A country that was not in my favored list for death metal bands is Germany. And I say “was” because I haven’t heard any death metal band before that made me feel this way. Well still it is not one of my favorite countries, yet there are two bands that blow my mind. And one of them is Obscura. These days I found the second one. Defeated Sanity is a technical brutal death metal...Read More

German death metal quartet Defeated Sanity have not strayed from their formula on their fourth album, Passages Into Deformity. They're still a hybrid of early Cryptopsy's blinding technicality and Suffocation's NYHC-esque breakdowns-- "slam parts," to those in the know. There are plenty of bands that attempt this fusion, but few do it with such care and precision. Defeated Sanity...Read More

Here's one thing Defeated Sanity's Passages of Deformity has going for itself: It's devoid of song titles that only a death metal band would fall prey to, i.e. "Consumed by Repugnance," "Engulfed in Excruciation," "Calculated Barbarity," each of which appeared on their 2010 Chapters of Repugnance. Death metal bands love song titles that have more syllables that...Read More

Have I raised an ale lately to German death metal? Not sure, but I actually just did (which was kind of embarrassing) to make up for any lack of froth-hoisting I've done in recent months towards our comrades overseas who are keeping it sick, such as DEFEATED SANITY, who here get it right on their fourth full length, from the technical death/grind to the looming slow-motion sludge/death (the...Read More

Brutal Technical Death Metal. Say it with me. These are four of my favorite words that when put together, help describe one of my favorite bands of the last decade – Defeated Sanity. On their latest offering, Passages Into Deformity, their styles have coalesced to create a sound that demands immediate attention – while also rewarding multiple listens. Defeated Sanity is, at its...Read More

The career of German Technical/Brutal Death Metal quartet DEFEATED SANITY spans nearly twenty years, yet in the last five years the bands productivity has reached prolific levels of turn out. New album ‘Passages Into Deformity’ marks the bands fourth full length release and sees them return with more gore, filth and nihilistic messages for all. Starting rather aptly with the crushing...Read More

Brace yourself; Passages Into Deformity, the latest release from Germany's Defeated Sanity, isn't an easy listen and it begins to take its toll about a minute into the first track. "Initiation" is just that: an introduction to the aural assault that is brutal death metal, with a bombardment of machine-gun drumming and dissonant riffs. Newest member Konstantin Lühring's vocal...Read More

Here’s the new album of DEFEATED SANITY, and if you listen to this CD and not like it, unfortunately, I need to tell you something unpleasant: you really don’t deserve to be called an extreme fucking bloody metal fan. These guys are not exactly beginners and everyone here knows their work, after all the band is already on active since 1996. The time on the road and the experience...Read More

German brutal death metal band Defeated Sanity don’t need many introductions. Having a sound that is built on early Cannibal Corpse, but with a ridiculous amount of added brutality a la Disgorge, their blend of slam and technical death metal is delightful to fans of either genre. All of their releases have been met with at least some degree of acclaim, so their fourth album Passages Into...Read More

Here’s an experiment for you to try at home: pick up a copy of this album and take it out to your car stereo. Turn it up as loud as you can listen to it without causing permanent damage to your hearing. Now, see if you can make it through the album’s slightly over a minute long opener “Initiation” without physically feeling your bowels loosen. If you can, you’re made...Read More

It has been nearly three years since Defeated Sanity's last album hit the shelves. 2013 sees the German band's latest dense and nearly impenetrable collection of tunes arriving via Passages Into Deformity. And long-time fans have plenty to be excited about. Passages Into Deformity is not a radical departure from 2010's Chapters of Repugnance, but there are a few noteworthy changes. For...Read More

Technical Death Metal you have in one hand and in the other you have Technical Brutal Death Metal. In terms of brutality, the scale favors the latter. As obvious as that might seem even a style like progressive metal can be brutalized if applied the right way and I believe “Passages Into Deformity” accomplished that fairly nice. With such a effort coming from DEFEATED SANITY,...Read More

Death metal has slowly begun to reign as the staple diet in the German cuisine for the metal kind, with brutal death metal rising as a new delicacy. While this sub-genre has long been criticized for being to hard to digest or rather sounding a bit too brutal and noisy, there are bands that have been fighting this misconception since the mid 90s. One of them is Defeated Sanity. This German band has...Read More

Defeated Sanity have always been one of the more highly regarded “brutal death” bands, with good reason. In a subgenre populated by clones fixated on ripping each other off, these German death metallers have managed to consistently push out technical, heavy but also surprisingly varied and carefully layered releases. Granted, they’ve never been a band known for pushing...Read More

Each time Defeated Sanity releases a new album it's like underground death metal gets a collective boner that perks up to see how high they set the bar again. This was especially true with Psalms of the Moribund which was leaps and bounds ahead of their debut Prelude to the Tragedy. With Chapters of Repugnance they went balls out brutal, it went to 11 on all levels, they even had famed Disgorge...Read More

2013 is already shaping up to be quite the brutal year for Willowtip Records; not only do they have a new album from Wormed on the way, but they’re also releasing a skull-caving gem of German heaviness in the form of Passages into Deformity, the fourth album from Defeated Sanity. These Berliners seemingly have it all; the furious technicality, the over-the-top heaviness and the...Read More

Fixtures of the Brutal Death Metal scene since their 2004 debut full-length “Prelude to the Tragedy,” Germany’s DEFEATED SANITY lithely mix technicality and brutality in the vein of New York’s SUFFOCATION or California’s DISGORGE, and while the band’s follow-up records, 2007’s “Psalms of the Moribund” and 2010’s “Chapters of...Read More

For the vast majority of us slaves to metal, blasting hideously incomprehensible noise in a desire to piss our parents off as much as possible was part and parcel of growing up. But what happens when your old man pops his head round the door and instead of taking his belt to you, not only asks for the volume to be increased, but enquires if you fancy forming a band? Apocryphal the above tale...Read More