Rising UK metallers Defects have revealed the official video for “Echo Chamber” to coincide with the release of their debut album ‘Modern Error,’ out today on Mascot Records. You can watch the video HERE.
 
Defects will play three special UK headline shows – 28 May, Old Blue Last – London, 30 May, Asylum 2 – Birmingham and 21 May, Statans Hollow – Manchester –   around the release of their debut album and they will  also be joining Of Mice & Men on their tour of the UK and Europe in June as well as festival appearances at Download (UK), Graspop (Belgium), Rockharz (Germany) and Rock the Lakes (Switzerland). You can get tickets from HERE.

Talking about the new track, singer Tony Maue says, “Echo chamber is one of our proudest songs that gave me a chance to touch base on how I’ve felt over the last 16 years. It’s a song that reflects over what it means to still be here moving forward and the trauma that comes with it. It also serves as a way of addressing the elephant in the room and finally being able to close the door on that chapter of my life. Creating my own closure instead of looking for it.”
 
Modern Error is breathtakingly raw with emotion. Conceptually, it is 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. Threaded through the album are Maue’s experiences, how the five members of the band are all connected, and why, at this moment, right now, is the right time for this band to exist. For themselves as much as anyone else.

They have already dropped six singles from the album. This year they released Modern Error, which crushes and paints a poignant message about the path the world is heading down and Lockdown which captures mental challenges. Previously, the Arena bulldozing Broken Bloodlines announced their signing to Mascot records, which followed  Dream Awake, Scapegoat and End of Days.

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

They spent March on an exhilarating European Tour with Orbit Culture, which followed tearing through Europe at the end of 2023 with Of Mice & Men, which built on their already formidable arsenal of touring following shows with Bullet for My Valentine, Funeral for a Friend and In Flames, as well as performing at festivals such as Bloodstock, 2000Trees and The Great Escape.

All five members have their stories – Tony Maue (Vocals), Luke Genders (Guitar), James Threadwell (Guitar), David Silver (Bass) and Harry Jennings (Drums) – and the album hits with the heaviness and aggression of Lamb Of God and Machine Head, a Linkin Park-like sense of melody, and a touch of Bring Me The Horizon’s fearlessness. For all its heavy subject matter, it burns with vitality, power, passion and woven within is their outlook on the world.

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

Tour Dates
 
Tickets are available from www.wearedefects.com
 
28 May – The Old Blue Last, London
30 May – Asylum 2, Birmingham
31 May – Satans, Manchester
14 Jun – Download Festival – Derby, UK
17 Jun – The Globe, Cardiff, UK w/Of Mice & Men
18 Jun – Forum, Tunbridge Wells, UK w/Of Mice & Men
20 Jun – Laiterie, Strasbourg, FRANCE w/Of Mice & Men
21 Jun – Le Slendid, Lille, FRANCE w/Of Mice & Men
22 Jun – Graspop Festival – Dessel, BELGIUM
24 Jun – Rockhal, Esch-Sur-Alzette, LUXEMBOURG w/Of Mice & Men
26 Jun – MusikZentrum, Hannover, GERMANY w/Of Mice & Men
27 Jun – Kavka, Antwerp, BELGIUM w/Of Mice & Men
03 – 06 Jul – Rockharz Festival – Ballenstedt, GERMANY
16 – 18 Aug – Rock the Lakes Festival – Vallamand, SWITZERLAND

Following on from their exhilarating European Tour with Orbit Culture, fast-rising UK metallers Defects have revealed the lyric video to their brand-new track, “Modern Error.” You can watch the video HERE.
 
The song is taken from their profoundly personal debut album, Modern Error, which will be released on 24 May via Mascot Records. Listen/Pre-Order HERE

“Our run with Orbit Culture has been amazing,” the band says. “They are like family now for sure. Great band and crew and it’s been super chilled. The shows on this run have been packed full of energy and raw intensity. It’s been overwhelming having people come up to us after buying merch and telling us that we are up there now with their favourite bands.”

The anthemic title track equally crushes and paints a poignant message as singer Tony Maue explains, “We started writing the single Modern Error back in 2019 and it came together quite quickly. I had written bits about the way the world was going and when I heard this track it fuelled me to carry on and see where it went. I think the song is a good word of warning to the people running the world and how it needs to change.”
 
The track follows on from recent single Lockdown, which captured the mental challenges of the pandemic. 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.” This rolled into the room after the Arena bulldozing Broken Bloodlines which focuses on leaving behind negative forces in your life.
 
Modern Error is breathtakingly raw with emotion. Conceptually, it is 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. Threaded through the album are the experiences that Maue has been through, how the five members of the band are all connected and why, at this moment, right now, is the right time for this band to exist. For themselves as much as anyone else. 

