Definitely better than Letters Home.

I agree but damn this sounds so uninspired next to Travels, Lost Ground and even Empty Days.

wait wait since when was this a thing

welcome to 2 months ago man

so over this band zzzzz

not hyped.....but curious

band definitely petered out after the lost ground ep, but this is better than letters home by a long shot. I miss the Travels days when they played basements with La dispute before they both started sucking

Better than Letters Home but still not great. Really disappointed by their nosedive in quality. There is just no energy on this. Hard to believe the same band put out Travels, Lost ground and Empty Days.

Definitely an improvement on their last album.
Have to give it a couple listens before I decide how much I like it.

band needs to just hang up the concept and make a good album again

I had no idea they were even making a new album. I'm expecting a 2.5-3 based on the fact that some of you are saying it's better than Letters Home so... yay...?

Empty Days was the last album I enjoyed by them.

Just kidding, I'm now remembering Spared in Hell when it first dropped

This was booring and what's going on with the vocals..?

RIP Defeater 2008 - 2011

is that the quality of the stream or is the production just odd

Never czeched these guys out even tho I have Lost Ground sitting in my library. They like Modern Life Is War but just not as good?

not as good but their earlier stuff is a close call

"Never czeched these guys out even tho I have Lost Ground sitting in my library. They like Modern Life Is War but just not as good?"

i kinda think they're pretty much same level tbh

Not really expecting greatness since I'm not too big on melodic hardcore but i'll check anyways. Who knows may be surprised ;]

tr00

@emester definitely check Travels and Lost Ground

Do people still listen to melodic hardcore?

Yes?

Way to be unsure.

the drums sound so fucking bad like some fuckin mallcore tone what the fuck defeater

I'm a bit perplexed that these guys haven't evolved their sound.

I quite like the drums in this

the drum playing is fine but that's got to be one of the worst tones I've ever heard
when he does multi piece rolls it just sounds like a garbled mess
like in Spared in Hell goddamn

Fair enough man

jesus, again?

Can they PLEASE do something thematically different, I'm so sick of this band's lyricism

Will give this a listen eventually but the first single didnt catch me at all.

I feel like they've offered everything they could have conjured up with this sound in their first couple albums. It's too repetitious now..

got some good moments but it's a bit too same-ish compared to all of their other material

This story should have been hung up after Empty Days - I mean it was already getting a bit tired by that point.

They need to ditch this goddamn dumb world war 2 concept and make an actual album

I'm really disappointed, even as someone who enjoyed Letters Home. The drums sound awful and there's hardly any emotion, desperation or energy to the sound anymore