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''The Rise of Brutality'' is the third album by American metalcore / hardcore punk band Hatebreed. It was released on October 28, 2003 by Universal Records.

"This is Now" proved to be the album's first single, frequently being played on MTV2's ''Headbangers Ball'', a program which vocalist Jamey Jasta often hosted. The song was also included on the first ''MTV2 Headbangers Ball'' compilation album that same year. A second single would be found in "Live for This," with its music video dedicated to a deceased friend of the band. The song "Another Day, Another Vendetta," greatly samples the song "Just Look Around," by Sick of it All, borrowing the first verse.

The first song, "Tear It Down" is an extended version of the song "Outro" from the previous album Perseverance. Their song ''Live For This'' was nominated for a Grammy award in 2005. - Wikipedia

Now this is progress. It took Hatebreed 1546 days to follow up their 1997 debut LP, Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire, with last year's Perseverance. In light of an arduous touring schedule and frontman Jamey Jasta's new steady gig as host of MTV2's freshly resurrected Headbanger's Ball, fans should view the release of the band's new record The Rise of Brutality as a minor miracle. However-and perhaps expectedly-The Rise of Brutality isn't an exercise in musical progression. Jasta does enunciate a little more clearly this time, and the production of Zeuss (Shadows Fall, Sworn Enemy) is certainly nastier, but ultimately there are few deviations from the bone-breaking formula it took Hatebreed nearly five years to perfect.

Much of the band's inspiration remains culled from the death metal underground of the early '90s-guitarist Sean Martin, in particular, pilfers early Entombed and Bolt Thrower riffs in tracks such as "Doomsayer" and "This Is Now" as if they were blues standards. But the group-shouted anthemic choruses of "Straight to Your Face" and "Live for This" prove that the influences of Agnostic Front and Sick of It All are just as significant. In fact, "Another Day, Another Vendetta" actually reprises the verse lyrics from Sick of It All's down-on-your-luck dirge "Just Look Around" but curiously omits the song's defining chorus. Sometimes that drubbing without the melodic massage is all too typical of Hatebreed's approach to metallic hardcore. But when a band titles their album The Rise of Brutality, you really should have seen the ass-kicking coming.