Connecticut's HATEBREED have begun pre-production on their next studio album. Check out a shot of bassist Chris Beattie in the studio below:

Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta is featured in a recent interview with Brendan Crabb at Australia's Loud Magazine. An excerpt follows:

Q: Where do you envision the next album going – heavier? Faster? More melodic?

A: Well, there probably won’t be any melody whatsoever (laughs). It’ll be fast, heavy, I would say very reminiscent of the last record’s faster, heavier songs like 'Merciless Tide' and 'Hands Of A Dying Man'.

Q: Do you have any idea of a tentative release date for that perhaps?

A: "I don’t know, we were talking about that the other day and we were thinking about whether we should put something out in October, or should we try to maybe just wait until next January and tour more on the Perseverance ten-year anniversary tour. Because originally we thought about doing some dates and just doing the whole Perseverance album. But then we scrapped that idea and decided we were going to tour all of Europe and all of the festivals in the summer, and then promoters asked us to come to other places and we’re going to do some more touring. So I don’t know, I’m not sure yet."

Q: In what direction do you see the industry headed in the future? Will CDs become obsolete sooner rather than later?

A: "(Pauses) I’m not sure just yet. I still want to own CDs, I like the packaging, I have like my library of CDs in my CD cases. But I do like when something isn’t released physically, if it’s just on vinyl I do like to get the digital copy and I have my iTunes pretty organised. I can’t speak for the younger generation; all I can speak for is myself and I like to own vinyl and CDs and I like have them stick around for a while. But we’ll see what happens. I mean, vinyl’s made a little bit of a comeback, but I don’t know what’s going to happen."

Click here for the complete interview.

As previously reported, Hatebreed will support LAMB OF GOD in South America this spring, with LACUNA COIL on the bill from March 31st - April 4th. The schedule is as follows:

March

31 - Sao Paulo, Brazil - Espaco Lux

April

1 - Curitiba, Brazil - Curitiba Master Hall
2 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Microestadio Malvinas Argentinas

4- Santiago, Chile - Teatro Caupolican

6 - Quito, Ecuador - Teatro Bolivar
7 - Bogota, Colombia - Teatro Metropol
8 - Caracas, Venezuela - CIEC Caracas
10 - Mexico City, Mexico - Jose Cuervo Salon