Defiant Brood were already featured on the pages of this webzine. They are hailing from Western MD, USA and playing horrorpunk/deathrock. This is their new full length studio album that I had fortune to listen and review for this zine.

The album contains intro and 13 songs of eerie melody and horror and macabre. After the said intro(“El Maldito”), the title song tells us a story about the withering and dying of nature and rebirth. Sarie´s vocals are more convincing and stronger than before and the song is a real hit. “Mina” is a slower ode to vampiric longing with beautiful chorus. “Mad mouth” is a horrorpunk anthem inspired by in my opinion one of the best horror movies of all time John Carpenter´s “In the mouth of madness” and I could almost hear the screams of Sutter Kane listening to the eerie chorus melody in this song. The punping bass intro to “Silver bullet” announces my favorite Stephen King movie and novel but the music and lyrics are talking to me from the werewolf´s point of view of anguish and despair of the man beast. The best song on the record for me is “Night air” with memorable guitar melody and anthemic chorus making it a horrorpunk song to remember and show it to the kids as an example. Elisabeth Bathory was a Hungarian countess that used to bathe in virgin´s blood to stay young and she is the theme of “Bloodbath”, another highlight of this album with ooo sing a long parts and super melodiy and energy in the song structure. “Natural born” as I understood it is in fact a love song about two killer ghouls against the world. What can I say, I am a real dark romantic indeed! “The urge” is the fastest song on the record and one of top three best songs on the record, I loved the evil energy crawling between the melody and cutting sharp guitar riffs. Excellent song! “Wildcat hollow” is a ghoulish ode to immortality and staying where you died not being able to move on. The song chorus about the house tormenting the soul made goosebumps on my hand with the melody. “Ode to aliens” is a fast anthem whose title speaks it all for the song. “Nightmare” is a song from the serial killer/psychopath point of view. “Drink you dry” and “The watcher” close this album in a perfect way. This is an awesome album, so go get it!

8/10

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Get the album: https://defiantbrood.bandcamp.com/album/season-of-decay

Defiant Brood is an American band hailing from Cumberland, MD and as I can understand, this is their debut ep.

Ths music this band plays is a mixture of horrorpunk and deathrock. The ep consists of 5 songs, one of them being “Hybrid Moments” cover by The Misfits. Some songs are faster like my favourite “The Urge”, some are more deathrock oriented like “Mina” but on the record usually prevails good old melodic horrorpunk. Vocalist Sarah is a very able singer and I can only imagine how good this material comes across live at the gigs. As I see, very soon the new full length album is out, so I am looking forward to this material. This band is one decent horrorpunk DIY band and check out their music, show them some love and support. I am sure the guys from Defiant Brood will know how to appreciate it.

7,5/10

Follow: https://www.facebook.com/defiantbroodband/

Bandcamp: https://defiantbrood.bandcamp.com/album/the-exhumed-ep