The Defaced

Updates:
* (070602)
Gig!
We're happy to announce a gig as support to the mighty Type O Negative. The thing will go down on June 6th in Malmö at club KB. Hope to see you there. Rock on!
Cheers!
/The Defaced
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All right, here we go!!!
Today is a cool day! We’ve made some updates that we’ve really been longing for to make! We’ve uploaded samples of three new songs on www.myspace.com/thedefaced. “Blood of emeralds” is a full song and “Remaining eternal” and “Flame to life” are samples. Anyways, enough for you to get a small picture of what “Anomaly” sounds like. Hope you guys get in to it! We’ve also uploaded photos from a shoot we did just a couple of weeks ago. So be sure to check it all out! Our management is starting up the process now of finding a label for the release of “Anomaly”. We’ll see where we end up, we’ve got some good leads…
Cheers!
/Swaney and The Defaced
* (070423)
HOLY HELL!!!
It’s been way too long since we updated this page. But, we’re right on track here people. What we’ve been up to since the final mastering of the album was made is just basically taking some time off. Charging the batteries and warming up the engine. Basically, we needed a break to get back focus.
Delays, delays and delays into stupidity… But it definitely turned out to be on the better side of things. We got our shit together, re-recorded the vocals and re-mixed the album. And here we are, with a hell of an album for you and a management with a plan!
On Monday April 30th we’ll post samples of 3 new songs on www.myspace.com/thedefaced. One of them is a full song, so how about that? We’ll also update with some smoking fresh photos of the new line up shot just the other week.
We haven’t talked much about what the album sounds like so far but to summarize I guess you could say that we didn’t want to care about what others would say when they heard the final product. We wrote songs as they came along with all the ingredients you would expect from The Defaced. “Anomaly” is more diverse, more dynamic… has more grooves, more energy, more melodies, more aggression…just more of everything. A natural progression from “Karma in black”. “Anomaly” has a range from mellow to fast pounding songs. But hey: Fear not, it’s all The Defaced.
This sounds like the usual blah blah from a band releasing an album. But this is our honest to god damn opinion that this album is right up there, all hands down. Hope you’ll feel it too when you hear it.
Our management is already in talks with labels for the release. More shipping of “Anomaly” will reach other labels in short. Hopefully we know before this summer who’s going to release “Anomaly” and have it out to you guys early fall.
The track listing reads as follows:
Remaining eternal
Flame to life
Blood of emeralds
In solitude entwined
The perfect shame
Circle VIII
Renewal defined
Imprisoned insolence
Turn to incomplete
The fundamental human neurosis
The Test
Bonus tracks:
Exhale
The spirit of ecstasy
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There you go people, hell yeah! We’re back on track, stronger than ever!
Cheers!
/Swaney and The Defaced
* (070307) Added 5 pictures from a live gig with Darkane and Soilwork (Sweden 2006)
The Defaced was born in late 1999 after the members had broken off with their pasts in different local acts. The line-up proved to be molded out of hardest steel in both musicianship and friendship. Henrik Sjowall, Mattias Svensson, Klas Ideberg (Darkane / Terror 2000), Jorgen Lofberg (Darkane) and Henry Ranta (Soilwork) started writing material for the purpose of recording a demo to be sent to labels. When several songs were ready the band hit the studio to lay down four tracks. The result turned out very well indeed which was proven with the fact that the demo was sent to only one label (Scarlet) that immediately signed the band. The Defaced started writing and preparing for the recording of a debut album, which was recorded in February 2001 in Hit-Parade studios in Orkelljunga, Sweden.
The album, “Domination Commence”, was released in September the same year in Europe and Japan, and in February 2002 in the American territories, by Nuclear Blast America. “Domination Commence” rounded up tons of great reviews and the bands reputation started to grow. Live gigs were hailed, both domestically and internationally which strengthened the reputation even further.
In August of 2002 The Defaced was once again ready to hit the studio, this time for the recording of the second album. Many things had changed for the band, in the musical expression as well as in the sound. It was evident, even at pre-production, that the new material was going bring the bands sound and material up not just a notch, but miles above the first album. The recording sessions this time around were to take place in Queenstreet Recording and in Not quite studio.
In October of 2002 the album was finished. With fat production, strong melodies, creativity, originality and skill: The result totally speaks for itself! The album was given the title “Karma in Black” and a video was shot for the track Once in Between.
In 2004 Lofberg left the band and was replaced by Mattias Andersen. With his dynamic base playing he created the perfect complement to The Defaced’s sound. New songs were already finished and the band entered the Studio in 2005 to record a third album. The new record was recorded in Ceasar Studio (ex Queenstreet recordings) and Palace of Noise studio and was mixed by Klas Ideberg in Sensus Studios in Helsingborg.
In 2005 Henrik Sjowall and Henry Ranta left the band to concentrate on their private lives. Sjowall was replaced by Jens Broman and the drum chair was filled by Henrik Pommer. New members mean new blood and a new start for a second chapter of The Defaced. The band decided to re-record the vocals for the new album since Broman brought a more aggressive sound to the vocals than before and added more melodic influences.
The title of the album is set to “Anomaly” and the search for a new label home can commence…
The Defaced… stronger than ever…