DEFEATER TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM

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Boston hardcore act Defeater will release their fourth studio album, Abandoned, on August 28 on Epitaph. The band has released a video for a new song, “Spared in Hell“.

Unlike most bands—and especially most hardcore bands— Defeater don’t write songs so much as they write histories, and specifically the history of a never-named New Jersey family whose already troubled lives disintegrate into torment, rendered all the more tragic for the depth and detail of singer Derek Archambault’s lyrics. Abandoned is the most relentlessly raw and uncompromising chapter so far, powered by a renewed sense of artistic ambition and a plot twist no one expected.

Abandoned was written and recorded in a welcome period of relief in Archambault’s life, after he’d finally received a life-changing surgery that repaired severe hip damage he suffered in an injury. Archambault’s surgery, he says, allowed him to redouble his connection with his own writing, leaving him clear to truly inhabit what he calls his own Glass family—after the famous J.D. Salinger characters. The new album chronicles the story of a lapsed Catholic priest, whose battles in Europe during the war drag him first toward faith and then his own poisonous faithlessness.

Archambault states:

“One of the threads running through this record is how people sometimes look for the answers to their problems in the darkest places.”

The new album was recorded earlier this year at guitarist Jay Maas’ studio, with drummer Joe Longobardi, bassist Mike Poulin and guitarist Jake Woodruff. For the newly introduced to Defeater, their debut Travels started the story with the younger brother, a lifelong misfit forced to kill his father in defense of his mother, and forced to live with the consequences no matter how far he runs. Sophomore album Empty Days followed the older brother, dazed from the death of his father and fighting as his life dissolves into drinking and debt. And most recent album Letters Home was a surprisingly compassionate look at the father and his experiences overseas in World War II, presented in a reverse-chronological order that transformed the monster from Travels back into the man he once was.

Pre-orders for Abandoned are available on CD and vinyl at ‪http://flyt.it/DefeaterAbandonedstore and on iTunes. Defeater will tour this fall in support of the new album.

ABANDONED TRACK LIST

1. Contrition
2. Unanswered
3. December 1943
4. Spared In Hell
5. Divination
6. Borrowed & Blue
7. Penance
8. Remorse
9. Pillar Of Salt
10. Atonement
11. Vice & Regret

DEFEATER US TOUR DATES

09-01            Grog Shop – Cleveland Heights, OH
09-02            Shelter – Detroit, MI
09-03            The Bottom Lounge – Chicago, IL
09-04            Triple Rock Social Club – Minneapolis, MN
09-05            The Firebird -St. Louis, MO
09-06            The Waiting Room – Omaha, NE
09-08            Marquis Theater – Denver, CO
09-09            The Complex – Salt Lake City, UT
09-11            The Crocodile – Seattle, WA
09-12            Hawthorne Theater- Portland, OR
09-14            The Boardwalk – Orangevale, CA
09-15            Epicentre – San Diego, CA
09-16            Chain Reaction – Anaheim, CA
09-17            Chain Reaction – Anaheim, CA
09-18            Club Red – Tempe, AZ
09-19            The Works – Albuquerque, NM
09-21            Gas Monkey – Dallas, TX
09-22            Red 7 – Austin, TX
09-23            Warehouse Live – Houston, TX
09-25            The Social – Orlando, FL
09-26            O’Malley’s – Margate, FL
09-27            Local 662 – St. Petersburg, FL
09-28            The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
09-29            Exit/In – Nashville, TN
09-30            Headliners – Louisville, KY
10-01            The Altar Bar – Pittsburgh, PA
10-02            Rock & Roll Hotel – Washington, DC
10-03            Shakas Live – Virginia Beach, VA
10-04            Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA
10-06            Gramercy Theater – New York, NY
10-07            The Chance Theatre – Poughkeepsie, NY
10-10            The Waiting Room – Buffalo, NY
10-11            The Middle East – Cambridge, MA