After crushing crowds with Sanguisugabogg, Despised Icon and Corpse Pile, next month, Defeated Sanity are hitting the road on their first U.S. headlining tour in support of their latest Billboard-demolishing album Chronicles of Lunacy. During this run across both U.S. coasts, the innovators of brutal death metal will perform Chronicles of Lunacy in its entirety, along with other fan favorites from their discography. Joining them on all 27 dates are Inferi and Organectomy.
As they gear up for the start of their U.S. tour next month, today, Defeated Sanity are releasing a new drum playthrough. While the song brings Chronicles of Lunacy to a horrifying end, “Heredity Violated” further cements their place on the throne as the most technically advanced band in brutal death metal.
“This song was based on a Latin-type rhythm and fused with a brutal riff”, Defeated Sanity drummer Lille Gruber says. “It also has a cool dotted note verses even cymbal thing going on”.
Watch the official drum playthrough for “Heredity Violated” below:
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Defeated Sanity 2026 U.S. Tour Dates
with Inferi and Organectomy + Excrescence, Scasm and Horrific Vision on select dates
April 16 - Anaheim, CA @ Parish (HOB)* [TICKETS]
April 17 - Fresno, CA @ Fulton 55* [TICKETS]
April 18 - Santa Rosa, CA @ The California* [TICKETS]
April 19 - Sacramento, CA @ Starlet* [TICKETS]
April 21 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon* [TICKETS]
April 22 - Portland, OR @ Dante's* [TICKETS]
April 23 - Boise, ID @ Shredder* [TICKETS]
April 24 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Ace's High Saloon* [TICKETS]
April 25 - Denver, CO @ HQ* [TICKETS]
April 27 - Milwaukee, WI @ X-Ray Arcade* [TICKETS]
April 28 - West Chicago, IL @ Social Club+ [TICKETS]
April 29 - Indianapolis, IN @ Black Circle+ [TICKETS]
April 30 - Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop+ [TICKETS]
May 1 - Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall+ [TICKETS]
May 2 - Clifton, NJ @ Dingbatz+ [TICKETS]
May 3 - Baltimore, MD @ Metro+ [TICKETS]
May 4 - Raleigh, NC @ Chapel of Bones+ [TICKETS]
May 5 - Jacksonville, FL @ The Albatross+ [TICKETS]
May 6 - Tampa, FL @ Orpheum+ [TICKETS]
May 7 - Orlando, FL @ Conduit+ [TICKETS]
May 8 - Pensacola, FL @ Handlebar+ [TICKETS]
May 9 - Houston, TX @ Pub 529^ [TICKETS]
May 11 - Dallas, TX @ Three Links^ [TICKETS]
May 12 - Austin, TX @ Come and Take It Live^ [TICKETS]
May 13 - Lubbock, TX @ Jakes^ [TICKETS]
May 15 - Phoenix, AZ @ Nile Underground^ [TICKETS]
May 16 - Las Vegas, NV @ Backstage Bar^ [TICKETS]
* Excrescence
+ Scasm
^ Horrific Visions
Chronicles of Lunacy is out now on Season of Mist.
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The drum playthrough for “Heredity Violated” was created by Obscenery Films.
While it still hits from every odd angle, Chronicles of Lunacy does draw a jagged red line back to Defeated Sanity's brutal origins. After all, the band now share a label with their namesake. In true, DS fashion, the first song written for this album was "Heredity Violated", a headbanging grand finale that never stops chugging. "This album isn't as tough on the brain as the last two", says new guitarist Vaughn Stoffey, whose chunky riffs whip "Accelerating the Rot" into the fastest song in the band's canon. "It's rawer and more straightforward, which gets back to what fans love about Psalms of the Moribund".
To dig up the sheer brutality that long-time fans have come to crave, Defeated Sanity returned to Thousand Cave Studios. New York City's most vile underground hotspot also served as the excavation site for the Billboard-charting The Sanguinary Impetus, which shoveled a fresh layer of dirt over the "polished" production of Passages into Deformity. But the band encouraged producer Colin Marston to get down and dirty with Chronicles of Lunacy. "We still wanted some of the high fidelity that you hear on modern death metal records", Schmidt says, "but this album has the same crushing low-end as Psalms or Chapters of Repugnance".
The band execute this two-headed approach to monstrous effect on "Condemned to Vascular Famine". At just under six minutes, the song delivers the longest ass beating on Chronicles of Lunacy. At times, all four members sound like they're climbing up the walls in separate asylums, but after slipping in a brief nod to Bram Stoker's Dracula, the band come slamming down into the album's ugliest breakdown.
"That's one of our favorites", the band says. "It lands at a crossroad of the DS sound that we ended up with on Chronicles of Lunacy. Even though it gets pretty fucking weird at times, there's still an emphasis on heavy, straight-up slamming"
None of their albums are ever going to follow a straight line, but on Chronicles of Lunacy, Defeated Sanity return to sheer brutality.
Lineup
Josh Welshman - Vocals
Vaughn Stoffey - Guitars
Jacob Schmidt - Bass
Lille Gruber - Drums
Guest musicians
Danny Nelson and Paolo Paguntalan provide backup vocals on "Amputationsdrang" and "Accelerating the Rot"
Recording Studio
Thousand Caves Studio in January 2024.
Production
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Colin Marston.
Produced by Colin Marston and Defeated Sanity.
Cover Art
Artwork by Jon Zig
Title lettering by Liz Schmidt
Layout by Alex Eckman-Lawn
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Booking
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