Act Of Defiance Streaming New Track "Refrain And Re-Fracture"

In a time of endless sub-genre classifications, Act Of Defiance's debut offering simply delivers 100% in-your-face, uncompromising heavy metal. The scathing debut, "Birth and The Burial," is set for an August 21st release via Metal Blade Records and pre-order bundle packages are now available at this location.

Today a new song also comes online: "Refrain and Re-Fracture" can be heard below. Shawn Drover (drums) states:

"'Refrain and Re-Fracture' is a great example of using musical dynamics in a heavy metal song. All of us in Act Of Defiance have always been fans of cool acoustic/classical song intro’s before the metal assault kick’s in, so when Chris presented this song to me I immediately loved the tune.

"Henry Derek really did a great job here as well by using his range a bit more as a singer, going from brutal singing to injecting some more melodic phrasing within the song as well, but still sounding very powerful. 'Refrain and Re-Fracture' is just another great example of showing that 'Birth and The Burial' is certainly not a one dimensional heavy metal record.”

Chris Broderick further adds: "'Refrain and Re-fracture's' creation started off with the classical guitar of all instruments hahaha. I wanted a moody beginning into a heavy verse with each instrument entering and slowly building the tension until the transition to the verse. At this point a tempo change was needed for something more fast paced and aggressive with heavy vocals (Henry definitely delivered on that!!!).

"For the chorus I definitely was looking for as much melody as possible but still heavy in nature. The bridge to the solo and the solo has a much more modern feel to them utilizing polyrhythms to create groove and an open canvas for my solo. As for the solo, hell I just hope people like what I did hahahha. Overall I feel this song does a great job of showing how diverse Act Of Defiance can be while still staying firmly rooted in metal!"

Act Of Defiance consists of Chris Broderick, Shawn Drover, Matt Bachand, and Henry Derek. If you missed it, the music video for previously released song "Throwback" can also be heard at this location.