New ACT OF DEFIANCE Material Is 'Sounding Very Strong' And 'Heavy'

ACT OF DEFIANCE, the band featuring former MEGADETH members Shawn Drover (drums) and Chris Broderick (guitar), alongside ex-SCAR THE MARTYR singer Henry Derek Bonner, and SHADOWS FALL‘s Matt Bachand (bass), is continuing work on material for its sophomore album, tentatively due before the end of the year. Drover says in a new Facebook post: “I completed my song #3 today, and I’m really happy with it!!!! Chris is working on various stages of completion of five songs and Matt is working on a few things as well. As we get finished songs to Henry, he will be working on lyrics/melodies, as he has already completed one song and has other lyrical ideas brewing, so it won’t be long now before most of these songs will be written, which by all accounts thus far, the material is sounding very strong, in my opinion (and HEAVY, of course!!).”

Broderick told Maximum Threshold Radio last year that he was “really excited to be able to have the full band contributing equally” to the songwriting process for the next ACT OF DEFIANCE album. He explained: “Because Matt was such a late addition to the band, all he got to do is record his bass lines [for 2015’s ‘Birth And The Burial’ effort]. So he’ll be able to write on this CD, and then we kind of know each other a lot better now than we did, and so we kind of know how to contribute with each other. It’s more of a working relationship, whereas last time it was, ‘All right, here’s our format. This is the way we’re gonna do it, because we’ve gotta get it out.'”

Chris also talked about the importance of getting everybody’s input and allowing every musician to contribute his ideas to the final product. He said: “The main thing is not to bicker and argue. I think you have to put your ego aside and just realize that everybody’s opinion is valid. There is no one best way to write a song or to make a band the way that the band should come across or the way that people should act. It’s not for any one of us to try and do that.”

“Birth And The Burial” was released on August 21, 2015 via Metal Blade Records.

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net