JUNE 11th, 2024
JASTA: ...AND JASTA FOR ALL
Review by: Yolanda Cota

Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta is back with his fourth album, "...And Jasta for All". When I first saw the cover for this, I thought, “oh man. Is he doing Metallica covers now?”. Welp, this definitely is not the case. The intro to the first song “They See Us As Prey” sounds a bit like the intro to “Blackened”, but it goes a bit harder than that when the song actually hits. The guitars are very reminiscent of Kirk Hammett because the melodies are similar, but at the same time it’s unique. “Armor Your Mind” starts off with the fast stuff right off the bat. The first guitar riff makes me think of the late great Dimebag Darrell with that screaming bar. The breakdown is just headbanging madness and that continues throughout the rest of the song until the end. “Create the Now” and “R.M.P.C” were without any defining intro and went straight into the songs. They had a few melodic singing and some good guitar riffs, but they didn’t hit as well as the first two songs. “Suicidality” reminded me a bit of Suicidal Tendencies. Not with the title, but with the tempo. Yelling out “suicide army” with a slower tempo ended the song strongly. My favorite song off this album is “Assimilation Agenda”. I’m more prone to like the faster stuff so this was right up my alley. Steve “Zetro” Souza featuring in this song was awesome, but I honestly wish he sang the whole song. I loved the melody of the guitar solo, the fast-hard-hitting beat, and the slow descent into the ending of the song. I breezed through “King of Truth” only because it was more of the same from the third and fourth songs. “Terminal Lucidity” started off with those damn cymbals that give me chills. It’s a face-paced song for the most part, but the chorus has a guitar riff that reminds me a bit of Cradle Of Filth. It ends on a slow, but powerful headbanging thump. “No Dream Is Free” was another favorite of mine. It starts off with a nice drum medley, but then BAM! right into chaos. I don’t know what else to call this song, but just pure insanity. That guitar though! I absolutely loved it. “The Phoenix Song” started out so ominously and then gets right into the nitty gritty. It goes into a bit of singing for the pre-chorus, speeds up, slows down, more singing, and then ends in a hard crushing stop. Thanks for that Jamey Jasta. Some of the songs were a bit redundant for my liking, but at the end of it, a solid release.