About this project

Defeater is an abrasive, melodic hardcore band from Boston, MA. The band has toured the US and internationally with the likes of Comeback Kid, Polar Bear Club, Ruiner, Verse and Have Heart. We first released Travels in 2008 and on vinyl earlier this year. However, it has since sold out. With our resources locked up in other current and upcoming projects, we decided to launch a Kickstarter campaign to try and finance the repressing. If you'd like to have a copy of this [now out of print] album, then pick a tier to the right and pitch in! Then tell your friends and help spread the word and hopefully we can make this happen. We've thrown together some pretty rad package deals so anyone who supports can potentially pick up some pretty awesome stuff in the process.

If you're unfamiliar with the band, below is a link to their Myspace profile along with several snippets of Travels reviews. Thanks for your interest!

http://www.myspace.com/defeater

“...[A] new artistic peak for hardcore.” -Punknews (4 out of 5)

“Bottom Line: Defeater is the perfect definition of modern hardcore. The band’s older work under the Sluts moniker was enjoyable, but Travels has upped the ante on all fronts. This is essential listening material for fans of Modern Life Is War, Verse, and Bridge Nine’s current catalog.” -Lambgoat

“It’s an extremely diverse (though cohesive) blend of influences, from its more aggressive and discordant textures and almost straightforward hardcore power chords to its ringing post-hardcore dissonance and energetic bursts of those subtly technical little arpeggiated riffs...It’s an impressive debut that sort of takes this lofty, artistic style of hardcore a little farther than most, which is quite promising.” -Aversion

“Sometimes you know when a hardcore record is going to be a bit special before you even put it in the player. This is one of those times....Think a mix of the best parts of Shai Hulud, Boy Sets Fire, Give up the Ghost and Botch and you won’t be far wrong...head and shoulders above most hardcore cliche nonsense. ” -Die Shell Suit (9 out of 10)

“No introduction, just a cavalcade of insanity.” -Way Too Loud

“...[W]ith Travels I see Defeater not only fitting in with their contemporaries like Have Heart and Verse, I also see them as a band that other bands will try to emulate in the next few years...an energetic mammoth powerhouse that you can feel that the band just puts everything they have into every lyric, every riff, every snare hit...They have a formula of emotive hard hitting hardcore that crashes you like waves during a typhoon...Defeater tell a compelling story that wraps up the listener into a collision of sounds, hard hitting rhythms, and stabs at chaos.” -Scene Point Blank

“...[A]brasive, abrupt, angry hardcore. It blasts out of the starting gates and never stops. It’s an unrelenting attack of ferocious vocals alongside intricate and heavy guitars. It’s technical while not following a certain trend of rampant breakdowns and chugging guitars.” -The Punk Site

“...[A]mbitious, viciously swift hardcore...the musicianship is seasoned beyond the middle of the bell curve.” -Pastepunk