{"id":13840,"date":"2013-08-06T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=13840"},"modified":"2013-08-31T09:46:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T09:46:24","slug":"album-review-the-defiled-daggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-the-defiled-daggers\/","title":{"rendered":"THE DEFILED – Daggers (2013) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE DEFILED
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\nNuclear Blast (2013)<\/span>
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London-based The Defiled have arrived with their second full-length album, Daggers<\/em>. The band have gained a lot of attention since they hit the scene in 2008 with their EP 1888<\/em> and there is little doubt that Daggers<\/em> will continue that momentum.<\/p>\n

Taking their cues from the latest incarnation of metalcore, the band don clever-ish nicknames and dress themselves up to look like the bastard sons of Dani Filth and Bleeding Through\u2019s Marta Peterson that \u201cabsolutely adore Uncle Scissorhands\u201d. Fortunately for all of us, The Defiled\u2019s music transcends their genre-bending image.<\/p>\n

Daggers<\/em> is all about the bouncy, beefy, chugging guitars, keyboards that fill the gaps and occasionally take the lead, big melodic choruses, and metalcore rhythms, all of which appear simultaneously in nearly every tune here. In a way it makes everything sound very similar, but in another way it keeps your head in their game because it\u2019s quite enjoyable right from the grandiose opening of the no-nonsense beast \u2018Sleeper\u2019. They may look like Warped tour material, but they bite just a little harder and prove it immediately. <\/p>\n

There are quite a few highlights here, provided you enjoy bands like Asking Alexandria, Bullet For My Valentine, Underoath and Motionless In White. \u2018Porcelain\u2019 has a little Linkin Park vibe to it, especially the vocals on the mammoth chorus that I find myself extremely drawn to. It\u2019s got a little off-kilter flavour, an almost 90s grunge tinge to it that makes it stand out from the rest of the album on the verses. \u2018Five Minutes\u2019 is another moment that breaks from the norm. A metalcore ballad of sorts, it\u2019s got an acoustic versus industrial thing going on but it\u2019s the darker, groovier vocal that really sells me. <\/p>\n

While I find myself gravitating towards the few tracks that defer from the norm, the norm here is pretty solid. \u2018Infected\u2019, \u2018Saints And Sinners\u2019 and \u2018No Place Like Home\u2019 are all really good songs that feature all of the above mentioned standards of the genre while boasting a much more passionate sound than many of their peers. Producer Jason Suecof (Trivium, DevilDriver, Motionless In White) was obviously a good choice for this band and really kept their passionate performance at the forefront of the sound.<\/p>\n

Overall, this is a very good album, maybe even great if the current crop of metalcore bands are your favourites. The Defiled have a broad appeal that shines through on Daggers<\/em> despite their clich\u00e9d presentation. <\/p>\n

Mark Fisher<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE DEFILEDDaggers Nuclear Blast (2013)Rating: 7\/10 London-based The Defiled have arrived with their second full-length album, Daggers. The band have gained a lot of attention since they hit the scene in 2008 with their EP 1888 and there is little doubt that Daggers will continue that momentum. Taking their cues from the latest incarnation of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,709],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-the-defiled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13840"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13847,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840\/revisions\/13847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}