Massachusetts-based Defeater has been hailed as a new artistic peak for hardcore by Punknews.org for their story-like approach to honest and intensely heavy music. With a new 7” EP due out, titled Lost Ground, Defeater is armed with six new songs about a man’s journey from enlisting in the military to post-war life. With the narrative focusing on the prophet from the song Prophet in Plain Clothes from their critically acclaimed debut, Travels, this new story is set to a volatile soundtrack of hardcore fury, punk melody, and metal technicality while the band explores some cleaner and bigger-sounding dynamics. Lost Ground is a musically precise and genre-bending release from this forward-thinking band. 

1. The Red, White, And Blues
2. The Bite And Sting
3. A Wound And Scar
4. Home Ain’t Never Home
5. Singin’ New York Town
6. Beggin’ In The Slums

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