There is a reason that the album has such personal themes. “I use songwriting as a tool to vent rather than be poetic,” explains Maue. He was taken into care from a young age, and that trauma and the experiences that followed are ones that he has battled with ever since. “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.”
 
All five members have their stories – Tony Maue (Vocals), Luke Genders (Guitar), James Threadwell (Guitar), David Silver (Bass) and Harry Jennings (Drums). Jennings explains his entry, “I’d stopped enjoying playing music, which I had dedicated my life to since I was 7 years old,” he says. “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.”
 
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.”

Modern Error hits with the heaviness and aggression of Lamb Of God and Machine Head, a Linkin Park-like sense of melody, and a touch of Bring Me The Horizon’s fearlessness. For all its heavy subject matter, it burns with vitality, power and passion. Woven within is their outlook on the world.

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

Defects smashed into 2024 on the back of a triumphant European tour with Of Mice & Men and the announcement that they will be playing this year’s Download festival. They’ve added these to their already impressive live cannon which includes shows with Bullet for My Valentine, Funeral for a Friend and In Flames as well as performing at festivals such as Bloodstock, 2000Trees and The Great Escape.  They are continuing to steamroll through the year with festival slots at  Download (UK), Graspop (BE), Rockharz (DE) and Rock The Lakes (CH).

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

Tour Dates
 
Tickets are available from www.wearedefects.com
 
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

UK metallers Defects will release their profoundly personal debut album, Modern Error, on 24 May via Mascot Records. They have also revealed the video for their brand-new song Lockdown.
 
Listen/Pre-Order HERE

Recently the band have been confirmed to play at Download (UK), Graspop (BE), Rockharz (DE) and Rock The Lakes (CH) and have just announced that they will join Orbit Culture on their UK & European “Descending Into Madness” March tour. They will call through the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic and Poland. Tickets are available from HERE.

Modern Error is breathtakingly raw with emotion. Conceptually, it is 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.
 
Threaded through the album are the experiences that Maue has been through, how the five members of the band are all connected and why, at this moment, right now, is the right time for this band to exist. For themselves as much as anyone else.  
 
There is a reason that the album has such personal themes. “I use songwriting as a tool to vent rather than be poetic,” explains Maue. He was taken into care from a young age, and that trauma and the experiences that followed are ones that he has battled with ever since. “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,” he considers. “We are all defects in a way, but that makes us all unique.” 

This was the first time he could express these raw feelings in music. Scapegoat, Goliath and Echo Chamber are all about a family member but from different perspectives and Recurring looks at the mental loops that come with dealing with trauma.
 
All five members have their stories – Tony Maue (Vocals), Luke Genders (Guitar), James Threadwell (Guitar), David Silver (Bass) and Harry Jennings (Drums). Jennings explains his entry, “I’d stopped enjoying playing music, which I had dedicated my life to since I was 7 years old,” he says. “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.” 
 
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.”

Modern Error hits with the heaviness and aggression of Lamb Of God and Machine Head, a Linkin Park-like sense of melody, and a touch of Bring Me The Horizon’s fearlessness. For all its heavy subject matter, it burns with vitality, power and passion. Woven within is their outlook on the world. The title-track deals with “how the planet is going to crap”, Another Heart To Bleed is about bad relationships, End of Days explores where the world is heading with greed and Dream Awake delves into being trapped in a digital reality.  The new single Lockdown is about the mental challenges of the pandemic. 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.”
 
Getting back on the stage for their first tour was a colossal moment for the band. “It was overwhelming,” remembers Maue. “In Southampton with In Flames, I came off stage and broke down. I was crying because I was happy. I can’t believe I’ve been given another chance to do this. Not only that, I couldn’t believe that everyone was digging what we were doing.”
 
They flourished, catapulting them to performing at Bloodstock, 2000Trees, The Great Escape, playing with Bullet for My Valentine, Funeral For A Friend and touring with Of Mice & Men. Jennings reflects, “I had times when I never thought I’d be here again. It was like someone put a defibrillator on me and woke me up from a horrible fever dream.”

What do Defects represent? It’s about believing in yourself. It’s a message to people to give themselves a break occasionally. Jennings remarks. “It’s fine to have bad days. I’ve had my fair share of times very recently. But y’know, everyone can pick themselves up, and go, I’m gonna do me.”
 
“I felt like I wasn’t worth anything,” Maue adds. “But now I look back, and that was wrong; I shouldn’t have been made to feel that way. When I got older, I realised I was a good person and didn’t do anything wrong. Bad things happen to good people, and you must find a way to make life worth living.”
 
In reaching out to someone, there can be change; in change, there can be hope. It’s in the hope that you can try to go forward and make something of yourself. We are all defects.

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 http://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