MetalPunk & Hardcore
BLKIIBLK Records · 6 November 2026
Hatebreed’s new album, “Fatal Paradox”, came out on 6 November on BLKIIBLK Records, part of the Frontiers group. It has eleven tracks and lasts about 35 minutes. It opens with “Kill Count Increase”, the song the band announced the album with on 21 July, and closes with “Poison Planet”, a Corrosion Of Conformity cover. In between come the title track, “The Carrion Choir” and “Make The Demons Obey”, which the band had put out as a single in July 2025.
According to the band’s website, it’s Hatebreed’s ninth full-length album and their first since “Weight Of The False Self”, released on 27 November 2020 on Nuclear Blast. It’s also their first for BLKIIBLK. It’s produced by Chris “Zeuss” Harris, described on the website as a longtime collaborator, and the vinyl credits add the band themselves as co-producers. It’s out on CD and on vinyl, in several coloured editions.
The line-up listed in the credits is Jamey Jasta on lead vocals, Wayne Lozinak on lead guitar, Frank “3 Gun” Novinec on rhythm guitar, Carl Schwartz on bass and Matt Byrne on drums, with Lozinak, Novinec and Schwartz also on backing vocals. The only guest is Obituary singer John Tardy, who appears on “Sacrifice Season”.
Text by Roger Estivill