DEFIANCE - Metal Mind To Reissue Product Of Society With Bonus Material
June 16, 2008, 16 years ago
Metal Mind Productions is re-releasing Product Of Society – the debut album by DEFIANCE. This thrash metal band formed in 1985 by Brad Bowers (guitar), Mike Kaufmann (bass) and Matt Vander Ende (drums) belonged to the San Francisco thrash fraternity of the late 80's, along with bands like TESTAMENT, EXODUS and FORBIDDEN. Product Of Society was produced by ANNIHILATOR guitarist Jeff Waters and managed to attract attention in the thrash community. It was the only album by Defiance to feature Ken Elkington on vocals and had cover art by Ed Repka.
This classic LP taken from Roadrunner Records’ archives will be available in a new digipak edition with five demo and three live tracks as a bonus. Limited to 2000 copies, digitally remastered using 24-Bit process on golden disc. Product Of Society will be available on 21st July 2008 in Europe and 2nd September 2008 in North America (via MVD).
Tracklist: 'The Fault', 'Death Machine', 'Product Of Society', 'Forgotten', 'Lock Jaw', 'Insomnia', 'Deadly Intentions', 'Aftermath', 'Tribulation', 'Hypothermia'.
Bonus tracks: 'Hypothermia' (demo), 'Aftermath' (demo), 'Deadly Intentions' (demo), 'MIA (Forgotten)' (demo), 'Product Of Society' (demo), 'Riff Raff' (live), Matt's drum solo (live), 'Checkmate Into Skits' - 'Illusions' (live).
