Listening to their musical brutality you’d think Hatebreed would sooner smash your face in than have a pleasant conversation with you. Not so. When Synthesis met up with singer Jamey Jasta, he was cuddly as a kitten. Okay, that may be an overstatement, but our camera operator/designer sure had to restrain herself from petting him. Check out the footage (below) RIGHT AFTER peeping Synthesis interview (right here).

For those who missed their summer tour, do not fret yerself. Their live DVD, Live Dominance, will be floor-punching streets in September:

HARDCORE METAL PIONEERS HATEBREED SET TO RELEASE LIVE DOMINANCE — THE GROUP’S FIRST-EVER LIVE DVD
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2008 ON KOCH RECORDS

Hardcore Metal heavyweights HATEBREED have announced a September 2, 2008 release date for their first-ever DVD, Live Dominance. The DVD will include the band’s entire 80 minute show shot in front of a crazed, sold-out crowd at Harpo’s in Detroit on the Supermacy tour, plus additional live concert footage shot all over the globe in such cities as Philadelphia, New-Haven, New York and more.

Live Dominance will include over 2 hours of live footage. In addition, the DVD is set to include a ton of bonus features shot specifically for the release including brand-new band interviews, concept videos, fan testimonials, and much much more.

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This is Lauren Bernat of Miami, FL. She likes to Wii Hula Hoop in her underwear, while her dorky bf / roommate films her. And that ass is stacking FAME!!! 2 million views in 2 weeks? Damn!

To watch something with a little more substance, check out and subscribe to our YouTube channel. Just yesterday, we filmed some silly shit where I get squirted by Ranch dressing. On the real though, we have some good video interviews…

Hatebreed, Thrice, Fall of Troy, Getting a Tattoo with Ed Harcourt, Paramore, Paramore, and more Paramore, Eisley, The Used live, As I Lay Dying, The Color Fred, MxPx live, Armor For Sleep, The Cool Kids live at SXSW, The English Beat live, Chiodos live, Tilly & The Wall, Me Drunk as Eff, Pierce The Veil live, The Audition

Unplanned by us, this week has turned out to be Hatebreed week here at Synthesis: with the band on the cover of this week’s Synthesis weekly, an interview with the band on the frontpage of the website, Spencer’s blog yesterday about Waiting for Jasta (like Waiting for Guffman only more pissed) and today’s YouTube video of Synthesis metal guru Cayle Hunter chopping it up with Mr. Jasta himself, we couldn’t jock Hatebreed more if we TRIED.

When Hatebreed’s management called us to push the interview time forward, and then pretty much fucked it off without a phone call back, Dallas and I were left with only one option:

I can’t remember the last time I built a fort, but it probably was not nearly as epic as this particular fort. The best part about it, though, was the fact that we built it right in the office’s entry-way, and every person who came in had to climb over the cushion-less couch.

Our CEO Bill Fishkin:

Armed For Apocalypse drummer Nick Harris:

Synthesis Editor and Candy Apple frontman Jacob Sprecher:

The list goes on. Me, I would have just knocked the stupid thing over. Luckily, the rest of the office fears my wrath, and nothing would stir my wrath more than knockin over my fucking badass fort. See the front? It has gun turrets! Halliburton could learn a thing or two here.

UPDATE: Hatebreed just fucked off the second interview time (rescheduled for 8:00, fingers crossed). In the meantime, blueprints to rebuild the fort are quickly being drawn up. Emerald City look out.

UPDATE #2: Jamey from Hatebreed is way nice. My new fort is even nicer.

If I only got three words to describe Kingdom of Sorrow, the project from Crowbar/Down riffmaster Kirk Windstein and Hatebreed vocalist/MTV VJ Jamey Jasta it would be : HARD AS F. And you know what, I think I will just use those three words. Because I don’t really know what else to say. If you even sort of like Down, Hatebreed, Crowbar, etc al, Kingdom of Sorrow will, to quote Synthesis sales guru Cayle Hunter, “make you jerk off using your own tears as lube.”

Their self-titled debut record drops February 19th on Relapse, and the band will be heading out on tour, rounding out their line-up with Steve Gibb from Crowbar on guitar ( who is, strangely enough, Barry Gibb from the BeeGee’s son…no shit) Derek Kerswill from Unearth on drums and some random dude from New Orleans on bass. If they play within 100 miles of your city and you dont go you are officially kicked out of metal. For life.