HARD NOISE: ACT OF DEFIANCE // Set Date For ‘Old Scars, New Wounds’

Technologic heavy metal supergroup Act of Defiance have set a 29th of September release date for their second album on Metal Blade, Old Scars, New Wounds.

The band features ex-Megadeth luminaries Chris Broderick on guitar and Shawn Drover on drums. Henry Derek on vocals and Matt Bachand on bass rounds out the group. They’ve released a video for single M.I.A, which you can listen to here.

The album is a follow-up to 2015’s Birth and the Burial. The album deals with anger, fake news, hardcore drug use and other heavy topics.

“[The song] Mis-Information Age is very applicable in today’s social climate, where we can no longer blindly trust the source of facts that determine our view,” Broderick says in a statement. “It asserts that we should be skeptical, making sure we have the truth and not someone’s propaganda, while Broken Dialect conveys the idea that people can no longer hold a conversation with each other where their views differ, instead turning to sources that only support the view they want to hold on to.”

The band also promises Broderick delivers “blistering solos on every track” even though it was not his plan.

“I actually wanted to tone it down a bit technically in terms of my solos, but the opposite happened! This was because I inadvertently ended up creating a few new techniques to use in my trick bag and saw their potential, so I worked really hard on the execution so they could make the record.”

Act of Defiance hired producer Dave Otero (Cattle Decapitation, Allegaeon) to track the record, despite being scattered across the continental United States. Broderick laid down guitars in his own Ill-Fated Studios in LA. He tracked Derek and Broderick’s at Red Light Studios also in LA, with Bachand tracking his contributions at Manshark in South Hampton, MA. Drover’s drums were laid down at Atlanta, GA’s Glow In The Dark Studios.

Pre-orders are available now via Nerve Gas.

Old Scars, New Wounds tracklist
1. M.I.A.
2. Molten Core
3. Overexposure
4. The Talisman
5. Lullaby of Vengeance
6. Circle of Ashes
7. Reborn
8. Conspiracy of the Gods
9. Another Killing Spree
10. Broken Dialect
11. Rise of Rebellion