even then, there's people, so now I have to change it, where I'm like, this song from this record came out in 2002 Who was not alive in 2002? And half the audience is putting up their hands, and I'm like, wow, it's a trip. And Frank was talking about this the other night, because he joined the band in 6

And he's been in the band for over 20 years. And you go, there are people that weren't even alive when he joined the band at the show.

It's wild. So I always say, like, you're the future. Start a band with all your friends, and we'll see you at Summer Slaughter 2029, or whatever.

2030, because we have had a... I've seen and heard a lot of that, where, because that was one of my stage banter things for a while, where people are like, dude, I met a kid at Sonic Temple. Shoot, the name of the band is going to escape me, but a super nice kid. He's like, dude, you said that, and then we started a band, and we're actually here. We're not playing. Oh, that's so sick. And he's like, but we're here, we're on tour. And I said, and we ended up putting them on Milwaukee Idol Fest.

And that's happened a lot, where then I'll meet kids later on. They'll be like, you pulled me on stage at Mayhem Fest, and now I'm in a band, and we're playing this show, or we're playing with this band. So it's really cool to see that it's never gonna, it feels like it's never gonna die at this point. There was a time when, I think, late 90s, two years after the first record came out, where I thought, I don't know, it's a changing of the guard. But then Killswitch blew up. And we were like, I remember when they opened for us, I think, in 99, and I thought, oh yeah, this reaches a whole new demographic of people. And Mike D was out there doing interviews. And he was saying, yeah, we grew up listening to some of the Swedish melodeth, and we also liked some of the hardcore and the metalcore.

And he said something to the effect of like, kind of a little bit of In Flames, a little bit of like Hatebreed style breakdowns. And then so many people discovered us just from that one interview. And then I remember people going, oh my God, In Flames, In Flames. And then it was like, In Flames had a huge resurgence. At the Gates had a huge resurgence. So it's cool to see that there's that power in, you know, these newer gateway bands, but it happens now like every, I wanna say every three or four years.

Nik Nocturnal (3:34)

It's the power of that influence, man. The last one I remembered was like, 2010s had like GEMT existed, but it always existed. It was Meshuggah, right? And it was cool seeing people get into like periphery and all like the Sumerian core bands. And then being, and then all those bands were just like, bro, we just love Meshuggah. And then everyone was like, what's Meshuggah? And then we went back and all of a sudden it's like, whoa, like a whole discovery and kind of like connection to the past and like completing that lineage, which is great that bands do that of course, because then it kind of unlocks more of that puzzle for the, again, newer people getting into that.