DEFECTS Announce Debut Album ‘Modern Error’ & Release Video For “Lockdown”

 

 

UK modern metal rising stars Defects have just announced the release of their debut album “Modern Error” which will be landing on the 24th May. To mark the announcement our ones to watch 2024 have also dropped the music video for new single ‘Lockdown’ which was filmed across their UK & Euro tour supporting Of Mice & Men at the end of last year. The song is possibly one of their heaviest to date with intricate riffs, pummelling drums and vocalist Tony Maue’s impressive range delivering a huge sound that is made for the big stages.

The song is lyrically, as the title suggests, centered around the mental challenges of the pandemic as Maue explains,”The lyrics are probably some of my favourites on the album as it captures frustration towards a government and the rules we were made to follow.”

Check out the video here:

 

 

“Modern Error” is described as a deeply cathartic album that acts as a vessel for singer Tony Maue to organise his thoughts on the trauma of being taken into care at a young age, he explains: “I use songwriting as a tool to vent rather than be poetic… The traumatic memories of going into care, losing my family when I was very young, and having to deal with that and adjusting myself to that kind of lifestyle, at the time was brutal. The only thing that helped me, and I’m not just saying this, was music.”

“We’ve always been told to strive for perfection, but I don’t think anyone can be perfect… We are all defects in a way, but that makes us all unique.”

It’s not just catharsis for Maue either as drummer Harry Jennings describes the importance Defects has to him: “I’d stopped enjoying playing music, which I had dedicated my life to since I was 7 years old… It had all fallen apart. To feel like you’ve had a dream beaten out of you destroyed me as a person. It took me down a very dark path, and I did things I regret and am not proud of. I feel I’m in a position now where I can talk about it.” “It took a lot of help from the people closest to me, and these guys threw me a life raft; I was sinking,” he adds. “What connects us all is that we’ve all got our own stories, but in a different way.”

Speaking on the writing of the record guitarist Luke Genders says: “Having the freedom to write freely in a band whilst trusting and respecting each other’s vision is something I hadn’t had in a very long time; dismissive people helped me to fuel my instrumental contributions to Modern Error. For the first time ever, I learned how to channel negativity into something positive.”

It’s an exciting new chapter for an exciting new band who have all the ingredients to hit that next level and the “Modern Error” is just the start.

You can catch Defects live at this years Download (UK), Graspop (BE), Rockharz (DE) and Rock The Lakes (CH) festivals plus they have just announced that they will join Orbit Culture on their UK & European “Descending Into Madness” March tour. Tickets are available from HERE.

 

 

Track List

1. Intro
2. Scapegoat
3. End of Days
4. Dream Awake
5. Another Heart To Bleed
6. Recurring
7. Lockdown
8. Echo Chamber
9. Interlude
10. Modern Error
11. Broken Bloodlines
12. Second To None
13. Gone To Waste

Tour Dates

Tickets are available from www.wearedefects.com

06 Mar – The Cathouse – Glasgow, UK w/Orbit Culture
07 Mar – Exchange – Bristol UK w/Orbit Culture
08 Mar – Rebellion – Manchester, UK w/Orbit Culture
09 Mar – Asylum – Birmingham, UK w/Orbit Culture
10 Mar – The Underworld – London, UK w/Orbit Culture
12 Mar – Zappa – Antwerp, BELGIUM w/Orbit Culture
13 Mar – Kantine – Koln, GERMANY w/Orbit Culture
14 Mar – Dynamo – Eindhoven, THE NETHERLANDS w/Orbit Culture
15 Mar – Frannz – Berlin, GERMANY w/Orbit Culture
16 Mar – Headcrash – Hamburg, GERMANY w/Orbit Culture
18 Mar – Hansa 39 – Munich, GERMANY w/Orbit Culture
19 Mar – Santeria – Milan, ITALY w/Orbit Culture
20 Mar – Dynamo – Zurich, SWITZERLAND w/Orbit Culture
21 Mar – Flex – Vienna, AUSTRIA w/Orbit Culture
23 Mar – Club Puschkin – Dresden, GERMANY w/Orbit Culture
24 Mar – Futurum – Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC w/Orbit Culture
25 Mar – Hydrozagadka – Warsaw POLAND w/Orbit Culture

14-16 Jun – Download Festival – Derby, UK
20-23 Jun – Graspop Festival – Dessel, BELGIUM
03 – 06 Jul – Rockharz Festival – Ballenstedt, GERMANY
16 – 18 Aug – Rock the Lakes Festival – Vallamand, SWITZERLAND