DEFEATER have premiered a new song, “Spared in Hell”, via a music video! Pre-orders for the new album are available here, with an iTunes pre-order for the deluxe version containing two bonus tracks and a digital booklet here.
The band recorded it earlier this year with guitarist and longtime in-house producer Jay Maas. The label says that “Abandoned is the most relentlessly raw and uncompromising chapter so far, powered by a renewed sense of artistic ambition and a plot twist no one expected.
Abandoned was written and recorded in a welcome period of relief in Archambault’s life, after he’d finally received a life-changing surgery that repaired severe hip damage he suffered in an injury. Archambault’s surgery, he says, allowed him to redouble his connection with his own writing, leaving him clear to truly inhabit what he calls his own Glass family–after the famous J.D. Salinger characters. The new album chronicles the story of a lapsed Catholic priest, whose battles in Europe during the war drag him first toward faith and then his own poisonous faithlessness.
Archambault states:
‘One of the threads running through this record is how people sometimes look for the answers to their problems in the darkest places.'”
“Abandoned” track list:
1. Contrition
2. Unanswered
3. December 1943
4. Spared In Hell
5. Divination
6. Borrowed & Blue
7. Penance
8. Remorse
9. Pillar Of Salt
10. Atonement
11. Vice & Regret
DEFEATER U.S. TOUR DATES with FOUR YEAR STRONG, EXPIRE [9/1-9/23], SUPERHEAVEN [9/25-10/11], SPEAK LOW IF YOU SPEAK LOVE (full band) [9/1-9/12], MY IRON LUNG [9/14-9/23], ELDER BROTHER (acoustic) [9/25-10/11]
09-01 Grog Shop – Cleveland Heights, OH
09-02 Shelter – Detroit, MI
09-03 The Bottom Lounge – Chicago, IL
09-04 Triple Rock Social Club – Minneapolis, MN
09-05 The Firebird – St. Louis, MO
09-06 The Waiting Room – Omaha, NE
09-08 Marquis Theater – Denver, CO
09-09 The Complex – Salt Lake City, UT
09-11 The Crocodile – Seattle, WA
09-12 Hawthorne Theater- Portland, OR
09-14 The Boardwalk – Orangevale, CA
09-15 Epicentre – San Diego, CA
09-16 Chain Reaction – Anaheim, CA
09-17 Chain Reaction – Anaheim, CA
09-18 Club Red – Tempe, AZ
09-19 The Works – Albuquerque, NM
09-21 Gas Monkey – Dallas, TX
09-22 Red 7 – Austin, TX
09-23 Warehouse Live – Houston, TX
09-25 The Social – Orlando, FL
09-26 O’Malley’s – Margate, FL
09-27 Local 662 – St. Petersburg, FL
09-28 The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
09-29 Exit/In – Nashville, TN
09-30 Headliners – Louisville, KY
10-01 The Altar Bar – Pittsburgh, PA
10-02 Rock & Roll Hotel – Washington, DC
10-03 Shakas Live – Virginia Beach, VA
10-04 Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA
10-06 Gramercy Theater – New York, NY
10-07 The Chance Theatre – Poughkeepsie, NY
10-10 The Waiting Room – Buffalo, NY
10-11 The Middle East – Cambridge, MA
DEFEATER live with CRUEL HAND, BEING AS AN OCEAN and more as a part of 2015 Never Say Die Tour!
06.11.15 Germany Wiesbaden Schlachthof
07.11.15 Belgium Antwerp Trix
08.11.15 UK London Koko
09.11.15 UK Manchester Club Academy & Academy 2
10.11.15 UK Glasgow Garage
11.11.15 UK Bristol Marble Factory
12.11.15 Holland Haarlem Patronaat
13.11.15 Germany Hamburg Markthalle
14.11.15 Germany Berlin Astra
15.11.15 Czech Rep Prague Meet Factory
16.11.15 Hungary Budapest Dürer Kert
17.11.15 Austria Wien Arena
18.11.15 Italy Bologna Zona Roveri
19.11.15 Germany München Backstage
20.11.15 Switzerland Pratteln Z7
21.11.15 France Lyon CCO
22.11.15 Spain Barcelona Razzmatazz
23.11.15 Spain Madrid Sala Cats
24.11.15 France Bordeaux Rock School Barbey
25.11.15 France Paris Machine Du Moulin Rouge
26.11.15 Germany Stuttgart LKA
27.11.15 Germany Oberhausen Turbinenhalle 2
28.11.15 Germany Leipzig Werk 2
