ACT OF DEFIANCE – the heavy metal group featuring the veteran talents of Chris Broderick on guitar, Henry Derek on vocals, Shawn Drover on drums and Matt Bachand on bass – will make their European debut this summer.Besides a few selected headliner shows and festival appearances, ACT OF DEFIANCE will also play support gigs for ARMORED SAINT on the mainland.
Comments Shawn Drover: “Act of Defiance are beyond thrilled to FINALLY get to Europe in support of our new record ‘OLD SCARS, NEW WOUNDS’ We look forward to seeing you all at the shows!”Adds Chris Borderick:
ACT OF DEFIANCE
27/07/18 UK – London- Underworld
29/07/18 UK – Glasgow – Cathouse
30/07/18 UK – Newcastle – Think Tank
01/08/18 UK – Chester – Live Rooms
02/08/18 UK – Milton Keynes – The Craufurd Arms
04/08/18 DE – Wacken – Wacken Open Air
06/08/18 DE – Aschaffenburg – Colos-Saal w/ARMORED SAINT
07/08/18 DE – München – Backstage Halle w/ARMORED SAINT
08/08/17 CZ – Josefov – Brutal Assault Festival
10/08/18 NL – Eindhoven – Dynamo w/ARMORED SAINT
12/08/18 UK – Derbyshire – Bloodstock Festival
ACT OF DEFIANCE released their latest album, ‘Old Scars, New Wounds‘, on September 29th of 2017 via Metal Blade Records. You can still listen to the album and pre-order it at: metalblade.com/actofdefiance
ACT OF DEFIANCE line-up:
Chris Broderick – guitar
Henry Derek – vocals
Shawn Drover – drums
Matt Bachand – bass
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]]>There are not many new elements or musical differences compared to the debut. A small change is that vocalist Henry Derek has even more vocal variety then on the debut. He switches from clean to aggressive thrash vocals, to grunting death metal parts with ease. ‘Molten Core’ for instance sounds more like a Swedish death metal track with riffs from At The Gates and ditto the singing style. The next song is like the opening track, again a lot more thrash oriented, with harsh singing and clean vocal parts. Here you still hear the Megadeth influences, but that is no problem at all for me. ‘The Talisman’ is a song with a lot of variety, as it starts acoustic, followed by a slow riffing part, speeding up halfway, then slowing down again and ending like it started, acoustic. Another Megadeth influence, ‘Broken Dialect’, are still rather usual, but if done right who cares?
What I like most about this album is the variety of the songs and the use of thrash in combination with the 90’s In Flames and At The Gates Swedish death metal style. Especially the use of different singing styles is a great surplus. On top of that, every song has great solos from the hand of Broderick. There is not a weak song on the album, as it is very steady. The only thing you could mention is that there hasn’t been a lot of changes compared to the debut, but for me that is a strong point instead of weak.
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