Expect the announcement of Affliction 2 to take place soon. In the meantime, we’re hearing a couple of rumors about the musical entertainment at the next event and we’ll run through them over the next few days. One name that we’ve heard mentioned quite a bit might not be as iconic as Megadeth but they’re pretty solid in their own right: Connecticut based thrash metal band Hatebreed. Hatebreed is already a favorite for fighter ring entrance music and no less than Andrei Arlovski has frequently used a song by lead singer Jamie Jasta’s side project Icepick (”Onward to Victory”). Here’s the band playing “This Is Now” live at the 2006 Download Festival in the UK: