Brutal innovators slamming into 2025 with European headlining tour
Chronicles of Lunacy climbs year-end lists at Loudwire, Angry Metal Guy, MetalSucks, New Noise + more
“This is some Juan Soto in the box confidence, the sound of a band that knows it’s the best” – Stereogum
Fans and critics have been losing their minds over Defeated Sanity. Last year, brutal death metal’s most relentless innovators returned to the raw brutality of their early classics, but the band’s new album has also taken their legacy to even greater extremes. Not only has Chronicles of Lunacy landed on notable year-end lists from across the world of metal, rock and pop. It’s also broken onto the Billboard charts.
“Germany’s gods of brutality never disappoint” Loudwire write in naming Chronicles of Lunacy one of the best death metal albums of 2024.
“Chronicles of Lunacy is 2024’s most vivid reminder of why I love death metal”, Angry Metal Guy’s Maddog howls, slotting the album at #8 on their year-end list.
“…it’s simply amazing that they can pull this insane shit off live!”, says Dave Davidson of Revocation, who named Chronicles of Lunacy one of his top albums from last year.
While known for their mind-bending jazzy interludes, Defeated Sanity aren’t ones to slow down. The band are slamming into 2025 with their first headlining tour of Europe in six years. To gear up for this 20+ date run, they’re releasing a new playthrough from Chronicles of Lunacy. “Amputationsdrang” opens their new album and it wastes no time before burying you underground. Even when Jacob Schmidt slips off into an oozing, bouncy groove, the tone of his Modulus Quantum bass keeps the song’s low-end nice and filthy.
Watch Defeated Sanity bassist Jacob Schmidt rip through Amputationsdrang: https://youtu.be/AK-uBD2T8Os
The third pressing of Chronicles of Lunacy is now available on Season of Mist.
Order the limited-edition yellow vinyl: https://orcd.co/defeatedsanitythecroniclesoflunacy
Get tickets for Defeated Sanity’s European tour: https://defeatedsanity.com/
Note: The February 15 date was originally scheduled for Berlin but has been re-routed to Rostock.
Defeated Sanity Chronicles of Lunacy 2025 European Tour
January 23 – Wolfburg, DE @ Jugendhaus OST*
January 24 – Hambourg, DE @ Bambi Galore*
January 25 – Copenhagen, DE @ Temple of Doom*
January 26 – Dyestad, SE @ Dyestads Bygata*
January 27 – Stockholm, SE @ Kollektivet Livet*
January 28 – Aalborg, DK @ Studenterhuset*
January 29 – Tilburg, NL @ Hall of Fame*
January 30 – Lille, FR @ The Black Lab*
January 31 – Paris, FR @ Glazart*
February 1 – Basel, CH @ Kaschemme Basel*
February 2 – Milan, IT @ Slaughter Club*
February 3- Graz, AT @ Explosiv*
February 4 – Vienna, AT @ Escape^
February 5 – Zagreb, HR @ Klub Močvara^
February 6 – Budapest, HU @ Dürer Kert^
February 7 – Belgrade, RS @ Dorcol Platz^
February 8 – Sofia, BG @ Oldskulls Club^
February 9 – Varna,BG @ Club Smile^
February 10 – Bucharest, RO @ Quantic^
February 11 – Cluj-Napoca, RO @ Flying Circus^
February 12 – Košice, SK @ Collosseum Club^
February 13 – Prague, CZ @ Modrá Vopice^
February 14 – Bielsko-Biala, PL @ Rudeboy Club^
February 15 – Rostock, DE @ M.A.U. Club^
* with Iniquitous Savagery, Strangle Wire
^ with Asylum, Embryonic Devourment
Defeated Sanity 2025 European Festival Dates
9-13 July – Trutnov, CZ @ Obscene Extreme
25-27 July – Manchester, UK @ Offal Fest
6 – 9 August – Jaroměř, CZ @ Brutal Assault
Tracklist
1. Amputationsdrang (2:30) [WATCH]
2. The Odour Of Sanctity (3:36) [WATCH]
3. Accelerating The Rot (3:22) [WATCH]
4. Temporal Disintegration (5:52) [WATCH]
5. Extrinsically Enraged (4:09) [WATCH]
6. A Patriarchy Perverse (4:16)
7. Condemned to Vascular Famine (6:00)
8. Heredity Violated (3:48)
Total runtime: 33:35
Country: Germany / United States
Style: Brutal Technical Death Metal
FFO: Cannibal Corpse, Immolation, Suffocation, Devourment
More praise for Defeated Sanity
“One of the most extreme things I’ve ever heard” – Decibel
“…will become a new favorite among the fanbase” – Lambgoat
“…one of the top metal albums of 2024” – New Noise
“Tempo switches, impeccable precision, and a discordance that melts the mind define this monster” – PopMatters
“A jazz ensemble hiding in plain sight as a brutal tech-death band” – No Clean Singing
“Defeated Sanity speak my language, and brother, they are downright poetic with it” – Metal Sucks
“Defeated Sanity continue to defend their title as a group that effortlessly blends elements from all across the death metal board and merge them into a cohesive and memorable beast” – Dead Rhetoric
“…continues to be a definitive Final Boss in brutal death metal” – Last Rites
“The band is legendary in their genre for a reason” – Everything Is Noise
“Defeated Sanity’s brutality comes almost entirely from their demandingly intricate songwriting” – Toilet Over Hell
“Defeated Sanity has crafted a sound that is wholly their own” – Heaviest of Art
“a near-scientific celebration of death metal’s long and lurid history” – Toilet Ov Hell