God Forbid’s Earthsblood didn’t do so well, only selling about 5600 copies but still enough to land them on the Billboard 200 at # 110. I think once they get on tour with Lamb Of God and on the Rockstar Mayhem Festival people will hear this album and want it. Either that or people are just downloading the hell out of this album. Unfortunately God Forbid is subject to people hating them in forums and discrediting them, even using racist words against them. But you have to ignore all that and check out this album! Most metal fans that bought a cd last week probably opted for the Lamb Of God, which I can understand, but I will stand by my opinion that THIS album is better than Wrath. Forget all the metalcore labels and everything that surrounds this band and LISTEN-TO-THE-ALBUM! It’s heavy, it’s thrashy and it’s catchy. I don’t know how many times I have to say it, Earthsblood kills!

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This post was published on March 4th, 2009 at 10:01 am

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Hatebreed

Jamie Jasta had this to say: “HATEBREED fans are #1. They have helped us do something very cool and we are extremely grateful for this. Our supporters are as diehard as they come.”

Bass player Chris Beattie, stated: “Having the #1 DVD in the country is a great sense of accomplishment knowing how hard we have worked this year. This shows that metal and hardcore are still alive and well. Thanks to all our fans for your support.”

Let me say something about Chris Beattie real quick and I mean no disrespect by this. I honestly don’t think I saw Chris play the bottom two strings of his guitar on Sunday night. I’m not calling him out or saying that he’s not a good bass player. The music style of Hatebreed just doesn’t require it I guess. But I wasn’t like watching him every second of the night, so maybe he does use the two bottoms, I don’t know. I’m just saying. It was a bad ass show and the energy was through the roof. I have not yet bought the DVD yet. They had it at the show for $20 and it came with a bunch of other stuff and a chance to get it signed by the band but I wanted a T-shirt and had to save some cash for Carcass tomorrow night.

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