In a recent interview, Hatebreed vocalist Jamey Jasta announced that the band is working on a covers album to be titled For the Lions. Included amongst the bands to be covered are Metallica, Cro-Mags, Judge, D.R.I., Negative Approach, Agnostic Front, Madball, Sheer Terror, Obituary, and The Misfits - covering their namesake "Hate Breeders." The album is due out via Koch Records, though no release date has been set. Here is an excerpt from Jasta:
The record’s called “For the Lions.” All the artwork is based around all these different stone lions, and it’s basically because each band is like a lion in their own game, like a leader. So we tried to think of each genre and subgenre, and grab a band that really affected us. It’s coming with like a 20-page liner booklet with stuff from each guy about when we got the record, when we heard the band, how it affected us.... It came out great. It’s new vocal territory for me. I worked with an engineer who is very, like, hard on me to get everything right. I didn’t use any vocal effects or anything. It’s like, real singing on Metallica and Misfits. People are going to be like, Is that even Hatebreed? They’re not even going to know. It’s tuned down, it has our touch. We Hatebreed-ized every track. Like, the Misfits track is crazy, I play it for a couple people and they were loving it.
