It’s not often that you find innovation in death metal and that alone should warrant your attention. Defect Designer have delivered a thrilling new album that’s quirky, colourful and wildly unpredictable. It’s streaming in full now. Please check it out on YouTube or on Bandcamp and give it a chance if you haven’t yet!
PRESS –
– “With this album, Defect Designer have cemented their place as one of the most original extreme metal bands on the planet” – Wormwood Chronicles (US)
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– “simultaneously fun and what-is-happening perplexing” – Last Rites (US)
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– “there aren’t many bands who have the balls to attempt such a record” – The Razor’s Edge (UK)
https://therazorsedge.rocks/
– “takes you places you normally don’t witness in the realms of death metal” – Head-Banger Reviews (US)
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– “In a nutshell, more madness” – No Clean Singing (US)
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– “Pay attention to Defect Designer” – Dargedik (Peru) 8.4/10
https://www.dargedik.com/2024/
– “very idiosyncratic riffing” – Stormbringer (Austria) 3.5/5
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– “Truly a very welcome discovery” – Metalhead.it (Italy) 7.5/10
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– “explosive, unpredictable patterns” – Acta Infernalis (France) 75/100
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– “burst through the norms of the death and grind genres” – Distorted Sound (UK)
https://distortedsoundmag.com/
– “should be applauded for trying something different” – Musipedia of Metal (UK)
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– “Death Metal fans will love the album for sure” – Metal Temple (Greece)
https://metal-temple.com/review/defect-designer-chitin/
Norwegian death metal band Defect Designer have taken things to another level with their hugely anticipated new full length album. It comes on the heels of their well-received EP release where they showcased their skills most recently, playing in their own trademark weird style with a sense of vibrancy that was unmatched. The grind urgency has since been supplanted with more of a thrashy influence and sees the death metal part of their sound getting more pronounced along with their innate, irrepressible flair for progressive experimentation. The music is just as wild, imaginative and colourful as you would expect from them, and much like their Ian Miller artwork, it has mind-boggling intricate details. Each song seems to offer something unique to the release, even adding a dimension or two in some cases, and despite all the infinite intricacies, there’s a sense of rhythmic catchiness and cohesiveness. In simple words, this is a refreshing death metal record of the kind that you don’t get too often. It has an unhinged, free-spirited quality to it which is impossible to recreate and the sheer delight derived in creatively putting together this record is palpable, nay, infectious, to say the least. Suitably challenging and outrageously boisterous, ‘Chitin’ will set your head on fire while putting a smile on your face.
For fans of – Diskord, Atvm, Februus, Demilich, Contrastic, Swelling Repulsion, Disharmonic Orchestra
Line up –
Dmitry Sukhinin (Diskord) – Guitars, vocals, music, lyrics
Martin Storm-Olsen – Bass, vocals, lyrics, sound engineering
Eugene Ryabchenko (Fleshgod Apocalypse) – Drums
Guest vocals by Björn Strid (Soilwork) on Shine Shine
Track listing:
1. Uglification Spell
2. To Ziggurat
3. Simulacrum
4. We Will Need Your Chitin
5. We Prescribe
6. Certainty After The Kafkaesque Twist
7. Gaudy Colors From Your Plastic Bag
8. Shine Shine
9. Story Of A Styrofoam
10. Insomnia
11. Nu, Pogodi!
12. Orgone Accumulator
Official release date – March 14th, 2024