DEFIANCE: Studio Update

October 20, 2006

Reunited Oakland, California thrashers DEFIANCE, best known for their seminal late '80s/early '90s Roadrunner releases "Void Terra Firma" and "Beyond Recognition", have entered Trident Studios in Concord, CA with producer Juan Urteaga (EXODUS, SKINLAB, VILE) to begin laying down tracks for their first full-length album in over ten years. The group has issued the following update:

"Just wanted to check back in to let you all know that the recording sessions last weekend at Trident Studios turned out great! The guitars are almost done! Jim [Adams] laid down some heavy crunch tones and leads. Doug [Harrington] added his brand of metal afterwards and the results sound killer! The plan now is for two or three more recording sessions for Doug to finish his leads and harmonies and for Mike [Kaufmann] to record his bass tracks. After that it is time for Steev [Esquivel] to lay down some wicked vocals."

Check out pictures from last weekend's sessions at this location.

Along with its first full-length album in over ten years, DEFIANCE is also working on putting together a DVD, tentatively titled "Decade(s) of Defiance"] that will cronicle the band's entire career from 1985 to the present. "We are working with Dave Anderson from Rokhedz to capture the DEFIANCE album recording sessions as part of the DVD," the group writes on its web site. "The DVD, along with the album, will be released by Corporate Punishment Records and is planned for a 2007 release."

Part of the so-called "second wave" of Bay Area thrash (which also included the likes of FORBIDDEN, VIO-LENCE, DEATH ANGEL, and TESTAMENT),DEFIANCE officially disbanded in 1993 after the departure of vocalist Steev Esquivel (who would go on to form SKINLAB, and later RE:IGNITION),while the remaining members, with the addition of vocalist Dave Godfrey White (HEATHEN),formed INNER THRESHOLD, which would also eventually disband.

In 2005, rumors of a reformed DEFIANCE sent waves of interest through the burgeoning thrash metal community until it was finally confirmed that the band had in fact reunited and were at work on their first new material in over a decade.

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