DEFIANCE Announce New Line-Up
December 17, 2009, 14 years ago
Oakland-based thrashers DEFIANCE have issued the following update:
"With our first show since 1994 just a couple of days away, we wanted to take this opportunity to let you all know about some pretty major changes in the line-up of the band.With our new album The Prophecy completed, and released on Candlelight Records, both Mark (Hernandez) and Steev (Esquivel) have moved on to concentrate on their primary bands, FORBIDDEN and SKINLAB respectively. We want to publicly thank them both for putting in all the hard work and time to help us finish the album we dedicated together in the memory of our dear friend and guitarist Doug Harrington. We wish both of them continued success in whatever lies ahead for them.
We are very excited to announce the new line up of Defiance for 2010 and beyond. Taking on Doug and Glen's parts on guitar, we welcome Shawn Bozarth on guitar! Taking over the singing duties, we are stoked to announce the addition of Keven Albert (formerly with KAOS). Now manning the drum thrown to play all of Mark and Matt's insane parts, we are very stoked to have Andrew Byrne joining the band!
We will be playing this Saturday night at Blake's on Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley CA. Come on out and check us out if you are in the area."
Photo taken by Mike Miller. From left to right: Shawn Bozarth, Mike Kaufmann, Jim Adams, Andrew Byrne, Keven Albert.
