HATEBREED TO HEADLINE U.S. NATIONAL SUMMER TOUR “DECIMATION OF THE NATION”

HATEBREED CO-HOSTING MTV2’S HEADBANGER’S BALL “GOLDEN GODS” PREVIEW SHOW TONIGHT (4/29 –11:00PM) WITH JOSE MANGIN (SIRIUS LIQUID METAL) DEDICATED TO HATEBREED

5TH DIGITAL SINGLE FROM NEW ALBUM “ESCAPE” (FROM METALLICA) NOW AVAILABLE ON ITUNES

NEW ALBUM, FOR THE LIONS, IN STORES ON MAY 5TH, 2009

(New York, NY) —On the heels of the highly anticipated covers album, FOR THE LIONS (in stores May 5th on E1 Music), hardcore-metal leaders HATEBREED announce a new headline U.S. summer tour entitled Decimation of the Nation, presented by Hot Topic.

The band’s brutal live show, documented in last year’s #1 Billboard charting DVD, LIVE DOMINANCE, is set to hit 30 cities, beginning in Rochester, NY on July 31, 2009, wrapping up on September 2, 2009.

Main support on all the dates will come from Chimaira. When asked about the tour frontman Jamey Jasta had this to say, “”It’s been over a year since we’ve done a complete United States tour and we haven’t played some of these places in ages so we’re really amped to hit the road in support of For The Lions and play for all of our die-hards!”

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Tour dates as follows:

7/31 Rochester, NY Water Street
8/2 Traverse City, MI The Terminal
8/6 Ft. Wayne, IN Piere’s
8/8 Springfield, MO Remmington’s
8/10 Ft. Collins, CO Aggie Theater
8/11 Grand Junction, CO Mesa Theater & Club
8/13 Boise, ID Knitting Factory
8/14 Sparks, NV New Oasis
8/15 Chico, CA Senator Theater
8/16 Santa Cruz, CA The Catalyst
8/17 Ventura, CA Majestic Ventura Theater
8/18 Pomona, CA Glasshouse
8/19 Tucson, AZ Rialto Theater
8/21 Oklahoma City, OK Diamond Ballroom
8/22 Austin, TX Emo’s
8/23 Corpus Christ, TX Concrete St. Amphitheater
8/24 Lafayette, LA Grant Street Dancehall
8/25 Little Rock, AR The Village
8/26 Jackson, MS Fire
8/27 Knoxville, TN Valarium
8/28 N. Myrtle, SC House of Blues SC
8/29 Norfolk, VA The Norva
8/30 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
9/1 Millvale, PA Mr. Small’s Theater
9/2 Scranton, PA Tink’s

In additional news, HATEBREED will co-host MTV2’s HEADBANGER’S BALL with Jose from Sirius Radio tonight (4/29) at 11:00pm. The entire show is dedicated to the band.

To date, HATEBREED has released five digital singles in the weeks leading up to the new album release, “Ghosts of War,” (Slayer) “Thirsty & Miserable” (Black Flag) “Suicidal Manic” (Suicidal Tendencies), “Shut Me Out” (Sick of It All) and “Escape” (Metallica).
For more on “Escape”, please click here: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=311181233&s=143441

As previously announced, each individual digital track purchased counts toward iTunes’ “complete my album” initiative. The more you buy, the less you pay for the full album on 5/5/09.

HATEBREED’s new video for Slayer’s “Ghosts Of War” premiered earlier this week on MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball is now available.

HATEBREED offers more info on FOR THE LIONS here below:

We have added the 4XL Shirt Size Option to the “Diehard Deal” currently available at www.stillbornstore.com. Unfortunately we ran out of Posters already but the shirts, stickers, guitar picks and the new album, For The Lions, are still available.

Click the banner below to download the newest release “Escape” from iTunes.

Beginning today, hardcore-metal leaders HATEBREED will roll-out 5 consecutive digital singles on iTunes from their forthcoming new covers album, FOR THE LIONS leading up to the album’s May 5th release date. The first single, the band’s bludgeoning take on “Thirsty & Miserable” (from Black Flag) is now available for purchase. Click here for more information. Each digital track purchased will count toward iTunes’ “complete my album” initiative. The more you buy, the less you pay for the full album on 5/5/09. The other forthcoming digital singles from FOR THE LIONS will be available on iTunes as follows: 4/7 - “Suicidal Maniac” (Suicidal Tendencies) 4/14 - “Shut Me Out” (Sick Of It All) 4/21 - “Ghosts of War” (Slayer) 4/28 - “Escape” (Metallica) The band weighs in on the FOR THE LIONS “complete my album” plan:

HATEBREED also recently completed a video for Slayer’s South of Heaven classic, “Ghosts of War.” Directed by LIVE DOMINANCE director, Kevin Custer, the video is the first to feature return of guitar player Wayne Lozinak. For a taste of the new video, take a peek at this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPMPcDpBXxc FOR THE LIONS, to be released on E1 Music (formerly KOCH Records), is the follow-up to the band’s #1 Billboard charting DVD, LIVE DOMINANCE (released September of 2008) which left fans “Picking their teeth up off the floor” and “sounding immense” according to Outburn. Additionally, Hatebreed will perform at the first annual EPIPHONE Revolver Golden Gods Awards, alongside acts Megadeth, Killswitch Engage, All That Remains and Suicide Silence. The Awards show will take place on Tuesday, April 7 at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles and be broadcast on MTV2 as a one-hour special debuting Saturday, May 2. Jasta will also present the highly anticipated Monster Energy Riff of the Year Award at the event, an honor to be given to the most crushing riff in metal!