Released The Divinity of Purpose

Their sixth studio album, The Divinity of Purpose , was eventually released on January 25, 2013, in Europe and on January 29 in North America. The cover art was done by Eliran Kantor ( Testament , Sodom ). The album became their highest charting on the Billboard 200 selling 17,400 units and peaking at number 20, it also charted at number 1 on the US Hard Rock Chart. Along with the chart success the album was met with generally positive reviews, AllMusic ‘s James Christopher Monger, the reviewer characterized the record as “Meatier and more hardcore-centric than their last offering.” The first official tour in support of the album took place in the US and went from late January to the middle of February 2013. Supporting acts consisted of Shadows Fall Dying Fetus and The Contortionist . In April they toured the US alongside Every Time I Die and Terror , During the Fall they went on tour with Shadows Fall, and Acacia Strain, they closed out the touring cycle with a November tour with Lamb of God and In Flames . Hatebreed also got to play on the 2013 Vans Warped Tour in Australia alongside bands like Parkway Drive , The Offspring , Simple Plan , The Used , We Came as Romans , Man Overboard, H2O and many more, as well as the United Kingdom Warped Tour alongside Coheed and Cambria , Rise Against , Enter Shikari , Flogging Molly , Like Moths to Flames , The Wonder Years, Sublime with Rome and much more. In 2014 they embarked on a Latin America tour alongside Napalm Death . They went on a co-headlining North America tour with the Butcher Babies that went into 2015. In the Spring of that year they supported Slipknot on their North American tour.