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The production on this album is awful sounding similiar to modern black metal like Watain and Merrimack. Who the hell thought that a slick modern, over-compressed, washy, everything-run-together-with-the-drums-on-top production fit this band? Defiance has close to zero dynamic range, and practically the entire album is clipping. Everything's very close to the same (ridiculously-overdriven) volume, even when it shouldn't be (for example, the lead vocals, backing vocals, and lead guitar on A Sermon To The Dead), which takes all the impact from the performance. Nothing "stands out" from this production at all, so every single part with vocals and more than two instruments sounds terrible on the album. There are lead guitar parts which can barely be heard, and much of the lyrics are incomprehensible, buried as they are beneath a messy layer of instrumentation. A barely average release from an above average band! (1 1/2 out of 5) Buy Unchain the Wolves, Phoenix Rising, Cold Steel...For An Iron Age and Terror Abraxas to hear the band at their absolute best!Read full review
Defiance is another powerful, uncompromising slab of wrath from this most wrathful of bands great album ...kick big asss!!! love it m/
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