SHADOWS FALL’s MATT BACHAND To Play Bass For HATEBREED “For The Foreseeable Future”

Shadows Fall guitarist Matt Bachand will be playing bass for Hatebreed “the foreseeable future.” Hatebreed only briefly mentioned their change on their Instagram and had the comments turned off. It’s also not clear what’s going on with founding Hatebreed bassist Chris Beattie, or why he’s not playing with the band at the moment.

Outside the bassist situation, Hatebreed has been working on their first album since Weight Of The False Self in 2020. According to Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta in an interview with Bloodstock TV’s Oran O’Beirne: “We’re actually free agents right now. So we’re talking to everybody, seeing what the options are. And I’ve been doing my own label… So people said, ‘Stop producing all these records and do your own damn record.’ It’s time, yeah.”

When asked if Hatebreed actually has any new material ready to go, Jasta said there’s some stuff in the works. He’s also got an idea of who he wants to produce it, but of course nothing is set in stone just yet.

“I have songs, and I have lyrics, and I thought about who would produce this record. Obviously, we always love Zeuss and go with Zeuss, but we’re open. You know, we’re saying we’re, like, we’re open to everything, but we’re attached to nothing.

“So if Rick Rubin came out of the woodwork and said, ‘Hey, you wanna do something?’ people would say, ‘Well, that’s a pretty lofty goal.’ But it’s been done before — a little band from nowhere ends up getting a second wind in their career. And we’ve seen it with so many great bands that — not that we even had too much of a valley on the last one, but it did come out during a worldwide pandemic.

“So it’s always peaks and valleys. And right now we’re just headed towards the next peak.”